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tlie range of industrial films. At the last ex- 

 position two floors of the big building were 

 occupied by 187 exhibitors. This year three 

 floors, possibly more, will be occupied. Al- 

 ready the list of exhibitors contains 250 names 

 of companies entering every field of industry. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Surgeon-General Gorgas, Dr. FranHin H. 

 Martin, head of the Medical Bureau of the 

 Council of National Defense, and their staffs, 

 and a large number of army and reserve med- 

 ical ofiicers visited on August 12 the Eoeke- 

 feUer Institute for Medical Eesearch, where 

 they saw demonstrations of the medical and 

 surgical practises which the institute has de- 

 veloped. 



Surgeon-General Gorgas, of the army, re- 

 organizing the Veterinary Corps, has selected 

 the following veterinary surgeons as an ad- 

 visory board: Dr. C. J. Marshall, Pennsyl- 

 vania; Dr. David S. White, dean of the col- 

 lege of veterinary medicine, Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, Coliunbus; Dr. Louis A. Klein, dean 

 of the school of veterinary medicine. Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania; Dr. V. A. Moore, dean 

 of the New York state veterinary college, Cor- 

 nell University, and Dr. John E. Mohler, as- 

 sistant chief of the Bureau of Animal Indus- 

 try, Washington. 



A research committee to cooperate with the 

 National Eesearch Council has been appointed 

 at Brown University, including from the fac- 

 ulty Professors Carl Barus, Albert D. Mead, 

 Eoland G. D. Eichardson, John E. Bucher and 

 Frederic P. Gorham; from the university 

 corporation. Chancellor Arnold B. Ohace and 

 Edwin Earnham Greene, treasurer of the 

 Pacific Mills; from the alumni, J. B. F. 

 Herreshoff, of the Nichols Chemical Com- 

 pany; Charles V. Chapin, M.D., of the Provi- 

 dence Board of Health; John C. Hebden, of 

 the Federal Dye Stuffs Corporation, and 

 Frank E. Winsor, of Providence. The com- 

 mittee will prepare a survey of research al- 

 ready in progress at Brown University, and 

 assist in a national census of research work in 

 the United States. It will endeavor to 

 broaden the conception of scientific research. 



to cooperate with industrial corporations, and 

 to establish research fellowships so as to train 

 promising young men and women for impor- 

 tant positions in manufacture and in the 

 government service. 



Professor Willum Campbell, of Colum- 

 bia University, New York, is serving as con- 

 sulting metallographist at the New York navy 

 yard. 



Dr. Hardee Chambliss, chemical director of 

 the Commercial Acid Company of St. Louis, 

 has been commissioned major in the ordnance 

 section of the Ofiicers' Eeserve Corps. 



The British Fuel Eesearch Board, with the 

 sanction of the Committee of the Privy Coun- 

 cil for Scientific and Industrial Eesearch, has 

 appointed a committee of inquiry into the 

 utilization of Irish peat deposits. The follow- 

 ing appointments have been made to the com- 

 mittee: Sir John Purser Griffith (chairman), 

 Professor Hugh Eyan, Professor Sydney 

 Young, Mr. George Fletcher and Professor 

 Pierce Purcell (secretary). 



It is stated in Nature that grants have been 

 made out of the Dixon fund of the University 

 of London for the year 1917-18 as follows: 

 £25, Mr. Nilratan Dhar, for research on tem- 

 perature coefficients of chemical reactions; 

 £30, Mr. H. E. Nettleton, for researches on 

 the measurement of the Thomson effect in 

 wires; £20, Dr. D. Ellis, towards the cost of 

 publication of a book on " Iron Bacteria " ; 

 £100, Mr. Birbal Sahni, to enable him to 

 carry out botanical investigations at Cam- 

 bridge. 



The Asiatic Society of Bengal has awarded 

 the Barclay memorial medal to Col. H. H. 

 Godwin- Austen, for his work in biology. 



Dr. Edward G. Birge has resigned as di- 

 rector of the state bacteriologic laboratory at 

 Jacksonville, Fla., and has been succeeded by 

 Dr. Burdett L. Arms, Montgomery, chief 

 bacteriologist of the Alabama State Board of 

 Health. 



Dr. Edward S. Godfrey, Jr., has resigned 

 as director of the Illinois Bureau of Com- 

 municable Diseases of the State Board of 

 Health, to accept a position in the sanitary de- 



