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ton, has been commissioned captain in the ni- 
trate division of the Army Ordnance Depart- 
ment. 
Dr. J. M. Lewis, associate professor of bot- 
any at the University of Texas, has been com- 
missioned a captain in the Sanitary Corps and 
has reported at New Haven, Conn. 
H. C. Youne, of the botanical department, 
Michigan Agricultural College, has been given 
indefinite leave of absence, having been ap- 
pointed second lieutenant in the Sanitary 
Corps with headquarters for the present at the 
- Yale Army Medical School. 
E. R. Kine, assistant professor of entomol- 
ogy at Cornell University, has'been commis- 
sioned a second lieutenant in the Aviation 
Corps. 
Ross A. Baker, chief gas officer, Camp Pike, 
Ark., has been made officer in charge of gas 
training for Chief Gas Officers, Army Gas 
School, Humphreys, Va. Mr. Baker was for- 
merly assistant professor in chemistry at the 
University of Minnesota. 
Oar P. Jenkins, assistant professor of eco- 
nomie geology of the State College of Wash- 
ington, has been appointed geologist to the 
Arizona State Bureau of Mines, Tucson, Ariz. 
The first geological work to be done will be the 
preparation of a general geologic map of the 
entire state. 
G. D. Caty, chief chemist of the fertilizer 
control laboratory at the Louisiana Agricul- 
tural Station, has been appointed assistant di- 
rector of the North Louisiana Station at Cal- 
houn. 
Mr. ArtHur Lowensrtemy, for many years a 
fellow of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, formerly technical di- 
rector of Morris and Co., and lately a consult- 
ing chemical engineer of Chicago, has recently 
been elected vice-president of Wilson and Co. 
Proressor JoHN WEINzIRL has returned to 
the University of Washington at Seattle, after 
spending a year’s leave of absence in study at 
the Harvard Medical School, where he received 
the Dr.P.H. degree. He was also engaged in 
the food poisoning investigation directed by 
Dr. M. J. Rosenau, taking up the special prob- 
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lem of the microorganisms found in canned 
foods. 
Proressor H. OC. H. Carpenter, the presi- 
dent of the Institute of Metals, London, has 
been nominated to fill the office for a further 
year. 
Dr. H. S. Hete-Suaw and Signor Marconi 
have been elected honorary fellows of the So- 
ciety of Engineers, London. 
We learn from Nature that Sir John Mar- 
shall, director-general of archeology in India, 
has, in consequence of illness, been granted 
leave of absence, during which his deputy will 
be Dr. Spooner, superintendent of archeology, 
Eastern Circle. 
Ar the request of the rector of the National 
University of Mexico, Dr. N. Leon, professor 
of anthropology, has been appointed the repre- 
sentative of Mexico in the Congress de Amer- 
icanistas. which is to convene at Rio de 
Janeiro in June, 1919. 
Nature states that the council of the South 
African Association for the Advancement of 
Science has resolved to institute a Sir David 
Gill memorial fund, to accumulate for a num- 
ber of years until an amount has been raised 
adequate for some purpose to be decided upon. 
Mr. R. T. A. Innes, Union Observatory, Johan- 
nesburg, is the secretary and treasurer of the 
fund. 
Tue Training Camp for the Chemical War- 
fare Service, now under construction at Lake- 
hurst, N. J., has been designated “Camp Ken- 
drick,” in honor of the late Colonel Henry L. 
Kendrick, who, after service as a commissioned 
officer, served as professor of chemistry, min- 
eralogy and geology at the U. S. Military 
Academy from 1857 until his retirement from 
active service in 1880, 
Proressor Davin Ernest Lantz, assistant 
biologist in the Biological Survey, United 
States Department of Agriculture, died of 
pneumonia on October 7, at his home in Wash- 
ington, D. C. He was engaged chiefly in in- 
vestigations of the economic relations of mam- 
mals and was the author of many reports and 
special papers on this subject. 
