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SCIENCE 



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The following assistants in the American 

 Museum of Natural History have enlisted in 

 the army: Carlos D. Empie and Harold E. 

 Anthony, mammalogy; Charles Camp, verte- 

 brate paleontology; Leo E. Miller and James 

 P. Chapin, ornithology. Howarth S. Boyle, 

 ornithology, is now in the service of the navy. 

 Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, state commissioner 

 of health of I^ew York, is chairman of a sub- 

 •committee on tuberculosis appointed by the 

 ^general medical board of the Council of Na- 

 tional Defense. Other members of this special 

 •committee are: Dr. John W. Trask, of the 

 United States Public Health Service; Dr. 

 George T. Palmer, of Springfield, 111.; Dr. 

 Charles B. Grandy, of Newport News, Va. ; Dr. 

 E. E. Baldwin and Dr. Lawrason Brown, of 

 Saranac, N. Y., and Mr. Homer Folks, of New 

 York. 



The commission for the prevention of tuber- 

 culosis, which the Rockefeller Foundation is to 

 send to France, will, as has already been an- 

 nounced in Science, be headed by Dr. Living- 

 ston Farrand, president of the University of 

 Colorado, who for ten years was the executive 

 secretary of the National Association for the 

 Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Dr. 

 Farrand will be accompanied by Dr. James 

 Alexander Miller, of New York ; Homer Folks, 

 of New York, and Professor Selskar M. Gunn, 

 of Boston. Hermann G. Place, of New York, 

 has been appointed secretary. Dr. Miller is 

 professor of clinical medicine in Columbia 

 University, the director of the tuberculosis 

 work of Bellevue Hospital, and president of the 

 Association of Tuberculosis Clinics in New 

 York City. Holmer Folks is the secretary of 

 the .State Charities Aid Association. In addi- 

 tion to his comiection with the commission, 

 Mr. Folks will take charge of the tuberculosis 

 relief work of the American Eed Cross in 

 France. Selskar M. Gunn holds a professor- 

 ship in the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, is the secretary of the American Pub- 

 lic Health Association, and editor of the 

 American Journal of Public Health. 



The war council of the American Red Cross 

 announces the appointment of a medical ad- 

 visory conunittee, the membership of which is 



as follows: Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the 

 Rockefeller Institute, chairman; Dr. John W. 

 Kerr, assistant Surgeon General, United States 

 Public Health Service ; Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, 

 director of the New York State Department 

 of Health; Dr. William H. Welch, dean of the 

 School of Hygiene, Johns Hopkins University ; 

 Dr. Frank S. Billings, professor of medicine. 

 University of Chicago; Dr. M. J. Rosenau, 

 professor of preventive medicine. Harvard 

 University; Mr. Wickliffe Rose, director of 

 the International Health Board; Dr. Victor C. 

 Vaughan, professor of hygiene. University of 

 Michigan; Dr. Charles V. Chapin, Department 

 of Health, Providence, R. I.; Dr. Richard P. 

 Strong, professor of tropical medicine, Har- 

 vard University; Dr. Richard M. Pearce, pro- 

 fessor of research medicine. University of 

 Pennsylvania. Ex-ofiicio members of the com- 

 mittee will be: Colonel Jefferson R. Kean, di- 

 rector general, department of military relief, 

 and Dr. T. W. Richards, assistant director gen- 

 eral, department of military relief. Perma- 

 nent offices for the medical advisory committee 

 will be opened in the Red Cross headquarters 

 in Washington, in charge of Dr. Richard M. 

 Pearce, who will act as secretary. 



" Science and industry : the place of Cam- 

 bridge in any scheme for their combination " 

 was the subject of the Rede Lecture delivered 

 at Cambridge by Sir R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., 

 fellow of Trinity, and director of the National 

 Physical Laboratory. 



Charles Horton Peck, former state 

 botanist of New York, died at his home in 

 Albany on July 11. Dr. Peck's official term 

 of scientific service began in 1867, and ex- 

 tended over a period of forty-sis years. He 

 retired on account of illness and age in 1913, 

 and at the time of his death was in his 

 eighty-fifth year. 



Alois von Isakovitz, an industrial chemist, 

 known for his work on perfumes and flavoring 

 materials, born in Bohemia in 1870, died at 

 his home in Montecello, New York, on 

 June 5. 



Edward Randolph Taylor, since 1877 a 

 manufacturer of chemicals at Penn Yan, N. 



