Makch 21, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



281 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The annual meeting of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences will be held at the Smith- 

 sonian Institution in Washington on April 28, 

 29, and 30. The William Ellery Hale Lecture 

 will be given by James Henry Breasted, pro- 

 fessor of Egyptology and oriental history, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, on " The Origin of Civiliza- 

 tion." 



Colonel Hakvey Gushing, of the Harvard 

 Medical School, has returned to the United 

 States. 



LlEUTE\.\XT-C0L0NEL J. H. HiLDEBRAND, who 



has recentlj' been Commandant of Haulon 

 Field, near Chaumont, France, which included 

 the Experimental Field and the A. E. F. Gas 

 Defense School of the Chemical Warfare Serv- 

 ice, has returned after an absence of a year in 

 France to his iwsition of professor of chem- 

 istry in the University of California. 



Major C. B. Stantox, formerly professor of 

 civil engineering at the Carnegie Institute of 

 Technology, who has been with the 15th Engi- 

 neers in France for nearly two years, has noti- 

 fied the dean of the Science School tliat he has 

 been appointed a professor in the American 

 University for American soldiers at Beaune, 

 France. Major Stanton was with his regiment 

 at Bordeaux awaiting orders to board a trans- 

 port and come home when he received the un- 

 expected order of reporting to this " soldier 

 university " as professor of civil engineering. 



Major Willum B. Herms, associate pro- 

 fessor of parasitology in the University of 

 California, has resumed his university duties. 

 Major Herms has been serving with the Sani- 

 tary Corps of the U. S. Army for a little over 

 a year, stationed since April, 1918, at the port 

 of embarkation, Newport News, Va., where he 

 was in cliarge of malarial drainage operations, 

 delousing stations and assisting in general 

 sanitary inspection. 



Professor Frank E. Morris has returned to 

 the Connecticut Collie for Women as pro- 

 fessor of psychology and ethics, which position 

 he left last year when he enlisted in the psy- 

 chological department of the Sanitation Corps 

 of the Army. 



Lieutenant A. C. Chandler, assistant pro- 

 fessor of zoology at the Oregon Agricultural 

 College on leave of absence, has been ordered 

 to the front with the American soldiers to 

 make a study of rat parasites in France. 



Dr. Livingston Farrand, chairman of the 

 central committee of the American Red Cross, 

 sailed for France on ilarch 9, to be gone until 

 the latter part of April. Having set in motion 

 at headquarters the plans for the future of 

 the Red Cross, Dr. Farrand goes abroad to 

 study the organization's problems in Europe, 

 and to confer with Henry P. Davison, for- 

 merly chairman of the war council, who is 

 now at Cannes arranging for the international 

 conference of Red Cross societies called to 

 meet at Geneva 30 days after the declaration 

 of peace. Dr. Farrand has arranged to have 

 a number of American health experts join 

 him at Cannes for the purpose of conferring 

 with similar experts from the allied countries 

 relative to matters that are to be taken up 

 at Geneva. 



Dr. T. a. Henry, superintendent of the 

 laboratories at the Imiaerial Institute, London, 

 lias been appointed director of the Wellcome 

 Chemical Research Laboratories, London. 

 Dr. F. L. Pyman, the former director of these 

 laboratories, has accepted the professorship of 

 technological chemistry in the College of 

 Technology, University of Manchester. 



Dr. H. C. Taylor, of the University of 

 Wisconsin, has been appointed to be chief of 

 the office of farm management of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



Professor Willum D. Hurd, director of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College, has 

 resigned and will enter the service of the 

 National Fertilizer Association. He is to 

 have charge of educational projects in the 

 middle west. Professor Hurd undertook the 

 organization of the state system of extension 

 work in 1909. There are now twenty full- 

 time workers at the college engaged in projects 

 of food production, distribution and conser- 

 vation. 



Dr. Arthur Lachman, formerly professor 

 of chemistry in the University of Oregon, is 



