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committee was appointed to prepare for pub- 

 lication the technical reports. 



Major George E. deSchweinitz, Medical 

 Reserve Corps, has been assigned to active 

 duty at Philadelphia for the purpose of com- 

 piling a handbook on ophthalmology for the 

 use of the surgeon-general of the army. 



Frederick B. Mumford, dean of the Mis- 

 souri College of Agriculture, director of the 

 experiment station of the University of Mis- 

 souri, and chairman of the Missouri council 

 of defense, has been chosen federal food ad- 

 ministrator for Missouri. 



The deputy-controller for auxiliary ship- 

 building, of the British admiralty, has ap- 

 pointed Lieutenant-Colonel J. Mitchell Mon- 

 criefi to be director of engineering work, to 

 deal generally with all civil engineering mat- 

 ters which may arise in connection with his 

 department. 



The post of director of food economy at the 

 Ministry of Food of Great Britain has been 

 undertaken by Sir Arthur Yapp, the national 

 secretary of the T. M. C. A. 



Among the members of the faculty of the 

 University of California Medical School who 

 have been called into active service in the 

 Medical Officers Reserve Corps are Dr. Her- 

 bert C. Moffitt, San Francisco, professor of 

 medicine and dean of the medical school, who 

 has been commissioned major, and stationed 

 at the Army Hospital at San Antonio, Texas ; 

 Dr. Eugene S. Kilgore, who has been com- 

 missioned major, and is stationed at the Pre- 

 sidio in San Francisco; Dr. Alanson Weeks, 

 instructor in surgery, commissioned major; 

 Dr. Howard E. Ruggles, assistant clinical pro- 

 fessor of roentgenology, and Dr. Jule B. 

 Frankenheimer, instructor in medicine, com- 

 missioned captains ; and Drs. Elbridge J. Best, 

 Frank P. Brendel, Arthur C. Gibson, Charles 

 L. Tranter and Daniel W. Sooy, commissioned 

 first lieutenants. 



The faculty of applied science of Columbia 

 University has lost, temporarily at least, many 

 of its officers, who are now engaged in govern- 

 ment work. Professors Moss, Sleffel, and 

 Thomas, of the department of mechanical 



engineering, and Mr. Mason, of the depart- 

 ment of electrical engineering, are instructors, 

 with the rank of lieutenant, in the naval re- 

 serve, in the naval engieering school con- 

 ducted on the campus; Professor Arendt, of 

 the department of electrical engineering, is 

 in charge of electrical instruction at the sub- 

 marine base at New London; Professor Webb, 

 of the department of physics, is a captain in 

 the Signal Corps; Dr. Thomas, of the depart- 

 ment of chemistry, and Dr. Burwell and Mr. 

 Brown, of the department of sanitary engi- 

 neering, are in the sanitary corps of the army; 

 Professor Beans, of the department of chem- 

 istry, and Mr. McGregor, of the department 

 of civil engineering, are in charge of chemical 

 and mechanical tests for the Aircraft Produc- 

 tion Board; Professor Campbell, of the de- 

 partment of metallurgy, is consulting metal- 

 lurgist for the navy, and Professor Walker, of 

 the department of metallurgy, is in the ord- 

 uaiice department of the army. 



The Maryland Geological and Economic 

 Survey Commission, which consists of the gov- 

 ernor of the state, the presidents of the Johns 

 Hopkins University and the Maryland Agri- 

 cultural College, and the state comptroller, has 

 elected Professor Edward Bennett Mathews, 

 for many years assistant state geologist, as 

 state geologist to succeed the late Wm. Bul- 

 lock Clark. 



As a war emergency measure the National 

 Forest ranges are carrying this summer ap- 

 proximately 100,000 more cattle and 200,000 

 more sheep than in ordinary years, according 

 to the grazing experts of the forest service. 

 Ordinarily the National Forests furnish pas- 

 turage for about 1,800,000 cattle and horses 

 and 7,800,000 head of sheep. The number of 

 livestock permitted on the forests is limited in 

 order to prevent damage to timber growth, 

 water supplies and the range itself. This year 

 exceptional weather conditions combined with 

 the general food situation to create an unusual 

 emergency, calling for special provisions to 

 take care of the stock. A severe winter and 

 late spring exhausted the hay supply and 

 forced use of the spring ranges before they had 

 reached their normal state. To lessen the 



