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DECEMBER 13, 1918] 
F. E. Breithut, of the Personnel Division of 
the Chemical Warfare Service. 
In order to accomplish results the chemists 
now in military service who desire to return to 
chemical industry are being requested to in- 
form the chief of the Industrial Relations 
Branch concerning their future prospects, while 
the manufacturers are being asked to designate 
their requirements for chemists. The admin- 
istration of this work will be carried out by 
the Industrial Relations Branch. Any infor- 
mation desired may be obtained by writing to 
Major Allen Rogers, Chief, Industrial Rela- 
tions Branch, Chemical Warfare Service, 7th 
and B Streets, N.W., Washington, D. OC. 
THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 
Arter the signing of the armistice, the coun- 
cil reconsidered its vote not to have a meeting 
this year. It has been definitely decided to 
hold a brief and somewhat informal meeting at 
Baltimore. The Baltimore meeting will be 
held on Friday and Saturday, December 27 
and 28. The sessions will take place in Gilman 
Hall, Homewood, Johns Hopkins University. 
Sections H and L of the A. A. A. S. will meet 
in rooms in the same building. 
The program has been limited to papers upon 
psychological work in connection with the war. 
Owing to the short time at the committee’s 
disposal, it has asked a number of members in 
service to present papers, instead of following 
its usual custom of sending a general notice 
to the members of the association. A number 
of members have already consented to read 
papers, and the meeting promises to be an in- 
teresting one. The general scheme for the 
program is as follows: Friday, December 27, 
at 10 a.Mm.—a parallel session with Sections H 
and L; Friday afternoon—a joint session with 
Sections H and L; Friday at 6:33—the annual 
dinner followed by a business meeting and 
smoker; Saturday morning at 9:30—a joint 
session with Section H; Saturday afternoon— 
a symposium upon “ The future of pure and 
applied psychology.” Friday at 4:30 pP.m., 
Professor E. L. Thorndike, the retiring vice- 
president of Section H, A. A. A. S., will de- 
liver an address entitled, “ Scientific personnel 
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work in the U. S. army.” At 7:30 p.a., Pro- 
fessor E. F. Buchner, the retiring vice-presi- 
dent of Section L, will deliver an address en- 
titled, “ Scientific contributions of the Educa- 
tional Survey.” Among others, will be papers 
upon the work of the psychological examiners, 
upon the methods of the Committee on Classi- 
fication of personnel including the trade tests, 
upon the work of reconstruction and upon the 
investigations in connection with aviation. It 
will not be possible this year to send a com- 
plete program to the members before the date 
of the meeting. All members are invited to at- 
tend the smoker, whether they are present at 
the dinner or not. 
H. S. LAancretp, 
Secretary 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 
December 4, 1918 
THE YELLOW FEVER EXPEDITION OF THE 
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION 
Dr. Greorce R. Vincent, president of the 
Rockefeller Foundation, announces that with 
the cessation of hostilities in France the foun- 
dation is prepared to direct its activities, 
largely diverted into war channels, back into 
ways of peace. Its international health board, 
he said, would renew at once in cooperation 
with local authorities in South and Central 
America its combat against yellow fever. 
Dr. William C. Gorgas, retired from the 
post of surgeon general on account of age, soon 
will sail, to take charge of the foundation’s 
fight against yellow fever. The position of 
director of yellow fever work, which General 
Gorgas now occupies, he held until the war 
compelled him to relinquish it and the foun- 
dation to suspend its efforts. Dr. Vincent’s 
statement continues: 
Dr. Gorgas will sail within a short time for Cen- 
tral and South America. Dr. N. E. Connor has al- 
ready preceded him to Guayaquil, on invitation of 
the government of Ecuador. He will guide the 
local operations, which will be done by men ap- 
pointed by the local authorities. 
The program which General Gorgas will now 
actively develop, results from a study of the yellow 
fever problem by the International Health board, 
which began its labors in July, 1914. 
