August 31, 1917] 



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Health Board of the Eockefeller Foundation, 

 is a member of the commission of the Eed 

 Cross which is making a survey of conditions 

 in Italy, preliminary to a possible appropria- 

 tion for relief by the Eed Cross. Dr. Heiser 

 has also consented, if the matter is undertaken, 

 to head the work of establishing Red Cross 

 relief stations in seaports having military 

 significance for the United States and its 

 Allies. 



Professor "Walter T. Fisiileigh, of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, has been commissioned as 

 major, to act as automobile engineer to the U. 

 S. Medical Corps in charge of the engineer- 

 ing, testing, inspection, maintenance and re- 

 pairs of all American ambulances in the army, 

 both in this country and abroad. Professor 

 Felix W. Pawlowski, also of the University 

 of Michigan, is in the government service as 

 aeronautical engineer in the signal corps with 

 headquarters at the War Department at Wash- 

 ington. 



Dr. Edgar T. Wherry, for the past four 

 years assistant curator of the division of 

 mineralogy and petrology of the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum, has been transferred to the 

 position of crystallographer in the Bureau of 

 Chemistry of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 eidture. 



Dr. L. E. Dickson, professor of mathematics 

 in the University of California, has accepted 

 an invitation to be a visiting professor at the 

 University of California for the first half of 

 the coming academic year. He will return to 

 the University of Chicago on December 20. 



Dr. E. O. Hovey, curator of geology in the 

 American Museum of Natural History, has 

 reached home safely after an absence of over 

 two years with the Crocker relief expedition. 



Dr. a. W. Gilbert, professor of plant breed- 

 ing at Cornell University, who has been on 

 leave of absence for graduate work in rural 

 economics at Harvard University, has resigned 

 to accept an appointment with the Boston 

 Chamber of Commerce. Donald K. Tressler, 

 assistant in agricultural chemistry at the uni- 

 versity, has also resigned to accept a position 



with the Bureau of Soils of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



Dr. Mark Francis, of the Agricultural and 

 Mechanical College of Texas, recently secured 

 the vertebrse of some dinosaurs from the vi- 

 cinity of Riesel near Waco. He has added 

 these to the collection of Texas vertebrate 

 fossils which he has been accumulating for 

 some years and which includes the type speci- 

 mens of Equus Francisii, named by Dr. O. P. 

 Hay, of the National Museum, fi-om material 

 found near Eagle Lake, Texas. 



The surgeon-general's office desires the 

 names, addresses and ages of men in each class 

 of every reputable medical school who have 

 been drawn and accepted for military service 

 under the provisions of the selective draft, 

 these names to be vouched for by the deans of 

 the respective medical colleges. 



The board of health of Akron, Ohio, is seek- 

 ing a health officer to take charge of the board 

 of health, the salary of the position being 

 $3,500. 



The National Bureau of Standards has not 

 yet obtained all the men needed to fill metal- 

 lurgical positions with salaries varying from 

 $1,200 to $2,000, depending upon the training 

 and experience of the candidate. Men are de- 

 sired with experience either in ferrous or non- 

 ferrous metallurgy. The duties in such posi- 

 tions will be almost entirely of an investiga- 

 tional nature, in connection with problems of 

 military importance. Qualified men are urged 

 to eommimieate to the Bureau of Standards at 

 once a statement of training and experience, 

 names of references, and minimum salary 

 which wouJd be accepted, so that they may be 

 advised of appropriate civil service examina- 

 tion for which to file papers. Until further 

 notice such papers are received by the Civil 

 Service Commission at any time and rated 

 promptly. 



The Experiment Station Record states that 

 as a result of experiments conducted by the 

 department of chemistry of the South Dakota 

 Agricultural College during the past twenty 

 years, it is expected that sugar-beet factories 

 wiU soon be established in both the eastern and 



