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sion as captain in the food division of the 

 Sanitary Corps of the National Army. 



Dr. Frank C. Gephart, chemist of the Ens- 

 sell Sage Institute of Pathology, has received 

 a commission as captain in the Sanitary Corps, 

 United States National Army, with headquar- 

 ters at the Surgeon General's office, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Dr. H. E. Glascock has resigned from the 

 professorship of biology at De Pauw Univer- 

 sity and will engage in service with the Med- 

 ical Corps. 



The War Department has refused to ac- 

 cept the resignation of Dr. James W. Inches, 

 health officer of Detroit, from the Detroit Col- 

 lege of Medicine and Surgery Base Hospital 

 No. 36, in order to allow him to accept an ap- 

 pointment by the American Eed Cross as one 

 of the fifteen commissioned specialists to study 

 conditions abroad. 



B. K. CoGHL.iN has resigned as associate pro- 

 fessor of highway engineering at the Agricul- 

 tural and Mechanical College of Texas. He is 

 captain in the Engineer Officers' Eeserve 

 Corps and has been ordered to Ft. Leaven- 

 worth. E. O. Francisco, who was assistant pro- 

 fessor of civil engineering at the college dur- 

 ing the last session, has been commissioned a 

 second lieutenant in the Engineer Officers' Ee- 

 serve Corps and has also been ordered to Ft. 

 Leavenworth. 



Dr. James D. Maddrill, of the Travelers 

 Insurance Company, has become actuary of 

 the bureau of efficiency and economy at Wash- 

 ington. Dr. Maddrill has been in charge of 

 the International Geodetic Observatory at 

 Ukiah, Calif., and instructor in insurance 

 mathematics at the University of California. 

 His position at Washington will call for the 

 preparation of a plan for pensioning all 

 the civil employees of the government, num- 

 bering more than 300,000, and for other cal- 

 culations of an actuarial and statistical na- 

 ture. 



Dr. Lewis E. Harris has been appointed di- 

 rector of the Bureau of Preventable Diseases 

 of the New York City Health Department to 

 succeed Dr. Bertram Waters, who has resigned 



from the Department of Health to resume his 

 private practise. 



Mr. L. E. WARRE>f, for eight years associate 

 chemist in the chemical laboratory of the 

 American Medical Association, has resigned 

 his position to take charge of the research lab- 

 oratories of the New York plant of Wm. E. 

 Warner & Co. 



Dr. MLvurice G. Mehl, former head of the 

 department of geology and director of the 

 school of engineering and geology at the Uni- 

 versity of Oklahoma, has given up his work in 

 that institution and will for the present give 

 his time to a study of the oil and gas condi- 

 tions of Oklahoma and Kansas. 



Professor Junius Henderson, of the Uni- 

 versity of Colorado, has recently returned from 

 an expedition to northern Wyoming. The col- 

 lections obtained consist principally of land 

 shells and fossils. 



Professor C. C. Nutting has recently re- 

 turned from Barbados and other West Indian 

 Islands, where he has been looking over the 

 ground in preparation for a party of zoologists 

 who propose to visit that region next spring. 

 This expedition will be under the auspices of 

 the graduate college of the State University 

 of Iowa, and will consist of instructors and 

 graduate students in zoology; and the plan is 

 to select some suitable point as a base of 

 operations for the exploration and study of 

 typical coral reefs. Dredging will be carried 

 on, probably to a depth of two hundred fath- 

 oms, and a zoological laboratory will be estab- 

 lished on shore. In his preliminary trip Pro- 

 fessor Nutting visited the Islands of St. 

 Thomas, St. Croix, St. Kitts, Antigua, 

 Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia and Barba- 

 dos. The proposed expedition will probably 

 make either Barbados or Antigua the base for 

 their operations. 



The Norwegian explorer, Eoald Amundsen, 

 is at present preparing an Arctic expedition, 

 which will start next March or April. A new 

 expedition ship has been built, replete with 

 every modern requirement in the way of tech- 

 nical equipment. Amundsen intends to take 

 an aeroplane on board to be used for recon- 

 noitering in the Arctic regions. 



