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of Agriculture; Councilor, Donald Eeddick, 

 Cornell University. Dr. Lyman was also 

 elected Business Manager of Phytopatliology 

 for the year. 



The following were elected officers of the 

 Association of American Geographers at the 

 Baltimore meeting: President, Professor 

 Charles R. Dryer; First Vice-president, Dr. 

 Her'bert E. Gregory; Second Vice-president, 

 Dr. Isaiah Bowman; Secretary, Dr. Oliver L. 

 Fassig; Treasurer, Mr. Francois E. Matthes; 

 Councilor for three years, Professor Eliot 

 Blackwelder. 



Professor C. K. Leith sailed for France on 

 January 1 to act as mineral adviser for the TJ. 

 S. Peace Commission. The party included 

 Chairman B. M. Baruch, of the War Industries 

 Board; Chairman Vance McConnick, of the 

 War Trade Board, and Walter Tower, of the 

 Shipping Board.' For the past year Professor 

 Leith has been in charge of the joint mineral 

 work of these boards, with special reference to 

 regulation of imports and exports. 



Brigadier General William S. Thayer, who 

 has been serving in France, will, on his return 

 to this country within a few days, resume his 

 duties as professor of medicine of the the 

 Johns Hopkins Medical School. Dr. Thayer 

 will take the place of Dr. Theodore 0. Jane- 

 way, who died several months ago while serv- 

 ing on the staff of the Surgeon-General. 



Major John M. Berry, formerly epidemiol- 

 ogist in the ISTew York State Department of 

 Health, has recently been promoted to the 

 rank of lieutenant colonel. 



Dr. Karl T. Compton, assistant professor 

 of physics in Princeton University, has re- 

 turned after a ten months' work for the Re- 

 search Information Service in the capacity of 

 associate scientific attache to the American 

 Embassy in Paris. 



Dr. Ralph E. Wilson has left his work as 

 an aeronautical mechanical engineer. Bureau of 

 Aircraft Production, to accept a jwsition as 

 astronomer, Department of Meridian Astron- 

 omy, Carnegie Institution of Washington, sta- 

 tioned at the Dudley Observatory. 



Mr. Neil M. Judd, assistant curator of an- 

 thropology, U. S. National Museum, has re- 

 turned to Washington after eleven months' 

 service in the aviation section of the national 

 army. 



Dr. Oscar Harder has resigned his position 

 in the research department of N. K. Fairbanks 

 Co., Chicago, 111., to accept a fellowship at the 

 Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. 



Assistant Professor Samuel D. Graydon, 

 recently of the department of descriptive 

 geometry and mechanical drawing, and who 

 has been in continuous service at Stevens In- 

 stitute of Technology as assistant professor 

 since 1892, has been retired under the pro- 

 visions of the Carnegie Foundation. 



Dr. L. Baumann, assistant professor and 

 director of research in the department of 

 internal medicine of the University of Iowa, 

 has resigned his position to take effect at the 

 end of the present college year. He will live 

 in New York City. 



Mr. J. A. McClintock has resigned his po- 

 sition as extension specialist in cotton> truck 

 and forage crop diseases, to which he had been 

 appointed under a joint project between the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture and the 

 Georgia State College of Agriculture. 



At the request of the U. S. Food Adminis- 

 tration, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical 

 Research has granted a leave of absence to 

 Dr. Israel S. Kleiner in order that he might 

 take charge of Professor Lafayette B. Mendel's 

 work at Yale University while the latter is 

 attending the meetings of the Inter-Allied 

 Food Commission abroad. 



Professor Percy F. Frankland is retiring 

 from the Mason chair of chemistry in the 

 University of Birmingham at the end of the 

 current term. In accepting the resignation 

 with great regret, the council has expressed 

 to Professor Franklin its thanks for valuable 

 services rendered to the university during the 

 past twenty-four years. 



At the annual general meeting of the Fara- 

 day Society of London, held on November 12, 



