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ary 18 elected as president Horace V. Win- 

 chell, of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Other 

 officers elected were as follows : Vice-presi- 

 dents: Edwin Ludlow, Lansford, Pa.; A. R. 

 Ledoux, New York, N. Y. Directors: J. V. 

 W. Eeynders, ISTew York, N. Y.; George D. 

 Barron, Eye, IST. Y.; Charles F. Rand, N"ew 

 York, N. Y. ; Louis S. Crates, Ray, Arizona; 

 Stanley A. Easton, Kellogg, Idaho. A memo- 

 rial meeting was held during the afternoon 

 for members who fell in service. The number 

 of those who served in the Army or Navy 

 reached some eight hundred, and information 

 had been received of the death of twenty- 

 five of these. 



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

 the Univesrsity of Missouri, has been ap- 

 pointed commercial attache to the American 

 Embassy at Tokyo. 



Professor E. C. Eeanklin returned to 

 Stanford University, California, in December, 

 after spending the greater part of the past 

 year in research on the synthetic process for 

 the fixation of nitrogen. 



Dr. Chas. H. Herty, editor of the Journal 

 of Industrial Chemistry, has been appointed 

 chairman of a committee of the American 

 Chemical Society on an Institute for Drug 

 Research. 



At their last meeting, held February 3, the 

 trustees of The American Museum of Natural 

 History elected Mr. Herbert L. Bridgman of 

 New York an honorary fellow, in recognition 

 of his valuable assistance rendered by service 

 on a ntunber of its most important explor- 

 ation committees, and in special acknowledg- 

 ment of his contribution to the advancement 

 of science and education through his writings 

 in the public press. 



Dr. Louis Blaringhem, professor of agricul- 

 tural biology at the Sorbonne, has been ap- 

 pointed exchange professor at Hansard Uni- 

 versity for 1918-19. Professor Blaringhem's 

 term of service will fall in the second half- 

 year. 



The Janssen Prize of the Astronomical 

 Society of France has been awarded to M. G. 

 Raymond. 



Sir Aubrey Strahan, director of the Eng- 

 lish Geological Survey, has been elected an 

 honorary member of the British Institution 

 of Petroleum Technologists. 



Dr. G. Grandidier has been elected secretary 

 of the French Geographical Society to fill the 

 vacancy caused by the death of Baron Hulot. 

 , Mr. J. C. Hostetter, of the geophysical 

 laboratory, Carnegie Institution, has returned 

 to Washington after a year's albsence in charge 

 of optical glass manufacture at Pitts/burgh. 



Dr. L. O. Grondahl, after having been com- 

 missioned a captain in the Ordnance Corps of 

 the Army and having spent the last eighteen 

 months in work on one of the problems of the 

 Naval Consulting Board, has returned to his 

 position as associate professor of physics, Car- 

 negie Institute of Technology. 



After twenty-one years of service in the 

 Detroit high school and the junior college, 

 Mr. Louis Murbaeh has resigned his position 

 as head of the department of biology. His 

 permanent address will be Castleton, Vt. He 

 is succeeded by Mr. Norman StoU, M.S., who 

 besides high school experience has lately been 

 teaching assistant in the department of zoology 

 in the University of Michigan. 

 , Major Edwin A. Ziegler, who had charge 

 of the courses in orientation at the Coast Ar- 

 tillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia, has re- 

 sumed his work as director of the Pennsylva- 

 nia State School of Forestry at Mount Alto. 



Professor J. S. Illick^ of the Pennsylvania 

 State School of Forestry, has been appointed 

 chief of the Bureau of Sylviculture in the 

 Pennsylvania De(partment of Forestry. 



Lewis A. Zimm has accepted an appodntmpnt 

 as extension forester for Georgia and is con- 

 nected with the Georgia State College of Agri- 

 culture. Mr. Zinun has been instructor in 

 forestry and plant pathology at Cornell Uni- 

 versity and spent a season in dendropatholog- 

 ical field work under Dr. Meiuicke on the 

 Pacific coast prior to his being commissioned 

 in the army. 



Dr. H. N. Holmes, head of the department 

 of chemistry at Oberlin College, has finished 

 a special piece of investigation connected with 



