December 21, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



613 



Professor Anton Julius Carlson, chair- 

 man of the department of physiology, at the 

 University of Cliicago, has been assigned to 

 the Sanitary Corps of the United States Army 

 and is expected soon to be in France. 



Assistant Professor Frederick E. Breit- 

 HUT, in charge of mTmicipal chemistry in the 

 department of chemistry in the College of the 

 City of ITew York, has been appointed di- 

 rector of food conservation by the United 

 States Government Food Commission, to cover 

 the territory of Greater ISTew York City. 



Dr. Hugo Diemer, major in the ordnance 

 department, U. S. E., is in charge of the Ord- 

 nance Inspection at Lowell, Mass., including 

 accountability for all materials of United 

 States property, production progress, shipping, 

 and ballistic inspection. 



Arthur H. N^orton, vice-president, and 

 head of the department of mathematics of 

 Elmira College, has been granted a leave of 

 absence for the remainder of the year. He 

 sailed for France on December 12 to take 

 charge of a Young Mens' Christian Association 

 base camp. 



Professor Arthur "W. Browne, of the de- 

 partment of chemistry of Cornell University, 

 has been appointed chemical expert of the Ord- 

 nance Department. He will continue his 

 work at Cornell University. 



Mr. Ealph McBurney, instructor in the de- 

 partment of bacteriology of Oregon Agricul- 

 tural College, has been commissioned as first 

 lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps of the 

 United States Army. According to orders he 

 has reported at Letterman Hospital, San Fran- 

 cisco. 



To Dr. Edwin F. Hirsch, of the department 

 of pathology, of the University of Chicago, has 

 been given leave of absence for service on the 

 medical staff of the Officers' Reserve, United 

 States Army. 



Dr. Charles W. Stiles, of the United 

 States Public Health Service, has been given 

 jurisdiction over sanitary affairs in the zone 

 about Camp Hancock, near Augusta, Ga., and 



will work in cooperation with the health forces 

 already in operation there. 



Dr. Gustav F. Ruediger, for the last three 

 and a half years director of the Hygienic In- 

 stitute for LaSalle, Peru, and Oglesby, Illi- 

 nois, has resigned that position to become 

 director of the State Hygienic Laboratory of 

 Nevada, University of Nevada, Reno. 



Professor C. L. McArthur, bacteriologist, 

 University of Arkansas, has been appointed to 

 be assistant bacteriologist in the department 

 of bacteriology at Oregon Agricultural Col- 

 lege. 



The council of the Institution of Civil 

 Engineers of Great Britain has made the fol- 

 lowing awards for papers published in the 

 proceedings without discussion during the 

 session 1916-17: A Watt gold medal to Major 

 H. S. B. Whitley (Neath) ; Telford premiums 

 to W. C. Popplewell (Manchester), H. Car- 

 rington (Woodley, Stocliport), Dr. A. A. Stod- 

 dard (Bournemouth), A. E. L. Chorlton (Lin- 

 coln), and B. M. Samuelson (Rangoon) ; the 

 Manby premium to R. Bleazhy (Perth, W.A.) ; 

 the Webb prize to J. B. Ball (London), and 

 the Howard Quinquennial prize to Dr. W. C. 

 Unwin. 



Section K of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science has arranged for 

 a symposium at Pittsburgh on the " Medical 

 lessons of the war." Lieutenant George 

 Loewy, of the French Army, is expected to 

 give the principal paper. 



The third annual meeting of the Mathe- 

 matical Association of America will be held 

 at the University of Chicago on Thursday and 

 Friday, December 27-28, 1917, in conjunction 

 with the Chicago Section of the American 

 Mathematical Society which meets on Friday 

 and Saturday of the same week. The program 

 reports of standing committees will be pre- 

 sented as follows: 



1. Committee on Mathematical Eequirements. 

 "Scientific investigations of the committee," Pro- 

 fessor A. E. Crathorne, University of Illinois. 

 ' ' The work of a committee representing the Cen- 

 tral Association of Science and Mathematics 

 Teachers," Mr. J. A. Foberg, Crane Junior Col- 

 lege, Chicago. 



