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Otiier hotels recommended by tlie local com- 

 mittee : 



Minimum rate 

 for aingle room 



Anderson ,Penn and Federal $1.50 



Chatham 423 Penn Ave 1.50 



Colonial Annex . . .Sixth and Penn 1.00 



Fort Pitt Tenth and Penn 2.00 



Henry 417 Fifth Ave 2.00 



Lament Spahr and Adier 1.00 



Lorraine Highland and Rodman . . . 1.00 



Motor Square . . . .Center and Beatty 1.00 



Newell 343 Fifth Ave 1.50 



Schenley Bigelow Blvd. and 5th 2.00 



Seventh Ave Seventh and Liberty .... 1.50 



William Penn Wm. Penn Place 2.50 



Yoder 1112 Forbes St 50 



Bradley M. Davis, 

 Universitt of Pennsylvania, Secretary 

 Philadelphia 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. L. I. Bailey was elected president of 

 the American Pomological Society at the re- 

 cent Boston meeting. 



Dr. John Charles Hessler, professor of 

 chemistry in the James llillikin University at 

 Decatur, Illinois, has been elected to the presi- 

 dency of the Illinois State Academy of Sci- 

 ence. 



At the Chicago meeting of the American 

 College of Surgeons the following were elected 

 fellows : Surgeon General Rupert Blue, United 

 States Public Health Service; Surgeon Gen- 

 eral William C. Gorgas, United States Army; 

 Surgeon General William 0. Braisted, United 

 States Navy; Colonel T. H. Goodwin, British 

 Medical Corps; Colonel C. Dercle, French 

 Medical Corps ; Sir Berkeley Moynihan, Leeds, 

 England. 



Dr. Louis B. Wilson, of the Mayo Founda- 

 tion of the University of Minnesota, has been 

 appointed director of the foundation. 



Frank C. Baker, zoological investigator of 

 the l^ew York State College of Forestry, at 

 Syracuse, formerly acting director of the Chi- 

 cago Academy of Sciences, has been appointed 

 curator of the university museum at the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, where his work will begin 

 within a couple of months. 



A testimonial banquet was given by the 

 Physicians' Club of Chicago, in honor of Dr. 

 Frank Billings, at the Auditoriiun Hotel, on 

 November 1. Dr. Augustus O'Neill acted as 

 toastmaster. A silver loving cup was presented 

 to Dr. Billings on behaK of the Physicians' 

 Club. 



A peerage of the United Kingdom has been 

 conferred upon the Eight Honorable Sir 

 Francis Hopwood, vice-chairman of the De- 

 velopment Commission, and a member of the 

 General Board and Executive Committee of 

 the National Physical Laboratory. 



President Poincare has conferred the Le- 

 gion of Honor upon Dr. John Cadman, C.M.G., 

 professor of mining in the University of Bir- 

 mingham, in recognition of valuable services 

 rendered by him in the cause of the allies. 



Professor I. Bandi has been placed in charge 

 of the newly opened institution at Naples for 

 the production of therapeutic serums and vac- 

 cines as a center for research in hygiene and 

 biology, with special regard to colonial condi- 

 tions. 



P. F. Walker, dean of the engineering 

 school and formerly head of the department of 

 mechanical engineering at the University of 

 Kansas, has been granted an indefinite leave 

 of absence to enter the army. He has received 

 a commission as Lieutenant Colonel and is sta- 

 tioned at Camp Cody, N. M. Professor George 

 C. Shaad has temporarily assumed the duties 

 of dean and Professor Frederick H. Sibley has 

 been made head of the department of mechan- 

 ical engineering. 



James H. Bonner, professor of forestry in 

 the Montana State University, has been ap- 

 pointed captain in the engineers' section of 

 the officers' reserve corps. 



Victor K. La Mer, formerly chemist at the 

 Carnegie Institution, Cold Spring Harbor, 

 Long Island, has received a commission of 

 first lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps. 



President WiLLLiM Jasper Kerr, of the 

 Oregon Agricultural College, has been ap- 

 pointed head of the increased agricultural pro- 

 duction campaign and chairman of the Food 

 Committee of the State Council of Defense. 



