Ooroser 25, 1918] 
LIEUTENANT HERBERT DOUGLAS 
TAYLOR 
LikuTENANT Herpert Douc.ias Taytor, M. C., 
U. S. Army, associate in pathology and bacte- 
riology of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical 
Research, died on October 7, 1918, at the age 
of thirty. 
Lieutenant Taylor was a graduate of St. 
Johns College, Annapolis, Maryland, and re- 
ceived his degree in medicine at the Johns 
Hopkins Hospital in 1914. During the three 
and one half years of his association with the 
Rockefeller Institute, he had made many im- 
portant studies and published several papers 
especially relating to malignant tumors, tuber- 
culosis and bio-chemical problems involved in 
the safer and more effective use of antiseptics 
in military surgery. Dr. Taylor was one of 
the group of younger workers at the Rocke- 
feller Institute who at large personal sacrifice 
have chosen the pathway of research and in the 
emergencies of war have bent every energy 
to practical medical aspects of military serv- 
ice. Commissioned as first lieutenant soon 
after the entrance of this country into the war, 
he gave himself without reserve to the instruc- 
tion of medical officers of the U. S. Army and 
others at the War Demonstration Hospital and 
in the Institute Laboratory courses, in those 
phases of scientific medicine of which he was 
master. 
In the course of his duties at the hospital he 
apparently became infected with influenza 
with the immediate supervention of pneu- 
monia, from which he died on the third day. 
He was a man of lofty ideals, of boundless en- 
thusiasm in his tasks and an inspiring com- 
rade. Ta MP, 
SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 
APPOINTMENTS AT THE NEW YORK STATE 
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AT COR- 
NELL UNIVERSITY 
At the New York State College of Agricul- 
ture at Cornell University Ezra Dwight San- 
derson has been appointed to be professor of 
rural organization. He was graduated from 
the Michigan Agricultural College with the 
degree of bachelor of science in the late 
nineties. He spent a brief time immediately 
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after graduating at Oornell as a special stu- 
dent in entomology and for some years there- 
after was engaged in entomological work in 
Delaware, Texas, and New Hampshire. In 
1907 he was made director of the New Hamp- 
shire Agricultural Experiment Station, which 
position he held until 1910 when he left to be- 
come dean of the College of Agriculture of 
West Virginia University and director of the 
West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion. In June, 1915, he resigned the latter 
position to enter the graduate school of the 
University of Chicago as a student in sociol- 
ogy and he was subsequently made a fellow in 
sociology at the University of Chicago. He is 
a member of the Society of Sigma Xi, one 
time president of the Association of Economic 
Entomologists and fellow of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science. 
His work at Cornell will lie broadly in the 
field of rural social organization. This is the 
beginning of definite provision at the State 
College for the social problems in country life. 
Homer OC. Thompson has been appointed to 
be professor of vegetable gardening. Professor 
Thompson was graduated from the Ohio State 
University with the degree of bachelor of sci- 
ence in horticulture in June, 1909. Prior to 
this he had been employed in the United States 
Department of Agriculture in experimental 
gardens and had charge of experimental work 
on rice lands in South Carolina. During his 
last year in college he held the position of as- 
sistant in horticulture and subsequently held 
positions as assistant horticulturist in the 
Mississippi Experiment Station and assistant 
professor of horticulture in the Mississippi 
Agricultural College and professor of horti- 
culture at Clemsen College, South Carolina; 
in 1911 he was appointed assistant horticul- 
turist in the United States Department of 
Agriculture, and in 1912 was given charge of 
the truck crop production projects of the de- 
partment and he has had responsibility for 
them since that time. In 1913 he was pro- 
moted to the position of horticulturist in the 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
Professor Thompson has had opportunity to 
study the production of vegetables in prac- 
