October 26, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



407 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. Willum E. Blair, of the University of 

 Chicago, lias been placed in charge of the 

 meteorological service of the Signal Corps, 

 which includes a very extensive program for 

 mapping the highways of the upper air. 



Dean James E. Angell, of the department 

 of psychology at the University of Chicago, 

 has been relieved from his university duties 

 and has gone to "Washington to work in the 

 offices of the National Eesearch Council. 



Professor A. D. Wilson, of the University 

 of Minnesota, and chairman of the Minnesota 

 Food Production Committee has been ap- 

 pointed food administrator for Minnesota. 



Mr. Warren E. Schoonover, instructor in 

 soil biology in the department of agronomy, 

 University of Illinois College of Agriculture, 

 and Agricultural Experiment Station, re- 

 cently enlisted in the Gas Defense Service of 

 the Sanitary Corps, United States Army. He 

 expects to be connected with the Over-seas 

 Eepair Section, No. 1. 



Dr. Thomas McCrae, professor of medicine 

 in Jefferson Medical College, who has been 

 in charge of a large military hospital in Eng- 

 land, has returned home and resumed his prac- 

 tice and teaching in Jefferson College and 

 Hospital. 



Frederick D. Fuller, formerly chief deputy 

 state chemist of Indiana, and more recently in 

 charge of the scientific and educational de- 

 partment of the American Feed Manufactur- 

 ers' Association, has accepted the appointment 

 as chief of the Division of Feed Control Serv- 

 ice, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 College Station, Texas. 



Dr. Philip Castleman has been appointed 

 deputy health commissioner of Boston, and 

 Dr. Honore Van de Velde, assistant director 

 of pathologic laboratories in the health de- 

 partment. Dr. M. Victor Safford, of the 

 Public Health Service, has been appointed 

 epidemiologist of the Boston Health Depart- 

 ment. 



Professor W. L. Oswald, head of the seed 

 laboratory of the University of Minnesota, 

 was made secretary of the association of offi- 



cial seed analysts of North America at a 

 convention held at Detroit, Mich., June 19, 20 

 and 21. 



The College of Physicians of Philadelphia 

 announces that the Alvarenga Prize for 1917 

 has been awarded to Dr. Wilbur C. Davison, 

 Baltimore, for his essay entitled " The Supe- 

 riority of Inoculations with Mixed Triple Vac- 

 cine over successive inoculations with the 

 single vaccines, as shown by Agglutinin 

 Curves in Men and Eabbits." 



Dr. W. J. Holland, director of the Carnegie 

 Museum, Pittsburgh, has received a telegram 

 from St. John's, N. F., announcing the arrival 

 at that point of the expedition which last 

 April started from the Bay of Seven Islands 

 on the Gulf of St. Lawrence for Ungava, on 

 Davis strait, the expedition having succeeded 

 in its object of crossing the peninsula of 

 Labrador from the south to the north. The 

 expedition was financed jointly by the Car- 

 negie Museum, the National Geographic So- 

 ciety and AKred Marshall, of Chicago, who 

 was a member of the party. With Mr. Mar- 

 shall were W. E. C. Todd, the curator of 

 ornithology in the Carnegie Museum, and O. 

 J. Murie, the curator of mammals in the same 

 institution. They took with them a number 

 of Indians. A number of unsuccessful at- 

 tempts have been made previously by explor- 

 ers to cross Labrador from the south to the 

 north. 



Professor J. Paul Goode, of the depart- 

 ment of geography at the University of Chi- 

 cago, is to give an address on " Geographic 

 Influences in the European War," before the 

 Minnesota Educational Assocation, which 

 meets in Minneapolis from October 31 to 

 November 3. 



Professor E. A. Budington, of Oberlin Col- 

 lege, gave an address on Louis Pasteur and 

 his work before the Men's Club of St. An- 

 drews Episcopal Church at Elyria, 0., on Oc- 

 tober 17. 



Eugene T. Eoeiier, editor of the Metal- 

 lurgical and Chemical Engineer, died on Oc- 

 tober 17 at his home in East Orange. He 

 was born in Germany in 1S67, and came to 

 the United States in 1S94. In 1902 he was 



