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sities with their highest degrees; author of 

 meritorious historical documents; active par- 

 ticipant in all social movements of an uplifting 

 nature, sturdy patriot; only commissioned offi- 

 cer in the present war who was a commissioned 

 officer during the Civil War; beloved teacher, 

 honored citizen. 



The same degree was conferred on Dr. Fred- 

 erick, Petersen, of whom Provost Smith said: 

 Eminent psychiatrist, and author of profound 

 works upon the most mysterious mental dis- 

 eases; learned in medical jurisprudence and 

 in toxicology ; poet of distinction, to whom the 

 literary world is also indebted for hidden gems 

 from the Swedish and Chinese literature. 



Majoe-General William C. Gorgas, for- 

 merly surgeon-general of the United States 

 Army, has been named a commander of the 

 French Legion of Honor. 



Dr. Stephen Smith celebrated his ninety- 

 sixth birthday on February 19. He is in good 

 health and only resigned from his position on 

 tlie New Tork State Board of Charities in 

 February, 1918, after having served on the 

 board for thirty-four years. 



Colonel Sir Ronald Ross has been ap- 

 pointed consultant in malaria cases to the 

 British Minister of Pensions. He will advise 

 on these cases in addition to his duties as con- 

 sultant in malaria to the War Office. 



The Belgian Surgical Society, at its first 

 meeting since July, 1914, elected Professor 

 Depage as president. 



Professor Julius Stieglitz, chairman of 

 the department of chemistry at the university 

 of Chicago, has been appointed chairman of 

 the committee on publication of compendia of 

 chemical literature for the American Chemical 

 Society. 



William Bowie, major of engineers, U. S. 

 Army, was honorably discharged on February 

 28. He has resumed his duties at Washington, 

 D. C, as Chief of the Division of Geodesy, 

 U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 



H. F. Staley, formerly professor of ceramic 

 engineering at Iowa State College, who had 

 been engaged in war research at the Bureau of 



Standards since June, 1918, has joined the staff 

 of the Bureau as metallurgical ceramist. 



Colonel G. A. Burrell, of the Chemical 

 Warfare Service, has returned to private chem- 

 ical engineering work at Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Mr. George W. Morey, of the geophysical 

 laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington, has been granted leave of absence 

 for one year to take charge of the optical glass 

 plant of the Spencer Lens Co., Hamburg, N. Y. 



The Utah Agricultural Experiment Station 

 has recently established a department of range 

 management under the direction of Professor 

 Raymond J. Becraft, formerly of the U. S. 

 Forest Service. One of the first problems to be 

 undertaken by the department will be to in- 

 crease the carrying capacity of Utah ranges 

 by scientific management. 



Ed. L. Ayers, formerly chief nursery in- 

 spector in the Texas Department of Agricul- 

 ture will become plant pathologist in the Ex- 

 tension Service to succeed Frederick A. Blod- 

 gett. 



Professor John ]Sr. Van der Vries has re- 

 signed his position as professor of iuathematics 

 at the University of Kansas to continue work 

 as secretary of the Central District of the 

 Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 

 801 Otis Building, Chicago. 



Mr. Frank A. Dickey, registrar of Columbia 

 College, has resigned to become the business 

 manager of the Rockefeller Institute of Med- 

 ical Research. 



Dr. William I. Dublin, statistician of the 



Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, has 



returned to the United States, from war serv- 



, ice under the American Red Cross, in Italy, 



Greece and Serbia. 



Dr. H. Gideon Wells, of the department of 

 pathology at the University of Chicago, who 

 is also director of the Atho S. A. Sprague 

 Memorial Institute, recently left Constanti- 

 nople as head of the American Red Cross 

 Mission to Roumania with relief supplies for 

 that country. Dr. Wells has already spent 

 several months in Serbia and Roumania in 

 connection with Red Cross medical work. 



