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Veterinary Officers' Reserve Corps. Dr. Moore 

 is a member of the committee on military serv- 

 ice of the American Veterinary Medical Asso- 

 ciation. That committee had been serving as 

 a board advisory to the Surgeon General and 

 Dr. Moore was elected to represent it in the 

 Surgeon General's office. 



Dr. a. E. D.wis, assistant professor of agri- 

 cultural botany, the University of Nebraska, 

 has been commissioned captain in the Coast 

 Artillery, U. S. R. He is at present assistant 

 ordnance officer. Fort Howard, Maryland. 



C.\RL H. BuTMAN, who has been editorial as- 

 sistant at the Smithsonian Institution for the 

 last seven years, has resigned to become Wash- 

 ington editor of a new aviation magazine, Air 

 Service Journal. 



Pr»fessor Arthur D. Butterfield, head of 

 the department of mathematics of the Wor- 

 cester Polytechnic Institute, has resigned, as 

 he expects to be called for service as captain 

 in the aviation branch of the signal corps. 

 Professor David L. Gallup, head of the gas 

 engineering department, will also resign on 

 October 1, having accepted a position as head 

 of the research laboratories of the Nordyke & 

 Marmon Company. 



Professor A. M. Buck, who for the last six 

 years has been in charge of electric railway 

 courses at the University of Illinois, has re- 

 signed to join Mr. John A. Beeler, of New 

 York, in the consulting field. His new work 

 will consist largely of investigations dealing 

 with the construction, operation and manage- 

 ment of electric railway properties. 



Dr. Max Kahx has resigned his position as 

 biochemist to the Western Pennsylvania Hos- 

 pital, Pittsburgh, Pa., to accept the appoint- 

 ment of director of the laboratories, Beth Is- 

 rael Hospital, New York City. 



George H. Stickney, of Montclair, N. J., has 

 been elected president of the Illuminating 

 Engineering Society. 



The recently established Engineering Coun- 

 cil has appointed the following standing com- 

 mittees: On Public Affairs — C. W. Baker, G. 

 F. Swain, S. J. Jennings and E. W. Rice, Jr. 

 On Rules — J. P. Channing, Clemens Herschel, 



N. A. Carle and D. S. Jacobus. On Finance — 

 B. B. Thayer, I. E. Moultrop, Calvert Town- 

 ley and Alexander C. Humphreys. The coun- 

 cil has also created a war inventions com- 

 mittee, comprising H. W. Buck, A. M. Greene, 

 Jr. and E. B. Kirkby, to cooperate with the 

 Naval Advisory Board and other departments 

 at Washington. It also created a committee, 

 comprising George J. Foran, E. B. Sturgis, A. 

 S. McAllister and A. D. Flinn, which is to col- 

 lect and compile such information regarding 

 engineers of the country as will enable it to 

 cooperate with the different departments of 

 the federal government. 



It is stated in Nature that a committee to 

 inquire into various matters connected with 

 the personnel and administration of the army 

 medical services has been appointed by the 

 British Secretary of State for War. The com- 

 mittee is composed of Major-General Sir F. 

 Howard (chairman). Sir Rickman J. Godlee, 

 Bart, Sir Frederick Taylor, Bart., Sir W. Wat- 

 son-Cheyne, Bart., Dr. Norman Walker, Lieu- 

 tenant-Colonel A. J. Stiles, Dr. Buttar and Dr. 

 J. B. Christopherson (secretary). It will be- 

 gin its work in France, and afterwards carry 

 out similar investigations in England. 



Two new orders have been instituted by the 

 British king in recognition of services rend- 

 ered by British subjects and their Allies in con- 

 nection with the war, viz., the Order of the 

 British Empire and the Order of the Compan- 

 ions of Honor. The Order of the British Em- 

 pire has five classes, viz.: Men: (1) Knights 

 Grand Cross (G.B.E.) ; (2) Knights Com- 

 manders (K.B.E.) ; (3) Commanders (C.B.E.) ; 

 (4) Officers (O.B.E.) ; (5) Members (M.B.E.). 

 Women: (1) Dames Grand Cross (G.B.E.) ; 

 (2) Dames Commanders (D.B.E.) ; (3) Com- 

 manders (C.B.E.) ; (4) Officers (O.B.E.) ; (5) 

 Members (M.B.E.). The first two classes, in 

 the case of men, carry the honor of knighthood, 

 and ill the ease of women the privilege of pre- 

 fixing the title " Dame " to their names. The 

 first lists of appointments to the orders have 

 been issued. Nature selects the following as 

 those known for contributions to science: To 

 the Order of the British Empire: Lord Moul- 

 ton and Lord Sydenham (G.B.E.) ; Mr. Dugald 



