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concerned in an increased agricultural produc- 

 tion" will be held on Friday afternoon, De- 

 cember 28, at 2 o'clock, the subject to be con- 

 sidered under the following five heads : 



Present status of production, Dr. John Lee Coul- 

 ter, dean of agriculture, West Virginia University. 



Peasibility of increasing production. Dean E. 

 Davenport, college of agriculture. University of 

 Illinois. 



Obstacles to enlarged production, Professor W. 



D. Hurd, assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture. 

 Limiting factors in production. Professor Chas. 



E. Thorne, director of the Ohio Experiment Sta- 

 tion. 



The human element, Mr. Herbert Quick, member 

 of the Federal Farm Loan Board. 



The address of the retiring vice-president of 

 the section. Dr. W. H. Jordan, director of the 

 New York State Experiment Station, upon 

 " The future of agricultural education and 

 research in the United States," will be given 

 on Saturday morning, December 29, at 11 

 o'clock. The sessions will be presided over by 

 Dr. H. J. Waters, president of the Kansas 

 State Agricultirral College. They will be held 

 in Eoom 105, Thaw Hall, University of 

 Pittsburgh. 



The symposium deals with a subject of the 

 first importance to agriculture and to the wel- 

 fare of the nation. It will be treated in a 

 semi-popular manner, having in mind the 

 broad general interest relating to it. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Eoyal Society has conferred Eoyal 

 medals on Dr. John Aitken, for his researches 

 on cloudy condensations, and on Dr. Arthur 

 Smith Woodward, for his researches in verte- 

 brate paleonteology, and the Copley medal on 

 M. Emile Eoux, for his services to bacteriol- 

 ogy and as a pioneer in serum therapy; the 

 Davy medal on M. Albin Haller, for his re- 

 searches in organic chemistry; the Buchanan 

 medal on Sir Almroth Wright, for his con- 

 tributions to preventive medicine; and the 

 Hughes medal on Professor C. G. Barkla, for 

 his work on X-ray radiation. 



Dr. Christopher Addison, minister of re- 

 construction in Great Britain, has been ap- 



pointed minister of public health, and hopes 

 to carry a bill through parliament before 

 Christmas, forming a new ministry to forward 

 a place for the nationalization of the medical 

 profession with free medical attendance for 

 every one. 



Major Benedict Crowell, of Cleveland, an 

 engineer officer, now in charge of the Wash- 

 ington ofiice of the Panama Canal, has been 

 appointed assistant secretary of war to suc- 

 ceed William Ingraham, who has become sur- 

 veyor of the Port of Portland. 



Dean Klein, of the veterinary department 

 of the University of Pennsylvania, is at pres- 

 ent in France, having been sent by the gov- 

 ernment on a special mission to General Persh- 

 ing to consult him regarding the organization 

 of the Veterinary Corps, and to make a survey 

 of the situation in France. 



Dr. E. B. Owens, secretary of the Franklin 

 Institute, now in France on leave of absence, 

 acting as head of the Army Intelligence 

 Bureau, has been elevated to the rank of major. 

 He is serving under General Pershing. 



Mr. George E. Holm, research assistant in 

 the division of agricultural biochemistry of the 

 University of Minnesota, has been commis- 

 sioned first lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps. 

 He will be assigned to investigational work in 

 the Gas Defense Service. 



Dr. Charles L. Eeese, chemical director of 

 the du Pont Powder Company, has been elected 

 a member of the board of directors of that 

 company. 



Mr. F. G. Moses has been appointed hydro- 

 metallurgist in the U. S. Bureau of Mines, 

 with headquarters at Salt Lake City station. 



J. W. Turrentine is directing the work of 

 the government's experimental kelp-potash 

 plant at Summerland, near Santa Barbara, 

 Cal. The plant is in operation and is pro- 

 ducing crude potash. Apparatus is now being 

 installed which will make possible the produc- 

 tion of refined potash and by-products, par- 

 ticularly iodine, for both of which chemicals 

 there is a large demand for industrial and 

 military purposes. 



