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for the Promotion of Engineering Education 

 at the annual meeting of the society held re- 

 cently at Washington. 



Major Peaece Bailey, M.E.C, chairman of 

 the committee on furnishing hospital units 

 for nervous and mental disorders to the 

 United States Government, has been asked by 

 the Surgeon-General to serve as adviser in all 

 matters pertaining to psychiatry and neu- 

 rology. 



The Electrical World states that Brigadier 

 General George O. Squier, U. S. A., chief 

 signal officer of the army, has been made a 

 fellow of the Royal Society of England in 

 recognition of his invention of a new system 

 of ocean cabling which, it is believed, will be 

 of the greatest service in the war. 



Dr. Charles J. Bartlett, New Haven, 

 director of the pathologic laboratory, Yale 

 University, has been appointed director of the 

 bureau of laboratories of the state department 

 of health, succeeding the late Professor Her- 

 bert W. Conn. P. E. Bransfield, Ira D. Joel, 

 Ira V. Hiscock and George E. Stookey, who 

 were assistants to Professor Conn, have been 

 appointed to similar positions by the new 

 director. It has been decided to remove the 

 laboratory from Middlebury to the Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, E'ew Haven. 



Dr. Soca, professor at the University of 

 Montevideo, former president of the republic 

 of Uruguay, and Dr. Couto, professor of in- 

 ternal medicine at the Eaeulte de Rio-de- 

 Janeiro, the former president of the Academy 

 of Medicine of Brazil, have been elected mem- 

 bers of the Paris Academy of Medicine. 



The Russian Geographical Society at its 

 annual meeting elected as honorary members 

 Mr. Douglas Freshiield and Sir Aurel Stein, 

 and as corresjjonding members Sir Ernest 

 Shackleton and Mr. G. G. Chisholm. 



One hundred Japanese physicians are said 

 to be on the way to Eoumania in charge of 

 Dr. Motegi, chief of the Saiseikai Hospital 

 and head of the surgical department of the 

 Keio University. 



■ Dr. Oliver Fassig has gone to San Juan 

 on a special mission to extend and reorganize 



the Weather Bureau service in the West 

 Indies. In the Virgin Islands a station is to 

 be established, two stations are to be started 

 in Haiti and one at Puerto Plata, Santo Do- 

 mingo. The station in San Juan will prob- 

 ably be designated as the station in charge of 

 the West Indies Service. 



PEorEssoR E. W. GuDGER, of the State 

 Normal College, Greensboro, N. C, spent June 

 and July at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, in work on the " Bibliography of 

 Pishes," of which Professor Bashford Dean 

 and Dr. C. R. Eastman are editors. 



Dr. Burton J. Lemon, formerly instructor 

 in the department of chemistry of Cornell 

 University, and during the last two years a 

 chemist with the United States Rubber Com- 

 pany in New York, has received a commission 

 as captain in the Quartermaster Officers' Re- 

 serve Corps. 



Dr. H. B. North has recently resigned his 

 professorship in chemistry in Rutgers College 

 in order to become director of the research 

 laboratories of the York Metal Alloy Co., of 

 York, Pa. 



Charles H. Tuck, professor of extension 

 teaching in the New York State College of 

 Agriculture, Cornell University since 1910, 

 has resigned from the faculty. He has been 

 absent on leave since January, 1916, when he 

 went to Manchuria, and he is still there, en- 

 gaged in agricultural investigations for an 

 American syndicate. Maurice C. Burritt, ex- 

 tension professor and state director of farm 

 bureaus in the college, has been elected to suc- 

 ceed Professor Tuck. 



0. C. Charlton, until recently a teacher of 

 biology, has been appointed city forester for 

 Dallas, Texas. 



Dr. Leon I. Shaw, of Northwestern Univer- 

 sity, has been advanced to the position of as- 

 sistant professor of chemistry on leave of ab- 

 sence of one year for service with the United 

 States government. He has received the ap- 

 pointment of first lieutenant of the Ordnance 

 Officers' Reserve Corps. 



According to the Cornell Alumni Bulletin, 

 G. Harold Powell, general manager of the 



