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Henry W. Stuckeln, Charles E. Park, Charles M. 

 Wareham; Ealph D. Mclntire and Earl P. Steven- 

 son to be instructors, and Roger B. Brown, James 

 F. Maquire, Jr., Alden D. Nute, Chandler T. 

 White, Walter G. Whitman, Edward Zeitfuehs, 

 Louise P. Johnson, Frank F. Hansen, Earle E. 

 Richardson and A. G. Richards to be assistants. 

 Amy Walker to be research assistant in chemistry 

 and Duncan A. Maclnnes research associate and 

 Leon Adler, research assistant in physical chem- 

 istry. In electrical engineering, Edwin A. Ekdahl, 

 and Clifford E. Lansil, to be assistants. In biol- 

 ogy and public health. Dr. Francis H. Slack, to be 

 instructor, and Elmer H. Heath, Jr., to be assist- 

 ant. In physics, Arthur C. Hardy and Joseph DeL. 

 McManus to be assistants. In naval architecture, 

 P. L. Rhodes to be assistant, and Edwin E. Aldrin, 

 George M. Denkinger and Edward P. Warner, to 

 be assistants in aeronautical engineering. In elec- 

 trochemistry, Casimiro Lana to be assistant. In 

 mechanical drawing, Charles E. Mabie and Walter 

 C. F. Gartner to be assistants. In mathematics, 

 W. H. Wilson to be instructor. In business man- 

 agement, Erwin H. Schell to be assistant pro- 

 fessor. In English and modern languages, Frank 

 L. Hewitt, Penfield Roberts and Arthur L. Mc- 

 Cobb to be instructors. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AND THE 

 ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE 



Forty-two per cent, of the teaching staff of 

 the school of medicine, University of Pitts- 

 burgh, have enlisted in the medical service of 

 the government. The follovcing men are in 

 Base Hospital No. 27 : 



Surgery. — Major Robert T. Miller, professor of 

 surgery; Captain Paul E. Sieber, assistant pro- 

 fessor of surgery; Captain Stanley S. Smith, as- 

 sistant professor of ophthalmology; Captain John 

 R. Simpson, assistant professor of otology; Cap- 

 tain Edward J. McCague, instructor in surgery; 

 First Lieutenant J. W. Robinson, instructor in 

 surgery; Captain Eben W. Fiske, demonstrator in 

 orthopedic surgery; First Lieutenant R. J. Frodey, 

 instructor in gynecology; First Lieutenant John H. 

 Wagner, demonstrator in surgery; First Lieuten- 

 ant Bender Z. Cashman, instructor in surgery. 



Medicine. — Major James D. Heard, professor of 

 medicine; Major T. S. Arbuthnot, associate pro- 

 fessor of medicine; Major Howard G. Sehleiter, 

 assistant professor of medicine; First Lieutenant 

 E. E. Snowden, instructor in medicine; First Lieu- 

 tenant A. H. Colwell, instructor in medicine; First 

 Lieutenant C. B. Maits, demonstrator in medicine; 



First Lieutenant A. P. D'Zmura, demonstrator in 

 medicine. 



Laboratory. — Captain H. H. Permar, instructor 

 in pathology; First Lieutenant F. M. Jacob, in- 

 structor in immunology. 



Registrar. — Captain Edward W. zur Horst, dem- 

 onstrator in medicine. 



The following men from the teaching staff 

 have received commissions in the Medical 

 Officers Reserve Corps : 



Dr. E. H. Boots, 

 Dr. D. Hartin Boyd, 

 Dr. Ewing W. Day, 

 Dr. A. W. Duff, 

 Dr. E. M. Entwisle, 

 Dr. Wade Carson, 

 Dr. S. K. FenoUosa, 

 Dr. J. W. Fredette, 

 Dr. H. C. Flood, 

 Dr. Carl Goehring, 

 Dr. J. B. Gold, 

 Dr. J. P. Grifath, 

 Dr. J. L. Gilmore, 

 Dr. E. T. Hood, 

 Dr. F. H. Harrison, 



Mr. J. Garfield Houston, 

 Dr. T. D. Jenny, 

 Dr. H. S. Kenny, 

 Dr. F. V. Lichteufels, 

 Dr. George C. Johnston, 

 Dr. M. B. MagofOn, 

 Dr. C. H. Marcy, 

 Dr. E. W. Meredith, 

 Dr. H. T. Price, 

 Dr. R. V. Robinson, 

 Dr. David Silver, 

 Dr. H. W. Stevens, 

 Dr. W. C. White, 

 Dr. E. E. Wible. 



THE WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENTS AND THE 

 COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 



An executive order has been issued trans- 

 ferring to the service and jurisdiction of the 

 War Department and the ISTavy Department 

 certain vessels, equipment and personnel of 

 the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. 

 It reads as follows : 



In accordance with the authority vested in me 

 by the "Act to temporarily increase the commis- 

 sioned and warrant and enlisted strength of the 

 Navy and Marine Corps and for other purposes," 

 approved May 22, 1917, I Woodrow Wilson, Presi- 

 dent of the United States of America, do hereby 

 declare that a national emergency exists and do 

 direct that there be transferred to the service and 

 jurisdiction of the Navy Department for tempo- 

 rary use the following vessels, including equipment 

 and personal other than commissioned officers 

 thereof: Surveyor, Isis, Bache. 



Also there shall be transferred to the service and 

 jurisdiction of the Navy Department the follow- 

 ing named persons now part of the commissioned 

 personnel of the Coast and Geodetic Survey: 



William E. Parker, 

 Nicholas H. Heck, 

 Clifford G. Quillian, 

 Paul C: Whitney, 

 Francis H. Hardy, 

 Eavmond S. Patton, 

 Gilbert T. Eude, 



Robert F. Luce, 

 Thomas J. Maher, 

 Francis G. Engle, 

 Leon 0. Colbert, 

 Harry A. Seran, 

 Paul M. Trueblood, 

 Richard R. Lukens, 



