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of Mines, was elected president of the Joseph 

 A. Holmes Safety Association at its annual 

 meeting at Washington, D. C, last week. Dr. 

 Charles D. Waleott, secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, was named first vice-presi- 

 dent, and Mr. Samuel Gompers, president of 

 the American Federation of Labor, second 

 vice-president. Mi-. Greorge S. Rice, chief min- 

 ing engineei' of the bureau, and Mr. James 

 Lord, of the mining department of the Ameri- 

 can Federation of Labor, were elected di- 

 rectors. 



William M. Corse, general manager of the 

 Monel Metal Corporation, will take active 

 charge of the division of research extension 

 of The National Research Council on April 

 1, succeeding Dr. H. E. Howe, now editor of 

 27(6 Journal of Industrial and Engineering 

 Chemistry. 



0. M. Butler has resigned his position as 

 assistant director of The Forest Products 

 Laboratory, in order to accept the position of 

 director of technical activities of the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association. 



The nominating committee of the Harvard 

 Alumni Association has selected Dr. William 

 Sidney Thayer, Baltimore, former president 

 of the Association of American Physicians, 

 and Dr. Herbert Charles Moffltt, San Fi-an- 

 cisco, professor of medicine, University of 

 California, as eandidateis for the Harvard 

 boai-d of overseers. 



Mrs. Anna Botsford Com stock, who re- 

 tired in September from a professorship of 

 entomology at Cornell University, has been 

 nominated for election as alumni trustee. 



The University of London labor party has 

 adopted as its parliamentary candidate, Dr. 

 W. H. R. Rivers, F. R. S., praelector in natu- 

 ral science, St> John's College, Cambridge. Mr. 

 Sidney Webb, the candidate at the last elec- 

 tion, who is standing for another constituency, 

 pix)posed the adoption of Dr. Rivers, and 

 among those who spoke in his support was 

 Sir Arthur Newsholme, who described Dr. 

 Rivers as the most advanced and original an- 

 thropologist in England. 



Professor F. G. Hopkins and Dr. W. H. R. 

 Rivers have been elected members of the 

 Atheneeum Club for "distinguished eminence 

 in scienca" 



Dr. Wolfgang Kohler has been appointed 

 director of the Bei-lin Psychological Labora- 

 tory, to fill the vacancy caused by the retire- 

 ment of Professor Stmnpf. 



Professor W. W. Watts, F. R. S., has been 

 appointed representative of the University of 

 London at the International Geographical Con- 

 gress to be held in Brussels next August. 



Dr. a. W. Porter, D. Sc, F. R. S., has 

 been appointed a member of the council of the 

 British Photographic Research Association. 



Frank R. Eldred, for many years chief 

 chemist and director of the scientific division 

 of Eli Lilly and Company, and Frederick C. 

 Atkinson, chemical director of the Amei'ican 

 Hominy Company, have organized the firm of 

 Eldred and Atkinson, consulting chemists and 

 engineere, with oflBces in New York City. 



Dr. Charles A. Culver, formerly in charge 

 of the physics department of Beloit College, 

 Wisconsin, was recently elected president of 

 the Radio Research Club of Canada. 



The Board of Regents of the University of 

 Minnesota have granted Professor F. L. Wash- 

 burn, of the division of entomology and zool- 

 ogy, a six months' sabbatical furlough to col- 

 lect insects in certain islands of Polynesia. 

 Expenses of the trip are not paid by the uni- 

 versity, but are provided for tkrough private 

 funds and intei-est in the work on the part of 

 a group of business and professional men in 

 Minneapolis. Mr. Washburn will makei col- 

 lections on Tahiti, Murea, probably the Mar- 

 quesans and possibly in the Cook group. The 

 collection will be the property of the univer- 

 sity. 



Dr. Francis W. Peabodt, assistant profes- 

 sor of medicine at Harvard University, who 

 was recently appointed director of the Thom- 

 dike Memorial Institute, who has been acting 

 in an advisory capacity and holding clinics 

 for the department of medicine of tha Peking 

 Union Medical College during the fir;it tri- 



