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Professor Basil C. H. Harvey, of the de- 

 partment of anatomy of the University of 

 Chicago, vcho has been appointed to the Med- 

 ical Department of the United States Army, 

 with the rank of captain, has been granted one 

 year's leave of absence by the board of trustees. 

 Assistant Professor Norman MacLeod Harris, 

 of the department of hygiene and bacteriology, 

 ■who has been serving abroad in the Canadian 

 Medical Corps for the past year, has had his 

 leave of absence extended for another year. 



Professor Alfred Atkinson, of the depart- 

 ment of agronomy, at the Montana State Col- 

 lege, has been appointed by Mr. Herbert C. 

 Hoover food commissioner of the state of 

 Montana. 



Professor Herbert W. Mumford, of the 

 University of Illinois, is now associated with 

 the Bureau of Markets of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture as consulting spe- 

 cialist in live-stock marketing. 



Dr. a. C. Trowbridge, of the department of 

 geology of the Iowa State University, has been 

 made director of the T. M. C. A.'s educational 

 work at the Des Moines cantonment. 



EoBERT A. Hall, Ph.D. (Chicago), formerly 

 assistant professor in physiological chemistry 

 at the University of Minnesota, has been ap- 

 pointed to a lieutenancy in the army and is 

 now on his way to France for immediate 

 service. 



Dr. Bennet M. Allen, professor of zoology 

 in the University of Kansas, recently delivered 

 an address on " Experiments upon the glands 

 of internal secretion in amphibian larvffi " be- 

 fore the faculty and students of the graduate 

 summer quarter in medicine of the University 

 of Illinois. 



Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, member of the advisory board 

 of food division of the surgeon-general's 

 office, will visit the several medical officers' 

 training camps and deliver a series of lectures 

 on food values, food needs, and preparation 

 and conservation of food. 



The board of regents of the University of 

 Michigan have approved a plan of Professor 

 Henderson, director of the extension service. 



for the giving of about fifty extension lectures 

 before the troops to be gathered at the Battle 

 Creek Cantonment. These lectures are to be 

 given by members of the faculty without com- 

 pensation, and with the reimbursement by the 

 university to them of their actual traveling 

 and hotel expenses, for which the university 

 extension fund already provides. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has received 

 a gift from Mme. Beauregard to found a me- 

 morial to M. Clement Felix, the well-knovni 

 electrical engineer. 



Dr. C. O. Trechmann, of Hartlepool, Eng- 

 land, who, while engaged in the manufacture 

 of Portland cement, made contributions to 

 mineralogy, crystallography and entomology, 

 died on June 29. 



George Wilber Hartwell, professor of 

 mathematics and registrar in Hamline Uni- 

 versity, St. Paul, died on July 23 of appendi- 

 citis. Dr. Hartwell was born in New Jersey in 

 1881 and was graduated from Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity in 1903. After two years spent in 

 teaching in the Michigan Agricultural Col- 

 lege, he went to Columbia University on a 

 fellowship, and there took the Ph.D degree in 

 1908. After filling a one-year vacancy in the 

 University of Kansas, where he was elected to 

 Sigma XI, he went to Hamline University as 

 professor. The year following he became regis- 

 trar, and continued in these positions until his 

 death. He was a member of the American 

 Mathematical Society and several similar for- 

 eign societies. The correspondent who sends 

 us this information writes that Dr. Hartwell 

 was not only a scholar of brilliant powers, but 

 he was an executive officer of such tact and 

 ability and a man of such decision and force 

 that his loss to the college and his associates 

 can hardly be estimated. 



At Liverpool University an advisory com- 

 mittee of ten members has been formed in 

 order to develop the chemical industry after 

 the war; it consists of four members of the 

 chemical staff of the university and six others 

 representing the chemical industries. 



The annual meeting of the American Public 

 Health Association, which was to have been 

 held in New Orleans in December, wiU be held 



