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has received th.e appointment of first lieutenant 

 in tlie Ordnance Officers' Eeserve Corps. 



D. W. Blakeslee, electrical engineer and 

 assistant superintendent, Penn Electrical and 

 Manufacturing Co., Irwin, Pa., has been 

 ordered to report at Washington for active 

 duty as first lieutenant in the Engineer Sec- 

 tion, Officers' Eeserve Corps, United States 

 Army. 



Dr. Edward C Birge, director of the State 

 Bacteriological Laboratory, Jacksonville, Flor- 

 ida, has been given an indefinite leave of ab- 

 sence by the Florida State Board of Health. 

 Dr. Birge has received a commission as cap- 

 tain with the Medical Eeserve Corps of the 

 United States army. 



The Journal of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation states that Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, 

 U. S. Public Health Service, has discovered 

 forty-seven cases of hookworm in seventy-five 

 recruits mobilized for war service, and these 

 findings have caused the United States Public 

 Health Service to recommend the prompt ex- 

 amination for hookworm of all units of the 

 national guard and national army, especially 

 those from the south. 



Surgeon French Simpson, U. S. Public 

 Health Service, has been ordered to Columbia, 

 S. C, to take charge of the campaign against 

 malaria. 



Dr. B. Frank Knause, of Brooklyn, N. T., 

 has been appointed deputy commissioner and 

 sanitary superintendent at a salary of $6,000 

 a year. The appointment is also announced 

 of Dr. Herman Tapley Peck, also of Brook- 

 lyn, as assistant sanitary superintendent at 

 $5,500 a year. 



E. W. Jahnke has been appointed superin- 

 tendent of the state grain and seed laboratory 

 at Bozeman in connection with the State Col- 

 lege of Montana, to succeed B. Whitlock, who 

 resigned to accept a position with the federal 

 department of agriculture in the administra- 

 tion of the grain standardization act. Mr. 

 Whitlock will have his headquarters at Salt 

 Lake, and will superintend the administration 

 of the law over a large part of the northwest. 

 Mr. Jahnke who becomes superintendent at 



Bozeman has been an assistant to Mr. Whit- 

 lock for the past two years. 



Me. Arthur T. Bolton has been appointed 

 curator of Sir John Soane's Museum, Lin- 

 coln's Inn Fields, in succession to the late Mr. 

 W. L. Spiers. 



A Eeuter despatch to the daily papers 

 states that Professor Kenzo Futaki claims to 

 have discovered, after three years' original re- 

 search work in the Japanese Imperial Govern- 

 ment Laboratory, the specific cause of typhus 

 fever. He calls this new germ the Spirochcete 

 exanthematotyphis. 



Dr. Colin G. Fink, for the past ten years 

 in the Eesearch Laboratories of the General 

 Electric Company, has been appointed head 

 of the new Chile Exploration Company labora- 

 tories, located at 202d Street and 10th Ave., 

 New York City. The work in the new labora- 

 tories will be largely research along metal- 

 lurgical and electrochemical lines. 



Dr. L. F. ISTickell, formerly assistant pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at Washington Univer- 

 sity, has resigned to become chemist in the 

 research department of the Monsanto Chemi- 

 cal Works in St. Louis. 



Dr. Charles K. Francis, for the past seven 

 years chemist and professor of petroleum 

 technology in the Oklahoma Agricultural and 

 Mechanical College, has resigned to become 

 chief chemist for the Cosden Oil Company, 

 Tulsa, Okla. 



Professor Francis Eamaley, who has been 

 making vegetation studies in California since 

 February, has returned to his work at the 

 University of Colorado. 



Professor C. E. Clewell, of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, delivered on September 10 

 his fourth annual lecture on the fundamental 

 principles of natural and artificial factory 

 lighting before the junior students in elec- 

 trical and mechanical engineering in the sum- 

 mer term of mechanical technology at the 

 Sheffield Scientific School of Tale University. 



The death is announced of Major-General 

 T. Eosati, surgeon-general of the Italian 

 navy, at the age of fitfty-seven years. He was 



