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of the American Society of Testing Materials, 
Transactions of the American Electrochemical So- 
ciety, and many others that readily suggest them- 
selves. Through the kindness of the duPont Com- 
pany, of Wilmington, we have been able to locate 
the owners of a few of these desirable works, but as 
you can readily imagine they are very difficult to 
obtain. You will be happy to know that Dr. Ira 
Remsen has offered us his Gmelin-Kraut as a loan. 
It has occurred to me that a notice placed in the 
Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 
and also in Screncz, explaining the needs of this 
laboratory, might bring forth loans of books we 
greatly desire. If the commanding officer, Edge- 
wood Arsenal, concurs in this view, might I respect- 
fully suggest that this notice be asked for, and that 
all communications in reference to the same be 
made to the commanding officer, Edgewood Ar- 
senal? 
Colonel Walker has approved the suggestion 
and has authorized the publication of the let- 
ter. He will be glad to receive books loaned 
to the laboratory and to return them without 
damage at the end of the war. In case of dam- 
age or loss involving any or all of the books 
the Edgewood Arsenal assumes liability up to 
150 per cent. of the original price. The cost of 
packing and shipping the books to and from 
Edgewood Arsenal will be borne by the govern- 
ment. 
ENDOWMENT FOR ENGINEERING RESEARCH 
AT a joint meeting of the trustees of the 
United Engineering Society with the Engi- 
neering Foundation Board in New York on 
October 7 announcement was made that Am- 
brose Swasey of Cleveland, Ohio, had given 
the Engineering Foundation an additional 
$100,000 for endowment of engineering re- 
search. 
Mr. Swasey, who is a past-president of the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, is 
well known as a designer and builder of large 
telescopes and other optical instruments and 
fine machine tools. In 1915 he gave $200,000 
for engineering research, so that the total en- 
dowment is now $300,000. Mr. Swasey’s orig- 
inal gift made possible the establishment of 
the Engineering Foundation by the United 
Engineering Society, representing the Amer- 
ican Society of Civil Engineers, the American 
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Institute of Mining Engineers, the American 
Society of Mechanical Engineers and the 
American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 
His gifts have been inspired by his conviction 
of the necessity for research in engineering 
science not only in connection with the war 
but for keeping the United States in the fore- 
front of nations in industrial development. 
This latest gift is an expression of Mr. 
Swasey’s appreciation of the war _ service 
which the United Engineering Society and the 
Engineering Foundation have rendered to the 
country. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Dr. Veranus A. Moore, head of the New 
York State Veterinary College at Cornell Uni- 
versity, was elected president of the American 
Veterinary Medical Association at the annual 
meeting held recently in Philadelphia. 
Dr. A. E. Kenney, of Harvard University 
and the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology, has recently returned from a trip over- 
seas during the summer on special duty for 
the United States Army Signal Corps. 
LiruTenant CoLronen Winuiam H. We tc, 
of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, now at- 
tached to the surgeon-general’s staff at Wash- 
ington, is recovering from an attack of in- 
fluenza. 
Lieutenant CotoneL Tuomas R. Boaas, 
Baltimore, has been made chief medical con- 
sultant for the air service of the American 
Expeditionary Forces, attached to general 
headquarters. 
CaprTatn Mapison Bent ey is now president 
of the Aviation Examining Board, examining 
aviation recruits from New England colleges. 
Cuartes F. Brooxs has received leave of 
absence from Yale University where he was 
instructor in geography, in order to become an 
instructor in meteorology in the Signal 
Service. 
Mayor Genera WituiaAm C. Goraas, who 
has now returned from his inspection trip to 
France, has received from Secretary Baker a 
letter, which has been made a part of his 
military record, expressing the appreciation 
