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head of one of the French military hospitals, 

 arrived in the United States on July 4. 



Me. 0. P. WiNSLOW has been appointed di- 

 rector of the Forest Products Laboratory to 

 succeed Mr. H. F. Weiss, now in charge of the 

 Division of Forest Products of the C. F. 

 Burgess Laboratories. Dr. S. F. Acree severed 

 his connection as chief chemist at the labora- 

 tory and is now with the National Wood Chem- 

 ical Association, with headquarters at Syra- 

 cuse University. 



Dr. Feank D. Adams, of the faculty of ap- 

 plied science of McGill University, has been 

 elected a foreign honorary member of the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bos- 

 ton, Mass., and also an honorary member of 

 the Mineralogieal Society of Russia at Petro- 

 grad. 



Me. J. J. Manley, the curator of the 

 Daubeny Laboratory, has been elected to a 

 fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford, for 

 the prosecution of special researches in phys- 

 ics and chemistry. 



The committee on science and the arts of 

 the Franklin Institute has awarded its Edward 

 Longstreth medals of merit to Professor A. E. 

 Kennelly, Messrs. F. H. Achard and A. S. 

 Dana, for their joint paper entitled " Experi- 

 mental researches on the skin effect in steel 

 rails," appearing in the August, 1916, issue of 

 the Journal of the Franklin Institute. 



Mr. John Hall Sage, secretary of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union was, on April 

 20, the guest of Dr. A. K. Fisher, at the camp 

 of the Washington Biologists' Field Club, at 

 Plummer's Island in the Potomac near Wash- 

 ington, D. C, where they were joined by six- 

 teen other fellows and members of the union 

 who gathered there in honor of Mr. Sage's 

 seventieth birthday. 



A COMPLIMENTARY dinner was recently given 

 to Mr. Thomas J. Parker by some of his 

 friends, at the Chemists' Club, New York 

 City. The speakers were Dr. Milton C. 

 Whitaker, Professor Chas. F. Chandler, Dr. 

 Charles H. Herty and Dr. Hugo Schweitzer. 



De. lioBEHT H. LowiE, associate curator of 

 anthropology at the American Museum of Nat- 



ural History, has received a temporary ap- 

 pointment as associate professor in the Uni- 

 versity of California for the academic year 

 1917-18. He has been given a leave of ab- 

 sence by the American Museum of Natural 

 History. In exchange. Professor A. L. 

 Kroeber will join the staff of the museum dur- 

 ing the first half of the year 1918. 



Peofessoe H. H. Bartlett has received 

 leave of absence from the University of Michi- 

 gan for the next year and a haH in order that 

 he may take charge of the laboratories of the 

 United States Eubber Co. in Sumatra. At a 

 recent meeting of the board of regents of the 

 university, a letter was presented from Pro- 

 fessor Bartlett with respect to a clause in the 

 contract between himself and the United 

 States Rubber Company relating to certain 

 fellowships to be established in the university 

 during Professor Bartlett's absence by the 

 company in order to retain certain of Pro- 

 fessor Bartlett's graduate students. This 

 clause received the approval of the board. 



Peofessor R. G. Hoskins, of the North- 

 western University Medical School, has been 

 appointed editor of Endrocrinology, the bul- 

 letin of the Association for the Study of the 

 Internal Secretions. 



Me. Geoege H. Ashley has returned to the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C, 

 having concluded his term as acting professor 

 of geology in Vanderbilt University. He 

 took the chair of geology for sis months in 

 the absence of Professor L. C. Glenn. 



W. E. ToTTiNGHAM, assistant professor of 

 agricultural chemistry. College of Agriculture, 

 Madison, Wis., is on leave of absence and is 

 working at Johns Hopkins University with 

 Professor Livingston, on special problems in 

 plant chemistry and physiology. 



Julius Otto Schlotteebeck, professor of 

 pharmacognosy and botany and dean of the 

 College of Pharmacy of the University of 

 Michigan, died on June 1. 



The death occurred at Cambridge on June 

 9 of T. McKenny Hughes, F.E.S., Wood- 

 wardian professor of geology in the university, 

 at the age of eighty-five years. He was elected 



