September 14, 1917] 



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Inspector of ammunition packing boxes $3.52 a day 



to $1,800 year. 

 Inspector and assistant inspector of powder and 



explosives, $1,400 to $2,400 a year. 

 Inspector of ordnance equipment, $1,500 to $2,400 



a year. 

 Assistant inspector of cloth equipment, $80 to $125 



a month. 

 Assistant inspector of leather, $100 to $125 a 



month. 

 Assistant inspector of small hardware, $80 to $125 



a month. 

 Assistant inspector of textiles, $80 to $125 a 



month. 

 Assistant inspector of leather equipment, $100 to 



$125 a month. 

 Clerk qualified in business administration, $1,200 



to $1,500 a year. 

 Index and catalogue clerk, $1,000 to $1,200 a year. 



The examination for index and catalogue 

 clerk is open to both men and women; the 

 other examinations are open only to men. 



The president of the commission writes that 

 the government urgently needs men for the 

 work above indicated, and qualified persons 

 are urged, as a patriotic duty, to apply for ex- 

 amination. Until further notice applications 

 for the positions named will be received at any 

 time by the United States Civil Service Com- 

 mission, Washington, D. C. Papers will be 

 rated promptly. Applicants will not be re- 

 quired to appear at any place for examination, 

 but will be rated principally upon the elements 

 of education, training and experience, as shown 

 by their applications and by corroborative evi- 

 dence. 



Full information concerning examinations, 

 application blanks, etc., may be obtained by 

 calling in person upon the secretary of the 

 local board of civil service examiners at the 

 post office in any city in which city delivery 

 of mail has been established, or by communi- 

 cating with the United States Civil Service 

 Commission, Washington, D. C. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Sm Clifford Allbutt has been continued 

 in the office of president of the British Med- 

 ical Association for the coming year. It is 



hoped that a meeting will be held at Cambridge 

 next year. 



Professors Golgi, Novaro and Poster, hav- 

 ing reached the age of seventy-five years, auto- 

 matically retired from their chairs in Italian 

 universities. Professors Golgi and Novaro are 

 both senators of the realm. The former is 

 professor of general pathology at Pavia, and 

 Novaro of surgery at Genoa. Poster is pro- 

 fessor of hygiene at Florence. 



The Secretary of War announces the ap- 

 pointment of the following to investigate the 

 matter of defective ammunition sent to the 

 American expeditionary force in France: Dr. 

 H. P. Talbot, professor of chemistry at the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. C. 

 L. Parsons, chief chemist of the Bureau of 

 Mines; an army officer to be named by Major 

 General Hugh L. Scott, Chief of Staff. 



The United States Food Administration an- 

 nounces that Professor H. A. Morgan, of Knox- 

 ville, Tenn., has been appointed federal food 

 administrator for Tennessee. 



Dr. Arthur M. Shipley, of Baltimore, pro- 

 fessor of surgery at the University of Mary- 

 land, who had received his commission as chief 

 of the surgical staff of the University of Mary- 

 land Base Hospital Unit, has been detached 

 from the unit by order of the War Department, 

 and ordered to report immediately to Camp 

 Meade as chief surgeon and surgical instructor 

 at the camp. 



E. E". Westworth, professor of animal 

 breeding at the Kansas State Agricultural Col- 

 lege, has received a commission of captain in 

 field artillery. For the present he will be sta- 

 tioned at Fort Eiley. 



Egbert A. Patterson, Ph.D., instructor in 

 physics in Tale College, has been commis- 

 sioned captain in the field artillery section of 

 the Reserve Officers' Corps, and assigned to 

 the camp at Ayer, Mass. 



Dr. Leon I. Shaw, of the department of 

 chemistry of Northwestern University, has 

 been advanced to the position of assistant 

 professor of chemistry on leave of absence for 

 one year for service with the government. He 



