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general character as those of our national 
parks. It will require several years to com- 
plete the plans now under way. Only the 
more urgent problems were begun this season. 
This survey has the hearty support of Mr. 
George W. Perkins, president of the Park 
Commissioners, and Dean F. F. Moon, of the 
College of Forestry. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Tur Société Médicale des Hépitaux de Paris 
elected at a recent meeting, as corresponding 
members: Dr. Alexander Lambert, the presi- 
dent-elect of the American Medical Associa- 
tion, director of the medical service of the 
American Red Oross in France; Colonel 
James T. Case, editor of the American Journal 
of Radiology and chief of the radiologic serv- 
ice of the American Army in France; Pro- 
fessor William S. Thayer of Johns Hopkins, 
consultant .to the American Expeditionary 
Force; Professor Morton Prince of Tufts Col- 
lege; Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the 
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 
and Professor Beverley Robinson of the Uni- 
versity and Bellevue Hospital, New York, a 
former intern of the Paris hospitals. At the 
same time, five British physicians were also 
elected, Sir Almroth Wright, Sir Bertrand 
Dawson, Sir Thomas Barlow, Sir Dyce Duck- 
worth and Sir William Leishman. 
We learn from the Journal of the Washing- 
ton Academy of Sciences that among those at 
the Bureau of Standards are: Dr. F. W. Mc- 
Nair, president of the Michigan School of 
Mines, working on airplane engine problems; 
Dr. ©. Nussbaum, formerly instructor in 
physies at Harvard University, engaged in the 
study of aeronautic instruments; Mr. E. P. 
Peck, formerly superintendent of operation 
of the Georgia Railway and Power Company, 
assisting in the standardization of electrical 
apparatus, and Lieutenant Henri Cretien, of 
the French army, who has been engaged in 
research work in military problems related to 
optics. 
SCIENCE 
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Proressor G. F. Hux, of Dartmouth Col- 
lege, has been commissioned a major in the 
Ordnance Department, and is now in Wash- 
ington. 
Dr. Wittum H. Ross, of the Bureau of 
Soils, has been commissioned a captain in the 
Chemical Warfare Service, and has been as- 
signed to the Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood, 
Maryland. 
Proressor Roswetu P. Aner, of Yale Uni- 
versity, is a captain in the Sanitary Corps, 
National Army, at the Hazelhurst Field Med- 
ical Research Laboratory, Mineola, L. I. He 
has been engaged in research work on psycho- 
logical tests for aviators and in instructing 
other psychologists to give, at other aviation 
fields of the country, tests already devised. 
Mr. B. H. Rawt, chief of the Dairy Divi- 
sion of the Bureau of Animal Industry since 
1909, has been appointed assistant chief of the 
bureau. 
In the U. S. National Museum Dr. Charles 
W. Richmond has been promoted to be asso- 
ciate curator of birds. Mr. Bradshaw H. 
Swales has been appointed honorary. curator of 
birds’ eggs. 
Proressor C. D. Cuitp, head of the depart- 
ment of physics at Colgate University, is 
spending the current college year at Cornell 
University, engaged in special government re- 
search. 
LIEUTENANT GEorGE O. FrerGusoN, JR., asso- 
ciate professor of psychology at Colgate Uni- 
versity, is stationed at Camp Lee, Virginia, in 
charge of the psychological examination of 
men in that camp. 
Dr. THomas P. McCutcHeon, associate pro- 
fessor of chemistry of the University of Penn- 
sylvania, has been assigned to overseas duty 
as consultant chemist in connection with the 
Chemical Warfare Service. Dr. McCutcheon, 
who is serving in a civilian capacity, spentt the 
entire summer in government service at Wash- 
ington. 
D. Forest HuncErrorD, professor of chem- 
istry at the University of Arkansas, has ac- 
cepted a position with the United States De- 
