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A conference has been arranged between 
government and laboratory zoologists for the 
purpose of securing closer cooperation between 
the two groups. The Bureaus of Entomology, 
Fisheries, Animal Industry and the Biological 
Survey will present papers giving their needs 
and plans that can be furthered by such co- 
operation. The discussion will be led by Pro- 
fessors ©. A. Kofoid, C. E. McClung, J. G. 
Needham and H. B. Ward. Through the 
kindness of the American Naturalists this con- 
ference will be held on Saturday afternoon, 
December 28. 
The Headquarters hotel for Section F will be 
the Hotel Rennert, Liberty and Saratoga 
Streets. The association is preparing a list of 
boarding and rooming houses. This list may be 
consulted at registration headquarters. 
The Biologists’ smoker will be held following 
the opening exercises of the association on the 
evening of December 26, in the Hotel Rennert. 
The Naturalists’ dinner is on Saturday even- 
ing. : 
As usual when meeting with the American 
Society of Zoologists, the program is in the 
hands of the latter society. Papers accom- 
panied by abstracts of not more than 250 words 
will be accepted for the program up to Decem- 
ber 1 as in other years. These should not be 
sent to Captain Caswell Grave but to the acting 
secretary. W. C. ALLes, 
Acting Secretary, Section F, 
Acting Secretary, American Society of 
Zoologists 
LAKE ForEst COLLEGE, 
LAKE Forest, ILLINOIS 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Dr. CHartEes R. VAN Hiss, president of the 
University of Wisconsin and eminent as a 
geologist, died on November 19, at the age of 
sixty-one years. 
At the request of the board of regents of the 
University of Nebraska, the War Department 
has permitted Major Samuel Avery, chief of 
the University Relations Branch, Chemical 
Warfare Service, to resign his commission, in 
order to resume his duties as chancellor of the 
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university, on December 1. Major Victor Len- 
her, in addition to his other duties in the Re- 
lations Section, now takes charge of the work 
relinquished. 
Dr. WitiiamM N. Bere, of the Pathological 
Division, Bureau of Animal Industry, Wash- 
ington, D. C., has been appointed captain in 
the Sanitary Corps, with orders to proceed to 
the Yale Army Laboratory School, New Haven, 
Conn. 
Dr. Atonzo E. Taytor has been called abroad 
in the interest of the Food Administration. 
Proressor H. Gmron WELLS, of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago and director of the Otho 
S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute, left Chicago 
on October 30 for special medical work under 
the auspices of the Red Cross organization in 
Roumania and Serbia. Dr. Wells has already 
spent several months in Roumania on a sim- 
ilar mission. 
L. E. Catt, professor of agronomy in the 
Kansas State Agricultural College, has been 
invited to go to France to become specialist in 
grain crops for the army overseas educational 
commission. The commission is to have 
charge of all educational work overseas among 
American soldiers during the war and during 
demobilization. 
R. E. Tuttoss, Ph.D. (Harvard, 718), has 
completed a year’s work as consulting psychol- 
ogist at the U. S. Naval Radio School, Cam- 
bridge, Mass. With the use of laboratory ap- 
paratus and technique, study has been made 
of the progress of some hundreds of students 
of radio telegraphy. Dr. Tulloss and Lieu- 
tenant W. E. Snyder, director of education at 
the Cambridge School, have collaborated in 
the preparation of a text-book for radio opera- 
ting instruction. 
Proressor H. F. Moors, of the engineering 
experiment station of the university of Ili- 
nois, has been appointed by the National Re- 
search Council chairman of the committee to 
investigate the fatigue phenomena of metals. 
FREDERICK STARR, associate professor of 
anthropology in the University of Chicago, is 
