DECEMBER 13, 1918] 
per, Joe G. Crick and Joseph Keyes, and Ser- 
geant Remington Kellog. 
Dr. Kenyon L. Burrerriecp, president of 
Massachusetts College and member of the 
Army Educational Commission for Vocational 
Training, has sailed for France to begin work 
in the overseas schools which are to be open 
to soldiers until they return home. 
Dean Haywanp, of the Agricultural Depart- 
ment of Delaware College, has been given a 
leave of absence for a year to serve as a 
regional director of agricultural education in 
France, under the Y. M. C. A. army overseas 
educational commission. 
Proressor Harry Freitpina Rei, of the 
Johns Hopkins University, and Professor 
Stephen Faber, of the University of South 
Carolina, have gone to Porto Rico, at the re- 
quest of the Secretary of War, to study the 
severe earthquakes which did serious damage 
in that island in October. 
Dr. Epcar W. Ottve, curator at the Brook- 
lyn Botanic Garden, spent several weeks dur- 
ing the past summer for the Plant Disease 
Survey and Cereal Disease Office of the United 
States Department of Agriculture, in coopera- 
tion with the departments of plant pathology 
of the New York State Agricultural College, 
Cornell University, and the Virginia Poly- 
technic Institute. The work included a fruit 
disease survey of the counties in the Hudson 
River valley; a study of onion smut conditions 
in the Wallkill valley, Orange county, N. Y.; 
an oat and barley smut trip through the Hud- 
son River valley counties, and a study of a 
new wheat disease in western Virginia. 
This work was continued during October, Dr. 
Olive being in Pennsylvania from the first to 
the fifth of the month, making a survey and 
study of a new and descriptive potato wart 
disease. 
Dr. Ortanpo E. Wuite, curator of plant 
breeding at the Brooklyn Botanie Garden, was 
granted a leave of absence of three and a half 
months, beginning on August 1, 1918, for the 
purpose of cooperating with the federal gov- 
ernment in the study of various problems con- 
nected with the growth and utilization of the 
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castor oil bean, with special reference to the 
production of castor oil. Plantations were 
visited in Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia, Flor- 
ida and Texas. 
Mr. G. W. Gray, of the Midland Refining 
Company, El Dorado, Kansas, has been ap- 
pointed a director of the Bureau of Refining, 
Oil Division, U. S. Fuel Administration. 
Proressor E. K. Soper, of the Oregon State 
School of Mines, has returned to Corvallis, 
Oregon, after three months of geological work 
in the Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes States. 
Dr. W. W. Bonns has accepted a position 
as director of the botanical research depart- 
ment of Eli Lilly Co., pharmaceutical chem- 
ists, Indianapolis. 
J. R. Battey, professor of organic chemis- 
try in the University of Texas, who spent last 
year doing research work with the Hirsch 
Brothers in New York, has returned and re- 
sumed his duties at the university. 
Dr. C. Stuart Gacer, director of the Brook- 
lyn Botanic Garden, delivered the commence- 
ment address at the School of Horticulture for 
Women, Ambler, Pennsylvania, on December 
18, 1918. The subject of the address was 
“ Horticulture as a profession.” 
At the recent opening at the South Balti- 
more General Hospital Dr. Llewellys F. Barker, 
of the Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Jane 
E. Nash, superintendent of the Church Home 
and Infirmary, made the principal addresses. 
THE anniversary address of the New York 
Academy of Medicine was delivered on De- 
cember 5, by Edwin G. Conklin, professor of 
biology in Princeton University, on “ The biol- 
ogy of democracy with especial reference to the 
present world crisis.” 
Over £2,500 of the £12,000 required has been 
subscribed to the chair of medicine which is to 
be established in the University of Belgrade, 
as a memorial to D. Elsie Ingles. 
Dr. Smyney Avaustus Norton, emeritus 
professor of chemistry at Ohio State Univer- 
sity since 1895, has died at his home in Colum- 
bus, aged eighty-four years. He was one of 
the five members of the original university 
