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neers, will return to his work as professor of 
mining on January 3; Charles Yancey Clayton, 
who has been working in the Bureau of Mines 
at Pittsburgh, Pa., on metallographic work for 
the Ordnance Department, will resume his 
duties as assistant professor of metallurgy; 
Captains E. S. McCandliss, F. E. Dennie and 
Lieutenant R. S. Lillard, of the mines faculty, 
are with the U. S. Engineers Army of Occupa- 
tion in Germany, and Captain F. H. Frame, 
assistant professor of physics, is with the Ord- 
nance Department in France. 
Dr. Larayvette B. Menpen, professor of 
physiological chemistry at Yale, is attending 
the meetings of the Inter-Allied Food Com- 
mission in Europe. 
Dr. H. N. Hotmes, of the chemistry depart- 
ment at Oberlin College, has been released 
from part work in order to carry out research 
for the National Research Council, having 
been appointed a member of a National Com- 
mittee of four on colloids. 
Captaris W. A. Fetsinc, Ph.D., has been 
appointed adjunct professor of chemistry at 
the University of Texas. He has been sta- 
tioned for some time past at the government 
arsenal at Edgewood, Md. 
Caprarn Paut J. Hanzuik, Medical Corps, 
U. S. A., chief of the Dermatological Unit, 
Chemical Warfare Service, Camp Leach, 
American University, has returned to his posi- 
tion of assistant professor of pharmacology, 
School of Medicine, Western Reserve Uni- 
versity. 
Raymonp L. Barney, scientific assistant at 
the Homer station of the U. S. Bureau of 
Fisheries, has been promoted to be superin- 
tendent and director of the Beaufort, N. C., 
biological station, to sueceed S. F. Hilde- 
brand, who was promoted last July to be 
superintendent of the Key West (Fla.) bio- 
logical station. 
AT its last meeting the Rumford Committee 
of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 
ences voted an appropriation of $250 to Dr. 
Louis T. E. Thompson, of Clark University, 
for the development of a gun-sight with two 
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magnifications, for application to anti-aircraft 
guns. 
Miss Exizasern S. Werricx, for the past 
eight years instructor in chemistry at Pratt 
Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y., has resigned her 
position there to take up the work of textile 
chemist in the chemical laboratories of Sears 
Roebuck and Company, Chicago. 
Mr. Joun E. Scuort, formerly an industrial 
fellow at Mellon Institute, has accepted a 
position with the Experimental Division of 
the Hercules Powder Co., Kenvil, N. J. 
Dr. H. N. Wuitrorp has recently returned 
from a six month’s trip in the southern part 
of Brazil, made in behalf of the Yale Forestry 
School. While there he was engaged in propa- 
ganda work in forest conservation and investi- 
gative studies. He had occasion to visit one 
of the largest hard wood sections in the states 
of Espirito Santo and Minas Geraes. He also 
spent some time in the Araucaria forests of 
southern Brazil. This latter is the largest 
coniferous forest in the southern hemisphere. 
Dr. J. J. Gattoway, of the department of 
geology of Columbia University, spent the past 
summer in the Mexican states of Yucatan, 
Campeche and Quintana Roo, studying the 
geology and petroleum resources of the penin- 
sula. 
Dr. L. H. Batmey is working at the Gray 
Herbarium of Harvard University completing 
the determinations of the collection of plants 
he made in China in the spring of 1917. 
Mr. C. T. R. Witson has been elected presi- 
dent of the’ Cambridge Philosophical Society. 
The vice-presidents are Dr. Doncaster, Mr. W. 
H. Mills and Professor Marr. 
Art the annual meeting of the Royal Society 
of Edinburgh Dr. J. Horne was elected presi- 
dent. Vice-presidents were elected as follows: 
Professor D’Arcy Thompson, Professor J. 
Walker, Professor G. A. Gibson, Dr. R. Kid- 
ston, Professor D. Noél Paton and Professor 
A. Robinson. 
Tue Swiney lectures on geology of the 
Royal Society of Arts in connection with the 
British Museum (Natural History), are given 
