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overseas educational commission to take 
charge of the soils and fertilizer work in 
France during the demobilization period. Dr. 
McCall will arrange to continue his work for 
the National Research Council on the salt 
nutrient requirements for plants. 
Dr. Grorce T. Moors, director of the Mis- 
souri Botanical Garden, has been appointed 
director of the productions division of the 
United States Food Administration for St. 
Louis. 
Proressor Dan Oris, assistant dean of agri- 
culture in the University of Wisconsin, has 
received an appointment from the government 
as farm management specialist for France. 
Dr. Recinatp A. Dauy, Sturgis-Hooper pro- 
fessor of geology at Harvard, is a member of 
the committee which will have charge of the 
courses of instruction to be maintained in 
Europe for United States soldiers until they 
return to this country. 
Masor R. W. Broox, of the University of 
British Columbia, has been appointed geolog- 
ical adviser to the British Army in Pales- 
tine. For the last two years he has been over- 
seas on military duty. 
Mr. Wm. B. Brieruey, of the pathological 
laboratory, Royal Botanical Garden, Kew, and 
formerly lecturer in economic botany to Man- 
chester University, has accepted the appoint- 
ment of mycologist to the new Institute of 
Phytopathological Research, Rothamsted Ex- 
perimental Station, Harpenden. 
At Cambridge the Gedge prize for original 
observations in physiology has been awarded 
to Mr. Thomas Richard Parsons, B.A., of 
Sidney Sussex College, formerly of Birkbeck 
College, for an essay on “ The reaction of blood 
in the body.” 
During his stay in England as the repre- 
sentative of the United States Public Health 
Service, Professor Frederic S. Lee has been 
asked to sit on the industrial fatigue research 
board, a newly organized body under the 
chairmanship of Professor Sherrington. The 
board will continue in part the activities be- 
gun by the health of munition workers com- 
mittee, which has ceased to exist. 
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Proressor Anton Junius Caruson, chair- 
man of the department of physiology at the 
University of Chicago, now captain in the 
Sanitary Corps, is reported to have landed in 
France at the end of October, after several 
months of service in connection with the ra- 
tioning of American troops at the rest camps 
and in the aviation squadrons throughout Eng- 
land. 
Proressors James F. Kemp, Waldemar 
Lindgren, Joseph Barrell and A. C. Lawson, 
have been at Bingham, Utah, preparing eyi- 
dence in connection with mining litigation. 
Prorressor J. H. Lauer has resigned from 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to 
become geologist for the Sun Oil Company in 
Dallas, Texas. 
H. W. Turner has recently made a geo- 
logical reconnaissance of the Peace River oil 
field in northern Alberta. 
Miss Mary J. Hocus, formerly a member of 
the zoological staff of Wellesley College, is 
working in the laboratory of the Base Hos- 
pital at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. 
Mr. Grorcre W. Morey, of the geophysical 
laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, has 
been given a year’s leave of absence and is in 
charge of the optical glass plant of the Spencer 
Lens Company at Hamburg, New York. 
Proressor BaibEY Win.is, of Stanford Uni- 
versity, recently addressed the New York 
Academy of Sciences on “ The physical basis 
of national development.” 
Proressor Henry O. SHERMAN, of Colum- 
bia University, lectured before the New Bruns- 
wick Scientific Society, on November 25, on 
“ Permanent gains from the food conservation 
movement.” 
A sont meeting of the New York Section 
of the American Chemical Society, the New 
York Section of the American Electro-chem- 
ical Society, the Society of Chemical Industry 
and the Société de Chimie Industrielle was 
held on Friday evening, December 6, in Rum- 
ford Hall. The program of the evening con- 
sisted of the following addresses, accompanied 
by lantern slides: Colonel William H. Walker, 
