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military sanitary units. Dr. Preston has ap- 

 pointed the following committee to carry out 

 these plans: Drs. Marvin L. Graves, Galves- 

 ton; John S. Turner, Dallas; George F. 

 Powell, Terrell; Thomas B. Bass, Abilene; 

 James E. Nichols, Austin, and John W. 

 Bradfield, Austin. 



Dr. G. Bachmann, professor of physiology 

 in the Emory University School of Medicine, 

 has been appointed cardio-vascular examiner 

 with the rank of first lieutenant and has been 

 assigned to duty at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, 

 Ga. 



Major Chaeles F. Hoover, professor of 

 medicine, "Western Reserve University and as- 

 sistant director of Lakeside Base Hospital in 

 France, is now in Cleveland on leave of ab- 

 sence. 



Dr. Reston Stevenson, assistant professor 

 in charge of physical chemistry in the Col- 

 lege of the City of New York, has been ap- 

 pointed captain of the Sanitary Corps of the 

 United States Army. 



Several members of the faculty of the Penn- 

 sylvania State College are on leave of absence 

 for national work. Professor E. D. Walker, 

 head of the department of civil engineering, is 

 captain in Company A, of the 5th regiment of 

 Engineers, which left Pittsburgh about July 

 8 for foreign service. Professor Hugo Diemer, 

 head of the department of industrial engineer- 

 ing, has received a commission as major in the 

 Ordnance Department. He is at present lo- 

 cated at Lowell, Mass., in charge of the inspec- 

 tion of fire arms. Other members of the fac- 

 ulty who are in military service are Mr. J. J. 

 Light, of the department of mechanical engi- 

 neering, who has been commissioned a cap- 

 tain; Lieutenants Steel, Long and Bryans, of 

 the department of civil engineering, are on 

 duty at various camps; Mr. Mills, of the elec- 

 trical engineering department, is in "Washing- 

 ton on naval construction. 



Of the members of the instructing staff of 

 the department of chemistry at the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, Professors 

 W. H. "Walker and J. F. Norris, Dr. F. H. 

 Smyth and Mr. R. E. "Wilson are on leave 



of absence, and Professor W. K. Lewis de- 

 votes only part of his time to the institute 

 during the present year. All these men are 

 actively engaged on gas-defense problems, 

 and are holding responsible positions in the 

 organization which is dealing with these 

 problems at "Washington and elsewhere. Pro- 

 fessor A. A. Noyes spends a part of his time 

 at "Washington, in connection with the work 

 of the National Research Council and the 

 Nitrate Committee. Professors Mulliken, 

 Spear and Mueller have also been engaged at 

 the institute on investigations relating to gas- 

 defence. Professors F. J. Moore and H. P. 

 Talbot gave, during a portion of the summer, 

 courses of instruction to students who were 

 expecting to apply for commissions in the 

 Reserve Officers Training Corps. 



Amoko the appointments recently made in 

 the state department of education and registra- 

 tion by the governor of Illinois are those of 

 Professor Thomas C. Chamberlin, head of the 

 department of geology at the University of 

 Chicago, and Professor John Merle Coulter, 

 head of the department of botany at the same 

 institution, to the Board of Natural Resources 

 and Conservation. Professor Chamberlin is 

 commissioner of the Illinois Geological Survey 

 and has been president of the Illinois Academy 

 of Sciences. Professor Coulter is now the 

 president of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 

 and has been for many years a special agent in 

 botany for the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. The Board of Natural Resources 

 and Conservation is part of the state depart- 

 ment of education and registration, at the head 

 of which is Francis Wayland Shepardson, 

 formerly associate professor of American his- 

 tory at the University of Chicago. 



Frank Carney, Ph.D., professor of geology 

 and geography at Denison University, has re- 

 signed to enter the employ of The National Re- 

 fining Company of Cleveland, Ohio. 



Professor H. F. Clell.and, secretary of the 

 New England Intercollegiate Geological Excur- 

 sion, announces that the excursion will be taken 

 on Friday and Saturday, October 12 and 13, 

 and will be in charge of Professor J. B. "Wood- 

 worth, of Harvard University, and Dr. Edward 



