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SCIENCE 



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The following committees have been named 

 by the president of the American Chemical 

 Society : 



1. Committee to Cooperate with the Society for 

 the Promotion of Engineering Education on Edu- 

 cational Problems : H. P. Talbot, E. H. McKee, S. 

 W. Parr. 



2. Committee on Publication of Compendia of 

 Chemical Literature: Julius Stieglitz, John Johns- 

 ton, E. C. PrankUn, J. C. Olaen, James Kendall. 



3. Committee to Consider Allocation of Federal 

 Grants for Scientific and Industrial Research: W. 

 R. Whitney, C. L. Alsberg, John Johnston, W. D. 

 Bigelow, Wm. MoPherson. 



4. Comjnittee to Formulate a Method of Coopera- 

 tion with the National Research Council: W. D. 

 Bancroft, Atherton Seidell, W. F. HiUebrand, F. G. 

 Cottrell, C. L. Parsons. 



5. Committee on Coordination of Chemical Work 

 within the War Department: C. H. Herty, E. P. 

 Kohler, H. P. Talbot, John Johnston. 



6. Omnibus Committee for Spring Meeting: A. 

 D. Little, B. C. Hesse, F. M. Dorsey, T. B. Wag- 

 ner, R. F. Bacon, C. G. Deriok, L. C. Drefahi. 



We learn from the Journal of the American 

 Medical Association that a health commis- 

 sion of the Allies has been formed containing 

 representatives of most of tlie large nations 

 allied against Germany. A subcommission 

 was recently appointed by Professor Santo- 

 liquido, delegate from Italy, and president of 

 the commission. The subcommission will 

 meet in Paris on the first or fifteenth of each 

 month to corisider the most important sani- 

 tary problems regarding demobilization, the 

 occupation of territory formerly invaded, the 

 military occupation of enemy territory as 

 related not only to the health of the troops, 

 but also to the civilians concerned. The per- 

 sonnel of the subcommission is : president 

 M. le Professeur Saiitoliquido, Conseiller 

 d'Etat Delegue de I'ltalie dans le Comite de 

 I'Office International d'Hygiene publique; M. 

 le Medecin Principal de premiere Class Mais- 

 triau. Commandant du Groupement Regional 

 du Service de Sante a Rouen; M. le Medecin 

 General Jan; M. le Col. Richard P. Strong, 

 Director Department of Medical Research 

 and Intelligence, A. R. C, M. le Col. W. W. 

 O. Beveridge, C.B., D.S.O., Assistant Director 



of Medical Services for Sanitation, Professor 

 of Hygiene Royal Army Medical College; 

 M. le Medecin Major Levi; M. Coussol; 

 M. de Lieutenant Colonel Medecin Professeur 

 A. Castellani; M. de Cazotte, Ministre Pleni- 

 potentaire. Director de I'Office International 

 d'Hygiene publique; M. le Docteur Pottevin, 

 Directeur Adjoint. 



Promotions in, and appointments to, the 

 Civil Division of the Order of the British 

 Empire for services in connection with the 

 war were published on January 9. The list 

 includes five Knights Grand Cross of lie 

 Order (G.B.E.), six Dames Grand Cross 

 (G.B.E.), forty-nine Knights Commanders 

 (K.B.E.), one hundred and seventy-eight 

 Commanders (C.B.E.), and five hundred and 

 thirty Officers (O.B.E.). Nature selects the 

 following names of men known in scientific 

 circles: E.B.E.: W. J. Pope, FR.S., pro- 

 fessor of chemistry, University of Cambridge; 

 Aubrey Strahan, F.R.S., director of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Great Britain; Cecil L. 

 Budd, INon-ferrous Metals Department, Min- 

 istry of Munitions; and W. J. Jones, Iron 

 and Steel Production Department, Ministry 

 of Munitions. C.B.E.: J. W. Cobb, Livesey 

 professor of coal, gas and fuel industries, 

 University of Leeds; H. H. Dale, F.R.S., 

 director of pharmacology and chemotherapy 

 imder the Medical Research Committee; A. 

 Eichholz, senior assistant medical officer. 

 Board of Education; J. C. M. Garnett, prin- 

 cipal, Municipal College of Technology, Man- 

 chester; Lieutenant Colonel R. J. Harvey- 

 Gibson, professor of botany, University of 

 Liverpool; and P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S., 

 secretary of the Zoological Society of London. 

 O.B.E.: J. B. Bailie, professor of philosophy, 

 University of Aberdeen; W. Foord-Kelcey, 

 professor of mathematics and mechanics. 

 Royal Military Academy; aud W. E. S. 

 Turner, head of the department of glass tech- 

 nology, University of Sheffield. 



I^f the course of lectures of the Chicago 

 Academy of Sciences dealing with problems 

 of reconstruction, one on " Scientific Leader- 

 ship of the World" was given by Professor 



