Jolt 20, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



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to keep the public informed as to the activi- 

 ties of the organization. 



Dr. C.-E. a. Winslow, of the Yale School 

 of Medicine, is engaged in Eed Cross work in 

 Eussia. During his absence the editorship of 

 the Journal of Bacteriology has been assumed 

 by Professor Leo F. Eettger, Tale University. 

 Manuscripts for the journal should be sent, as 

 heretofore, to Professor Winslow's office, Yale 

 School of Medicine. 



Dr. Augustus Trowbridge, professor of 

 physics in Princeton University, has been 

 made director and commissioned a major in 

 the signal corps of the U. S. Army. Under 

 him there is now a stafi of twenty-five men 

 working in the Palmer Physical Laboratory. 



Leave of absence during 1917-18 for war 

 service has been granted to Professor J. S. 

 Shearer of the department of physics of Cor- 

 nell University. He is directing the standard- 

 ization of X-ray apparatus for the medical 

 corps. 



Dr. John A. Elliott, associate plant path- 

 ologist of the Delaware College Experiment 

 Station, has been elected plant pathologist of 

 the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, to fill the vacancy created by the resigna- 

 iton of Professor J. Lee Hewitt, who has be- 

 come secretary and chief inspector of the 

 Arkansas State Plant Board. 



M. Emile Picard, recently elected perma- 

 nent secretary of the Paris Academy of Sci- 

 ences, has been appointed to represent the 

 French government on the International 

 Geodetic Association. 



M. Ernest Solvay, the distinguished Bel- 

 gian industrial chemist, who has made large 

 gifts for the endowment of chemical and 

 physical research, has been elected a corres- 

 ponding member of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences in the place of the late Sir Henry 

 Eoscoe. 



General Bourgeois, professor of astronomy 

 in the Paris School of Technology and 

 director of the geographic service of the 

 French Army, has been elected a member of 

 the Paris Academy of Sciences in the Section 



of Geography and Navigation, to fill the place 

 vacant by the death of M. Phillip Hatt. 



The University of Nebraska has conferred 

 the doctorate of science on Patrick Joseph 

 O'Gara, '02, chief in charge of agricultural 

 and smelter waste investigations for the 

 American Smelting and Eefining Company 

 at Salt Lake City. For the past four years 

 Dr. O'Gara has been making extensive in- 

 vestigations on the effects of gaseous and solid 

 smelter wastes on vegetable and animal life. 



Mr. C. D. Getoel, chemist and bacteriologist 

 in the state food laboratory, Madison, Wis., has 

 accepted a position in the Bureau of Chemis- 

 try, Washington, D. C, and assumed his new 

 duties on June 15. 



H. K. Benson, instructor in industrial chem-- 

 ,istry at the University of Washington, Seattle, 

 and director of the Bureau of Industrial Ee- 

 search, will spend his summer vacation at the 

 .plant of the American Nitrogen Products 

 Company at La Grande, Wash., where he will 

 conduct research work relating to the manu- 

 facture of nitrogen products from the air by 

 use of electricity. Professor Benson will re- 

 turn to his school work in the fall. 



Professor C. E. Davis has resigned as pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at the Utah Agricultural 

 College at Logan, and accepted a position as 

 .research chemist for the National Biscuit Co., 

 with headquarters in the Havemeyer Labora- 

 tory, Columbia University. 



Mr. L. W. Bahney has left the Sheffield 

 Scientific School of Yale University to take a 

 position as metallurgical engineer with the 

 Scovill Manufacturing Co., Waterbury, Conn. 



Professor Lloyd Van Doren, of Eariham 

 College, Eichmond, Ind., has been cooperating 

 with The Mcintosh Stereopticon Co., Chicago, 

 in the compilation of a series of lantern slides 

 suitable for illustrating topics in general chem- 

 istry and in industrial chemistry. 



Me. Burr A. Eobinson has resigned as as- 

 sistant secretary of the American Institute of 

 Mining Engineers to go into industrial work, 

 and Professor G. A. Eoush, of Lehigh Univer- 

 sity, has taken up his work as managing editor 

 of the institute's monthly bulletin. 



