NovEMBER 22, 1918] 
now in Guatemala, where he is conducting spe- 
cial researches in his field. 
Mr. Frank OC. Baker, curator of the Mu- 
seum of Natural History, and Professor Frank 
Smith, of the department of zoology, Univer- 
sity of Illinois, have been engaged during the 
past summer in making a mussel survey of the 
upper waters of the Big Vermilion River, 
with special reference to the effect of the sew- 
age from Champaign and Urbana on the mus- 
sel fauna of the Salt Fork of the Vermilion 
River. Results have been obtained bearing on 
both the distribution of the river mussels in 
this stream and the effect of the sewage on this 
distribution. 
Mr. H. A. Noyes, research associate in hor- 
ticultural chemistry and bacteriology at the 
Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station, has 
resigned to accept an industrial fellowship 
with the Mellon Institute, University of Pitts- 
burgh. 
Dr. Roopa ErpMAnN has returned to New 
Haven, her present address being 67 Trumbull 
Street. 
Proressor SELSKAR M. Guny, one of the as- 
sociate directors of the American Commission 
for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in France 
(the Rockefeller Foundation), gave a lecture, 
illustrated by lantern slides, at the annual 
meeting of the National Association for the 
Prevention of Consumption and other Forms 
of Tuberculosis, at London on October 29. 
Dr. JAMES JACKSON PUTNAM, emeritus pro- 
fessor of diseases of the nervous system in the 
Harvard Medical School, died at his home in 
Boston on the fourth instant, in the seventy- 
third year of his age. 
Dr. P. H. Metz, of Atlanta, Ga., died on 
October 12 at the home of his brother-in-law, 
Mr. V. M. Fleming, of arteriosclerosis. He 
was born in Athens, Ga., in 1850, the son of 
Dr. P. H. Mell, chancellor of the University 
of Georgia. He was for many years professor 
of natural science in the Alabama College and 
afterwards president of Clemson College, S. O. 
Since he retired from active college work he 
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has been treasurer of the Home Mission Board 
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of the Southern Baptist Convention. 
UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL , 
NEWS 
Dr. Cartes Locke Scupper has been ap- 
pointed acting dean of the Harvard Graduate 
School of Medicine. 
Proressor FrepErICK SLocuM, who has been 
on leave of absence for a year in the service 
of the United States Shipping Board, train- 
ing men for service upon the Merchant Ma- 
rine, has resigned his position as director of 
the Van Vleck Observatory and professor of 
astronomy at Wesleyan University in order 
to become professor of navigation and director 
of the School of Navigation in Brown Uni- 
versity. Professor Burton H. Camp, of the 
mathematics department, has been appointed 
acting director of the Van Vleck Observatory. 
THE department of physiology of the Uni- 
versity of Rochester has secured the services 
of Dr. M. H. Givens as assistant professor of 
biochemistry, and of Dr. Harry B. McClugage 
as instructor. The department is cooperating 
with the Division of Food and Nutrition of 
the Medical Department, U. S. Army, and 
with the Department of Agriculture, in the 
investigation of the antiscorbutic properties 
of dehydrated vegetables and fruits. 
Murray P. Horowitz, instructor in the de- 
partment of biology and public health of the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 
also been appointed instructor in advanced 
bacteriology in the botany department of 
Wellesley College. 
Proressor C. A. Barnuart, formerly of 
Carthage College, has been appointed pro- 
fessor of mathematics in the University of 
New Mexico. 
Burns Oscar Severson, formerly at the 
Pennsylvania State College, has accepted the 
position of associate professor in animal breed- 
ing at the Kansas State Agricultural College. 
This position was left vacant through the 
resignation of Captain E. N. Wentworth, who 
is now in France. 
