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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
Tue following officers of the Medical Corps, 
U. S. A., have been promoted from major to 
lieutenant-colonel: EKdward J. G. Beardsley, 
Philadelphia; Thomas P. Lloyd, Shreveport, 
La.; James A. Mattison, Hot Springs, 8. D.; 
Joseph Sailer, Philadelphia; Oliver H. Camp- 
bell, St. Louis; Bertram F. Alden, San Fran- 
cisco; Walter W. Crawford, Hattiesburg, 
Miss.; Jonathan E. Burns, Baltimore; Charles 
'N. B. Camac, New York; William C. Le- 
Compte, Bristol, Pa.; Harry T. Summersgill, 
San Francisco; Charles H. Schlichter, Eliza- 
beth, N. J.; Edward W. Pinkham, New York; 
William J. Bell, Washington, D. C.; Warren 
A. Dennis, St. Paul; Joshua, C. Hubbard, 
John H. Blackburn, Bowling Green, Ky.; Ed- 
mund J. Doering, Chicago; John E. Jennings, 
Brooklyn; William W. Percy, Rochester, N. Y.; 
John H. Blackburn. Bowling Green, Ky.; Ed- 
mund Moss, New Orleans; Henry R. Brown, 
Albuquerque, N. M.; Robert Smart, Coronado, 
Calif.; Herbert H. Smith, Highland, Kan. 
Cotonet Epwarp L. Munson, for twenty- 
five years an officer of the Medical Corps, 
U. S. A., has been promoted to the rank of 
brigadier-general, and with the promotion 
selected for duty on the general staff. The 
new commission is in the line of the army. 
General Munson is the third medical officer of 
the army to be given general officer’s rank for 
duty outside the Medical Department of the 
army, the previous appointees being Generals 
Ainsworth and Leonard Wood. 
Recatu to the active list of Major-General 
William C. Gorgas, former Surgeon-General of 
the army, who recently was retired for age, 
and his assignment to active duty in the same 
rank of the Medical Corps has been announced 
by Secretary Baker. General Gorgas will 
complete the inspection of medical conditions 
in France and England, on which he now is 
engaged, and then will return to the United 
States to submit a report. His next assign- 
ment may take him to Italy. 
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LizuTENANT-COLONEL Frank P. UNDERHILL, 
professor of experimental medicine at Yale 
University, in charge of the New Haven Sta- 
tion, Chemical Warfare Service, has arrived 
safely overseas. Lieutenant-Colonel Under- 
hill is accompanied by the following officers 
of the station: First Lieutenants Henry D. 
Hooker, Jr., and Carl H. Greene; Second 
Lieutenants Alfred Chanutin and Arthur H. 
Smith. 
Dr. Prerre A. Fisu, professor of physiology, 
and head of the physiology department of the 
college of veterinary medicine of Cornell Uni- 
versity, has been commissioned a major in the 
Veterinary Corps, U. S. Army. He has been 
granted a leave of absence from the university 
for the duration of the war. 
Aurrep J. Larson, Ph.D. (Harvard), as- 
sistant professor of chemistry, Carleton Col- 
lege, has been in the chemical service of the 
government for a year and was recently com- 
missioned as captain. 
James Ewine, D.Se. (Aberdeen), assistant 
professor of biology, Carleton College, has 
been since a year ago in the Canadian Army 
and is at present an instructor in the Canadian 
university back of the lines with the rank of 
sergeant. ; 
Dr. Roswett P. AnciER, professor of psychol- 
ogy at Yale University, is a captain in the 
Sanitary Corps, National Army, at the Hazel- 
hurst Field Medical Research Laboratory, 
Mineola, L. I. 
Assistant Proressor Jacoss, of the zoolog- 
ical department of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, has received a captain’s commission in 
the Food Administration. 
Proressor LIGHTNER Witmer, head of the 
department of psychology at the University of 
Pennsylvania, has returned from his work with 
the Red Cross in Italy and will be on active 
duty this year. 
InrorMatTion has been received through 
private sources to the effect that Professor 
Charles Barrois, well known to many geologists 
in the United States, is still in Lille and in 
good health. His movements have been re- 
stricted and no communication was held with 
