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having direction of tie experimental plant 

 at Thompson, ^Nevada. In connection with 

 this work, Mr. Weidlein developed a process 

 for the use of sulphur dioxide in hydrometal- 

 lurgy. 



In 1916 Mi-. "Weidlein went to the Mellon 

 Institute as assistant director and was later 

 appointed associate director. He became 

 acting director in 1918, during the leave of 

 absence of Colonel Raymond F. Bacon as 

 chief of the Technical Division of the Chemi- 

 cal Warfare Service. In 1918 Mr. Weidlein 

 was appointed chemical expert for the war 

 Industries Board. The forty-eight industrial 

 fellowships for scientific investigations of 

 problems of manufacturing in operation at 

 the Mellon Institute cover a wide range of 

 problems in chemical and mechanical technol- 

 ogy, and Mr. Weidlein maintains a constantly 

 active supervision over these researches. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Simon Flexneb, the director of The 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 

 was elected honorary foreign member of the 

 Academie Royal de Medicine in Brussels, 

 Belgium, on June 25. 



At a meeting of the board of directors of 

 the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, held on 

 September 26, Rear Admiral William C. 

 Braisted, former Surgeon General of the U. 

 S. Navy, and formerly president of the Ameri- 

 can Medical Association, was reelected presi- 

 dent of the college. 



At the meeting of the Rochester Medical 

 Association, held on October 3, at Rochester, 

 under the presidency of Dr. Loron W. Howk, 

 Dr. George H. Whipple, dean of the new 

 medical school. University of Rochester, was 

 entertained at dinner. In his speech he out- 

 lined the plan of the new school which was 

 made possible by the gifts of the Rockefeller 

 Foundation and of Mr. George Eastman. 



Dr. L. L. Campbell, head of the physics 

 department of Simmons College, Boston, has 

 been elected a fellow of the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences. 



Dr. a. D. Bevan, past president of the 

 American Medical Association, has received 

 the title of Officer of the Legion of Honor 

 for services rendered to medical science and 

 education and as president of the American 

 Medical Association during the war. 



Dr. Ettore Marchiava^ known for his re- 

 searches on malaria, has been nominated an 

 emeritus professor at Rome. 



The Sultan of Egypt has conferred the 

 Order of the ISTile (second class) upon Mr. 

 Owen Richards, director of the School of 

 Medicine, Cairo, in recognition of valuable 

 services rendered. 



Dr. Norman MacLeod Harris, formerly as- 

 sistant professor of hygiene and bacteriology 

 in the University of Chicago, has accepted the 

 position of chief of the division of medical 

 research in the Department of Health of the 

 Dominion of Canada, at Ottawa. 



Dr. William C. Kendall, scientific assistant 

 and ichthyologist of the U. S. Bureau of Fish- 

 eries at Washington, has resigned his position 

 after thirty-three years of service, to accept the 

 position of ichthyologist in the Roosevelt Wild 

 Life Forest Experiment Station of the New 

 York State College of Forestry at Syracuse. 

 He takes the position made vacant by Profes- 

 sor T. L. Hankinson, who has accepted an 

 appointment in the Michigan State Normal 

 College, Ypsilanti. 



H. L. Russell, dean of the college of agri- 

 culture in the University of Wisconsin and 

 director of the Wisconsin Exx)eriment Station 

 and Agricultural Extension Service, has been 

 appointed a member of the committee to man- 

 age the agricultural loan agency of the district 

 for the War Finance corporation. 



Dr. John Dewey, professor of philosophy in 

 Columbia University, has returned to New 

 York after having spent three years in the 

 Orient, having been occupied as educational 

 adviser to the Chinese government. 



Dr. Albert H. Wright, of the department of 

 zoology of Cornell University, spent a large 

 part of the summer making a study of the 

 animals, birds, and fishes in the Okeefinokee 

 Swamp, lying between Georgia and Florida. 



