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University of Wisconsin, who is chief, Geo- 

 graphical Section, Military Intelligence Di- 

 vision, General Staff, was sent abroad last July 

 as military obsen-er in France and Italy and 

 served at the front with American, British, 

 French and Italian troops. He is now on duty 

 in Paris with the American Commission to 

 Negotiate Peace. 



E. B. Babcock, professor of genetics in the 

 college of agriculture, University of California, 

 has gone to France under the auspices of the 

 United War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. 

 to help carry out the program for the voca- 

 tional education of American soldiers. 



Daniel H. Otis, assistant dean of agricul- 

 ture in the University of Wisconsin, has re- 

 ceived from the government an appointment as 

 farm management specialist in France. 



Dr. J. F. Abbott, professor of zoology at 

 Washington University, has been appointed 

 commercial attache to the American Embassy 

 at Tokyo and will leave for Japan in February. 

 Professor J. C. Merrum, of the National 

 Research Council, returned to his work in pale- 

 ontology at the University of California after 

 attending the Baltimore meetings. 



Professor David Morrill Folsom has re- 

 signed from the chair of mining at Stanford 

 University. 



Professor Joji Sakur.u, director of the 

 newly established Institute of Physical and 

 Chemical Research in Tokyo, Japan, has been 

 visiting scientific institutions in the United 

 States. 



Mr. David Bruce, of London, has been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences in the section of medi- 

 cine and surgery. 



Major F. E. Breithut, Chemical Welfare 

 Service, has been detailed by the War Depart- 

 ment to the War Trade Board to act as chair- 

 man of the chemical group of the price section. 

 Associated with Major Breithut will be: Mr. 

 F. W. Cassebeer, Caxrtain P. W. Carleton, Lieu- 

 tenant Chas. L. Fry, Lieutenant W. N. Jones, 

 Dr. H. L. Lewenberg, Captain W. Lee Lewis, 

 Dr. W. B. Meldrum, Captain H. L. Trumbull. 

 This group of workers is engaged in a study of 



price fluctuation of chemicals during the war 

 and an analysis of its cause and consequence. 

 Fayette S. Curtis, chief engineer of the 

 Xew York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, 

 was elected president of the American Society 

 of Civil Engineers for the year 1919 at the 

 sixty-sixth annual meeting, which ojx^ned in 

 New York City on January 15. The other oflS- 

 cers of the society elected are: Herbert S. 

 Crocker, Denver, Col., and Leonard Metealf, 

 Boston, Mass., vice-president; Arthur S. 

 Tuttle New York, treasurer; George H. 

 Clarke and Jacob S. Langthorn, New York; 

 Charles C. Elwell, New Haven, Conn. ; Willard 

 Beahan, Cleveland, O. ; John W. Alvord, Chi- 

 cago, Ul., and Carl E. Grunsky, San Francisco, 

 Cal., directors. 



At the annual meeting of the Brooklyn Ento- 

 mological Society held on January 16, the fol- 

 lowing officers were elected for 1919 : President, 

 Mr. W. T. Bather; Vice-president, Mr. W. T. 

 Davis; Treasurer, Mr. C. E. Olsen; Recording 

 Secretary, Dr. J. Bequaert; Corresponding 

 Secretary, Mr. J. R. de la Torre Bueno; Li- 

 hrarian, Mr. A. C. Weeks; Curator, Mr. George 

 Frank; Puhlication Committee, Messrs. J. R. 

 de la Torre Bueno, Chas. Schaeffer and George 

 P. Eugelhardt. 



Professor William J. Hale, of tlie depart- 

 ment of chemistry, of the University of Mich- 

 igan, tendered his resignation to the regents 

 at the December meeting of the board. 

 Professor Hale has accepted a position with 

 the Dow Chemical Company, at Midland, 

 Mich., and will devote his entire time to re- 

 search work. 



Dr. S. L. Galpin, who for several years has 

 been a member of the department of geolog^y 

 and mining engineering at Iowa State College 

 is now engaged in development work in the 

 oil fields of Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. 



Mr. Henry Hinds has resigned from the 

 Geological Survey to enter the employ of the 

 Sinclair Oil and Gas Company, at Tulsa, 

 Oklahoma. 



D. D. Berolziieimer, formerly librarian of 

 the American Chemical Society, and of The 

 Chemists' Club, is now assistant technical 



