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It has not found it necessary to increase its 
dues and the past year has proved one of the 
most prosperous in its history. 
The next meeting in 1919 will be held in 
New York City. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Tuis number of Science completes twenty- 
four years of weekly publication under the 
present editorial management. The New Era 
Printing Company have been the printers of 
the journal during this period, and it is be- 
coming to put on record its obligation to them 
for efficient and distinguished work. 
The American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science and the national scientific 
societies affiliated with it are meeting this 
week at Baltimore, the opening session being 
held on the day the present issue of SCIENCE 
is mailed. We hope to print next week the 
address of the retiring president, Professor 
Theodore W. Richards, to be followed by the 
addresses of the vice-presidents and other ad- 
dresses and papers presented at the meeting. 
Dr. A. Smita Woopwarp, keeper of the 
Geological Department of the British Museum 
(Natural History), has been awarded the 
Cuvier prize by the French Academy of 
Sciences. 
Sim Hersert Jackson has been appointed 
director of the British Scientific Instrument 
Research Association. He has resigned from 
the Daniell professorship of chemistry, King’s 
College, London. 
LIEUTENANT CoLONEL RAFFAELE BASTIANELLI, 
professor of surgery in the University of 
Rome, has been elected an Honorary Fellow 
of the New York Academy of Medicine. 
Proressor G. F. Novaro retires this year 
from the chair of clinical surgery at the Uni- 
versity of Genoa, having reached the age of 
seventy-five. He is a senator of the realm. 
LizuTENANT CoLoneL Frank P. UNDERHILL, 
commanding officer of the Yale Chemical 
Warfare Unit, has recently returned from 
France, where he went to introduce a cure 
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for men gassed at the front. This new 
method was adopted. 
Dr. A. O. Leuscuner, of the University of 
California, will relinquish the duties of dean 
of the graduate division at the university at 
the end of the academic year, and has received 
a commission as major, Chemical Warfare 
Service, with headquarters at Washington, and 
has been detailed to the National Research 
Council since the armistice. Captain W. H. 
Wright, astronomer in the Lick Observatory, 
is connected with the Range Firing Section, 
Ordnance Corps, Aberdeen Proving Ground. 
Dr. H. D. Curtis, astronomer in the Lick Ob- 
servatory, is engaged in war work at the Bu- 
reau of Standards. Dr. Russell Tracy Craw- 
ford, assistant professor of astronomy in the 
University of California, is major in the Sig- 
mal Corps, U. S. Army, at the Air Balloon 
School, Ft. Omaha. Dr. Dinsmore E. Alter, 
instructor in astronomy, University of Cali- 
fornia, recently appointed assistant professor 
of astronomy and physics, University of Kan- 
sas, is major in the Coast Artillery Corps, 
U.S. Army, in charge of the Enlisted Special- 
ists School, Ft. Scott, California. Wallace 
Campbell, fellow in astronomy at the Univer- 
sity of California, lieutenant in the engineer 
Corps, U. 8. Army, is in France with the Ex- 
peditionary Forces. 
Dr. HucuH P. Baker, who for nearly two 
years has been serving as a captain in the U. S. 
Army, has been released from service and has 
returned to resume his duties as dean of the 
New York State College of Forestry at Syra- 
cuse University. On account of an injury and 
because of his special training, Captain Baker 
had far the last few months been assigned to 
special investigative work for the Intelligence 
Bureau of the General Staff at Washington, 
D.C. Professor F. F. Moon, of the New York 
State College of Forestry at Syracuse Univer- 
sity, who has been dean of the college during 
the absence of Dean Hugh P. Baker, has on 
the return of the latter to his work, been 
granted a year’s leave of absence to begin im- 
mediately. 
At the school of mines of the University of 
Missouri Carroll R. Forbes, major of engi- 
