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tional Mission at a faculty convocation of the 
University of Michigan. Those thus honored 
are: Dr. Arthur E. Shipley, the Rev. Edward 
W. Walker, Sir Henry Miers, Sir Henry 
Jones and Dr. John Joly. The degree of doc- 
tor of letters was conferred on Miss Caroline 
Spurgeon and Miss Rose Sidgwick. 
In recognition of his distinguished services 
in behalf of military sanitation, Major Gen- 
eral William CO. Gorgas, until recently Surgeon 
General United States Army, has been made 
a grand officer of the Order of the Crown of 
Italy. The ceremony of presentation took 
place on November 5, in the office of the Sur- 
geon General, the order being presented by 
Major General Emilio Guglielmotti, military 
attaché of the Royal Italian Embassy. 
Ty addition to the silver service which was 
given to Dr. M. C. Whitaker on his retirement 
from the presidency of the Chemists’ Club, an 
illuminated memorial, designed by Mr. Ed- 
ward B. Edwards, has also been presented to 
him. The center is a Latin text written by 
Professor McCrea, of Columbia University, 
and the border decoration consists of portraits 
of Gerber, Bacon, Lully and Paracelsus in the 
four corners and alchemistie symbols worked 
into a decorative design. 
Dr. FRANK SCHLESINGER, director of the 
Allegheny Observatory, chief of the Depart- 
ment of Aeronautical Instruments, Engineer- 
ing Division, Bureau of Aircraft Production, 
at Dayton, Ohio, has been elected a member 
of the Societa Spettrocopisti Italiani. 
Mr. WibuiaAM DEC. RaveneEL has been placed 
in charge of the administration of the National 
Museum, with the title of administrative assist- 
ant to the secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution, and in addition to the general duties 
of that office has been designated director of 
the Arts and Industries branch of the mu- 
seum. He is a native of South Carolina, was 
educated at Union College, and has been con- 
nected with the museum since 1902. For 
many years he served as assistant in the United 
States Bureau of Fisheries, in charge of 
fish culture, and was acting commissioner at 
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various times from 1896 to 1902. He repre- 
sented the Bureau of Fisheries and the Na- 
tional Museum at all national and interna- 
tional expositions for many years, and was 
secretary of the United States Government 
Board of the Panama-Pacific Exposition at 
San Francisco in 1915. 
Mr. Epwin H. Pacennart, hydrographic and 
geodetic engineer of the U. S. Coast and 
Geodetic Survey, has been transferred to the 
Corps of Engineers (Reserve) of the army, 
with the rank of captain. 
Mr. Epwarp P. Barruert, formerly as- 
sistant professor of chemistry at Pomona Col- 
lege, Claremont, Cal., has been commissioned 
captain in the military intelligence branch of 
the Army. 
Dr. Tuomas Buck, assistant professor of 
mathematics at the University of California, 
has been commissioned a first lieutenant in 
the ordnance department of the army, and will 
be located in Washington doing research work 
in ballistics. 
Dr. C. A. BrautLecHT, professor of chem- 
istry in the Florida College for Women, has 
been called into the Sanitary Corps as first 
lieutenant. He is stationed at the Rockefeller 
Institute for Medical Research in New York 
City. 
Mr. H. Lyte Sirs, instructor in mathe- 
matics at Princeton University for the past 
two years, is now in the office of Major F. R. 
Moulton, of the Ordnance Department at 
Washington. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 
NEWS 
THE trustees of the New York Polyclinic 
Hospital have proposed to transfer the prop- 
erty of that institution to Columbia Univer- 
sity, to be maintained for the public service 
and for advanced instruction and research in 
medicine and surgery. Polyclinic Hospital, 
which was built in 1912, has a capacity of 300 
beds, with ample provision for private pa- 
tients. It is due to Dr. John A. Wyeth and 
