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moted to a full professorship, and has resumed 

 his work in physical chemistry. 



Captain R. H. Wheeler, professor of i>sy- 

 chology in the University of Oregon, who has 

 been conducting psjxhological tests in the 

 army, lias returned to take up his work at the 

 universdty. 



Major Maurice Daufresne, the well-known 

 French cliemist is visiting the United States. 



L. E. Call, head of the department of 

 agronomy in the Kan.sas State Agricultural 

 College, is leaving for France, where he will 

 have charge of the work in grain croi}s for 

 soldiers taking work in agriculture. 



Professor Ch.\rles E. Munroe, of George 

 Washington University, chairman of the Com- 

 mittee on Explosives of the National Research 

 Council, visited Boston to make an investiga- 

 tion of the circumstances connected with the 

 recent collapse of a huge molasses tank which 

 caused the death of several people. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that Lieutenant Colonel 

 H. Gideon Wells. Chicago, left the United 

 States early in November as a member of the 

 Balkan commission of the American Red 

 Cross. The armistice and the cessation of 

 hostilities made necessary a change in plans. 

 He has now been detached from the iwsition 

 in connection with the commission to the 

 Balkan states, and has been appointed com- 

 mi.ssioner representing the Red Cross in Rou- 

 manin. He has organized a commission of 

 sixty-eight persons to undertake general relief 

 work instead of medical relief work alone, as 

 there is a well developed medical profession in 

 Roumania. The medical men of the party, 

 aside from Lieutenant Colonel Wells, are Lieu- 

 tenant Colonel Morley D. McNeal, of Johns 

 Hopkins. Baltimore, and Major J. Brecken- 

 ridge Bayne, Washington, D. C. The latter 

 was two years in Roumania. kept there prac- 

 tically as a prisoner during the German occu- 

 pation, although allowed to do medical work 

 among the Roumanian people. 



At the annual meeting of the Association of 

 of American State Geologists held in Balti- 

 more, December 27-28, 1918, the following 



officers were elected for the year 1919 : W. O. 

 Hotchkiss (Wisconsin), president; Edward B. 

 Mathews (Maryland), member executive com- 

 mittee; Thomas L. Watson (Virginia), secre- 

 tary. The association was addressed on De- 

 cember 28 by Messrs. George Otis Smith, di- 

 rector, United States Geological Survey; H. 

 Foster Bain, assistant director. Bureau of 

 Mines and Professor John C. Merriam, of the 

 National Research Council. The following 

 standing committees were appointed: Coopera- 

 tive geological problems: H. A. Bueliler (Mis- 

 souri), chairman, J. M. Clarke (New York), 

 J. A. Udden (Texas), and J. Hyde Pratt 

 (North Carolina). Strengthening of State 

 Surveys: H. B. Kiinimel (New Jersey), chair- 

 man, H. E. Gregory (Connecticut), and W. H. 

 Emmons (Minnesota). Topographic mapping : 

 W. O. Hotchkiss (Wisconsin), chairman, P. 

 W. DeWolf (Illinois), and R. V. Allen (Mich- 

 igan.). 



The board of commissioners of the Wiscon- 

 sin Geological and Natural History Survey at 

 a meeting held in the office of Governor Philipp 

 on January 16, 1919, elected President E. A. 

 Birge, of the University of Wisconsin, as presi- 

 dent of tlie board of commissioners. Owing 

 to his new duties Dr. Birge felt it incumbent 

 upon him to resign from the position of di- 

 rector and superintendent of the sun'ey, which 

 position he has held since it was organized in 

 1897. W. O. Hotchkiss, who has been state 

 geologist for the survey since 1909 was made 

 director and superintendent in addition to 

 holding his present position as state geologist. 



Professor A. M. Chickerinc;, of Albion Col- 

 lege, Michigan, has recently been elected to the 

 vice-presidency of the section of zoology of 

 the Michigan Academy of Science, to fill out 

 the unexpired term of Professor Tveathers, of 

 Olivet College. 



W. M. Smallwood, professor of comparative 

 anatomy, Syracuse University, is spending the 

 second semester on leave of absence at the 

 University of Minnesota, working with Dean 

 J. B. Johnston in comparative neurology. 



Professor A. Laveran, a member of the 

 Paris Academie de medecine since 1893, has 



