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serving with the Medical Corps af the U. S. 

 Army. 



Dr. p. W. Bridgman has returned from the 

 naval experimental station at New London, 

 Connecticut, to his work in the Jefferson Phys- 

 ical Laboratory, Harvard University. 



Dr. Edgar Buckingham, who has been asso- 

 ciated with the work of the scientific attache 

 of the American Embassy in Rom.e, has re- 

 turned to WashrQgton. 



Professor Moses Gomberg, of the depart- 

 ment of chemistry of the University of Mich- 

 igan, who has been serving in the Ordnance 

 Department since early in the war, has re- 

 turned to the university to assume his former 

 work. Professor Gombei^, while in the serv- 

 ice, held the rank of major. 



Dr. George H. A. Clowes, formerly of the 

 Gratwick Research Laboratory at Buffalo, 

 N". T., and lately engaged in research at the 

 American University Experiment Station of 

 the Chemical Warfare Service on the physio- 

 logical effects of war gases, left Washington 

 in January to take up biochemical research at 

 the laboratories of Eli Lilly & Company, of 

 Indianapolis, Indiana. 



Dr. Ashbr E. Shupp has resigned his posi- 

 tion as research chemist on dyestuffs for E. I. 

 duPont de !Nemours and Company, and is now 

 working on an industrial fellowship at the 

 Mellon Institute. 



■Mr. Seth S. Walker, formerly associate 

 chemist of the Elorida Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station and more recently chemist to the 

 Elorida Eruit Products Company, has been 

 appointed soil chemist for the Louisiana Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station at Baton Rouge. 



Henry Axlen Gleaso;^, associate professor 

 of botany and director of the botanical gar- 

 dens at the University of Michigan, has ac- 

 cepted a position as first assistant in the New 

 York Botanical Gardens. 



Professor W. W. Rowlee, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has returned to Ithaca after an ab- 

 sence of several months in Central America. 

 There, as a specialist in timber, he was Inves- 

 tigating the growth and availability of certain 



woods of possible use in airplanes and qther 

 implements of war. 



Dr. William H. Nichols, president of the 

 American Chemical Society, has announced 

 the appointment of the committee to estimate 

 the cost and outline policies for the proposed 

 National Institute of Drug Research to which 

 reference has already been made in Science. 

 The committee consists of Dr. John J. Abel, 

 the Johns Hopkins University; Dr. Raymond 

 F. Bacon, director of the Mellon Institute for 

 Industrial Research; Dr. Erank R. Eldred, 

 research chemist; Dr. Charles H. Herty, edi- 

 tor of the Journal of Industrial and Engineer- 

 ing Chemistry, chairman; Dr. Reid Hunt, Har- 

 vard University, Dr. Treat B. Johnson, Tale 

 University; Dr. P. A. Levene, Rockefeller In- 

 .stitute, and F. 0. Taylor, chairman of the 

 Pharmaceutical Division, American Chemical 

 Society. 



Appointment of a committee to study gov- 

 ernment records of the influenza epidemic has 

 been announced by the Bureau of the Census. 

 Dr. William H. Davis is chairman, the mem- 

 bers including C. S. Sloane, representing the 

 Bureau of Census; Dr. Wade H. Frost and 

 Edgar Sydenstricker, of the Public Health 

 Service; Colonel D. C. Howard, Colonel E. F. 

 Russell, and Lieutenant^Colonel A. G. Love, 

 United States Army; Lieutenant-Commander 

 J. R. Phelps and Surgeon Carroll Fox, United 

 States 'Navy. 



There was organized at Washington, D. C, 

 on February 14, an association to be known as 

 the Agricultural History Society. The officers 

 of the society are: Dr. Rodney H. True, Bu- 

 reau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C, 

 president; Professor Wm. J. Trimble, Agri- 

 cultural College, N. Dak., vice-president ; Ly- 

 man Carrier, Bureau of Plant Industry, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, secretary-treasurer; Professor 

 R. W. Kelsey, Haverford, Penna., and O. C. 

 Stine, Office of Farm Management, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, members of the executive commit- 

 tee. The object of the society is " to stimulate 

 interest, promote study and facilitate publica- 

 tion of researches in agricultural history." 

 Any one interested in this subject, who pays 



