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Dr. Rosert S. McEwen, on leave of absence 
from the department of zoology in Oberlin 
College is in government service at the Army 
Medical School at Washington, as instructor 
in parasitology. 
Proressor M. F. Cootzoucs, of the depart- 
ment of chemistry, Colorado School of Mines, 
is in Washington on leave of absence and is 
engaged in war work at the Bureau of Mines. 
Dr. H. M. Loomis, formerly of the Bureau 
of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture, has 
been made chief inspector of the sardine can- 
neries of Maine and Massachusetts, for the 
Food Administration. 
Mr. H. M. Freepurn has resigned as assist- 
ant engineer of the Pennsylvania State De- 
partment of Health to become associate with 
the engineering staff of Wallace and Tiernan 
Co., New York City, manufacturers of chlo- 
rine control apparatus and sanitary engineer- 
ing specialties. 
Proressor R. EH. Canpweut has left his work 
as chief of the department of dairy husbandry 
at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, to 
take charge of the research and educational 
department recently organized by the Blatch- 
ford Calf Meal Company of Waukegan, Illi- 
nois. His work will consist mainly in the 
conducting of feeding experiments in an effort 
to discover the ingredients necessary to pro- 
duce the best milk substitute feed for im- 
mature animals. 
Tue last number of the Journal of In- 
dustrial Chemistry among its personal notes 
records the following changes from educa- 
tional to industrial work: Professor Benton 
Dales, formerly head of the chemistry depart- 
ment of the University of Nebraska, research 
chemist for the B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, 
Ohio; Mr. F. W. Bruckmiller, formerly assist- 
ant professor of chemistry at the University 
of Kansas, chemist for the Standard Oil Co. 
(Indiana), at Sugar Creek Mo.; Professor 
J. B. Rather, head of the department of agri- 
cultural chemistry in the University of Ar- 
kansas, chemist with the Standard Oil Com- 
pany, New York; Dr. M. L. Crossley, acting 
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head of the department of chemistry at Wes- 
leyan University, chief chemist for the Calco 
Chemical Co., Bound Brook, N. J.; Miss Jessie 
E. Minor, associate professor of chemistry at 
Goucher College, chief chemist for the Ham- 
merschlag Paper Mills, Garfield, N. J.; Mr. 
Carleton B. Edwards, head of the chemistry 
department at Guilford College, chemical en- 
gineer in smokeless powder with E. I. de Pont 
de Nemours and Co. Similar changes are re- 
ported in Science almost every week. It 
would be in the interest of higher education to 
record the salaries received in the educational 
and in the industrial positions, and the time 
and facilities allowed for research work. 
“ QHEMISTRY and the war” was the subject 
of an illustrated lecture delivered to the stu- 
dents at Lafayette College on October 23 by 
Colonel Wilder D. Bancroft, professor of phys- 
ical chemistry at Cornell University, now of 
the Chemical Gas Warfare Service. 
Tue Ingleby Lectures for 1918 before the 
University of Birmingham were given by Dr. 
Peter Thompson, professor of anatomy in the 
university, on October 17 and 24. The sub- 
ject was “Some problems in embryology.” 
THE Geographical Association has founded 
a memorial lectureship in memory of the late 
Professor Herbertson, and M. Schrader deliy- 
ered the first lecture in Oxford on November 
5. M. Schrader is well known by his Atlas de 
géographie historique, and his continuation 
of the Atlas wniverselle of Vivien de S. Martin, 
and for his more recent work in the re-affores- 
tation of French mountain slopes. 
TueE Prince of Wales has accepted the posi- 
tion of patron of the Ramsay Memorial Fund, 
founded in November, 1916, to raise £100,000 
as a memorial to the late Sir William Ramsay. 
‘The committee has already raised £37,000, and 
subscriptions from oversea committees will 
probably bring the total to £50,000. It is pro- 
posed to raise the remaining £50,000 by a mil- 
lion shilling fund, now opened with a donation 
of 1,000 shillings from the Prince of Wales. 
Already over 10,500 shillings have been pri- 
vately subscribed. The fund will provide Ram- 
say Research Fellowships and a Ramsay Me- 
