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[N. S. Vol. XLIX, No. 1262 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Livingston Fakeand has resigned tlie 

 presidency of the University of Colorado to 

 become the executive head of the American 

 Red Cross. Dr. Farrand was formerly pro- 

 fessor of anthropology at OolTimhia Umversity. 



Professor Albert Sauveur, of the metal- 

 lurgical department of Harvard University, 

 has returned to Camibrddge from France, where 

 he has been engaged in war work during the 

 past year. While stationed in Paris, Professor 

 Sauveur was in cliarge of the section of metal- 

 lurgy in the technical division of the United 

 States Air Service. 



Dr. Thomas MoCutcheon, associate pro- 

 fessor of chemistry, at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, has resumed his work there. Dr. Mc- 

 Cutcheon has been in the service of the War 

 Industries Board and has been in England and 

 France. 



Major George B. "Wallace^ professor of 

 pharmacology, and Captain C. J. Tyson ,in- 

 structor in medicine at the University and 

 Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New 

 Tork University, last week resumed their duties 

 after army service in France. Major Wallace 

 saw long service wi1ii Base Hospital No. 1 at 

 Vichy, near Paris. Captain Tyson, at first 

 connected with Base Hospital Wo. 1, was later 

 made assistant sanitary inspector with the 

 Second U. S. Field Army, with which he saw 

 active service at the front. 



Captain P. L. Thorne, assistant professor 

 in mathematics at ISTew Tork University, re- 

 sumed his duties with the faculty tliis week. 

 After entering the service. Captain Thome 

 served for a time as an artillery instruction 

 officer but later went to the front in France 

 with the .Sixtieth Heavy Artillery regiment. 



Captain I. F. Eldredge has returned from 

 France and will resume his duties as forest 

 supervisor of the Florida National Forest. 

 Captain Eldredge was associated with the 10th 

 Engineers (Forestry). 



Dr. F. L. Wells, having been released from 

 military duty with the Air Service, has re- 

 turned to his former work at McLean Hospital. 



Dr. J. P. EowE, professor of geology at the 

 State University of Montana, who is on leave 

 of absence for war community service, is now 

 in Los Angeles. His stay is indefinite because 

 the work he is doing wdll be continued as long 

 as men are at cantonments and naval training 

 stations. 



Captain W. D. A. Peaslee^ assistant pro- 

 fessor of electrical engineering at the Oregon 

 Agricultural College on leave of absence, has 

 been appointed a member of the consulting 

 staff of the American peace conference. 



Sergeant H. M. Wight, instructor in zool- 

 ogy at the Oregon Agricultural College on 

 leave of absence, has been awarded the French 

 war cross for heroism on the field of battle. 



Sir Richard Threlfall, formerly professor 

 of physics in the University of Sydney, has 

 been elected a member of the Athenasum Club, 

 London, for eminence in science. 



Secretary Lane has appointed a commission 

 of five mining and metallurgical experts from 

 the Bureau of Mines and the Geological Sur- 

 vey to visit Europe to observe and assist re- 

 construction methods in the devastated regions 

 of France and Belgium. The chairman of the 

 commission, Dr. Frederick G. Cottrell, chief 

 metallurgist of the Bureau of Mines, and 

 George S. Rice, chief mining engineer of the 

 bureau, have sailed for France. Frank H. 

 Probert, consulting engineer of the bureau and 

 professor of mining in the University of Cali- 

 fornia, sailed several weeks ago, and R. H. 

 Cameron, consulting chemist of the bureau, 

 and Hoyt S. Gale, of the Geological Survey, 

 are expected to leave early in March. 



C. L. Alsberg, chief of the Bureau of Chem- 

 istry, U. S. Department of Agriculture; John 

 Howland, professor of pediatrics, Johns Hop- 

 kins University Department of Medicine, and 

 Henry Kraemer, professor of pharmacognosy. 

 University of Michigan, college of pharmacy, 

 have been reappointed to serve on the Council 

 on Pharmacy and Chemistry for a further 

 period of five years. W. W. Palmer, associate 

 professor of medicine at the college of physi- 

 cians and surgeons of Columbia University, 

 has been selected to fill the vacancy caused by 



