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[N. S. Vol. XLIX No. 1265 



Lieutenant Colonel William McPheeson, 

 ■who entered the services of the War Depart- 

 ment shortly after the declaration of war by 

 the United States, has secured his discharge 

 and has returned to his former position as 

 head of the department of chemistry at the 

 Ohio State University. 



Professor Olough T. Burnett, professor of 

 bacteriology in the University of Colorado, has 

 returned from France, where he was the head 

 of the commission for the prevention of tuber- 

 culosis. 



Dr. H. C. Taylor, head of the department 

 of agricultural economics in the collie of 

 agriculture. University of Wisconsin, has been 

 appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture as 

 chief of the Office of Farm Management. 

 Francis W. Peck, of the University of Minne- 

 sota, has been appointed to the position of 

 farm economist in the office. 



The Proceedings of the Washington Acad- 

 emy of Sciences state that the following mem- 

 bers of the Chemical Warfare Service have 

 joined the staff of the Bureau of Standards 

 since January: Captain J. M. Braham, in the 

 electrochemical laboratory; Lieutenant C. W. 

 Clifford, sugar laboratory; S. C. Langdon, 

 electrochemical laboratory; F. W. Eeynolds 

 (formerly at Edgewood Arsenal), laboratory 

 of metallurgical chemistry; P. Wrightsman, 

 gas laboratory. Mr. J. E. Eckman, formerly 

 of the Ordnance Department, has joined the 

 staff of the bureau as chemist in the analytical 

 laboratory; Mr. W. B. Newkirk, formerly with 

 the Oxnard Sugar Company, as sugar tech- 

 nologist, and Mr. A. A. Benedict, formerly of 

 of the University of Pittsburgh, as physicist 

 in the sugar laboratory. 



Professor W. B. Meldrum, formerly head 

 of the department of chemistry at Haverford 

 College and later in the Chemical Warfare 

 Service on duty at the American University 

 Experiment Station, has accepted a temxwrary 

 position as chemical expert with the Price Sec- 

 tion of the War Industries Board. 



Dr. Willum T. Brigham, Sc.D., in charge 

 of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Hono- 



lulu, since its foundation, has resigned the di- 

 rectorship and the trustees have conferred 

 upon him the title of director emeritus. Dr. 

 Brigham continues his connection with the 

 museum as curator of anthropology. 



The Adams prize, value £250, has been 

 awarded by the University of Cambridge, to 

 Professor J. W. Nicholson, professor of mathe- 

 matics at King's College, University of Lon- 

 don. 



A MEETING of Unionists has been held at Ox- 

 ford to consider the selection of a candidate to 

 fill the vacancy in the representation in Par- 

 liament of the university caused by the eleva- 

 tion of Mr. R. E. Prothero to the peerage. It 

 was decided to invite Mr. David G. Hogarth, 

 fellow of Magdalen College, archeological ex- 

 plorer, geographer and author, to become the 

 candidate. Mr. Hogarth is at present in 

 Egypt. 



Professor Alan M. Bateman, of the depart- 

 ment of economic geology, Yale University, 

 has been elected editor of the Journal of Eco- 

 nomic Geology. 



Dr. Graham Edgar, formerly secretary of 

 the Washington office of the Research Infor- 

 mation Service, National Research Council, 

 has resigned and is now with the Nitrate Di- 

 vision of the Ordnance Department of the 

 Army. Mr. Gordon S. Fulcher is his successor 

 as secretary of the Information Service. 

 - Dr. Walter M. Mitchell, recently manager 

 of inspection for the Bureau of Aircraft Pro- 

 duction, U. S. War Department, in Rochester, 

 N. Y., has been api>ointed director of the metal- 

 lurgical and testing laboratory, Standard 

 Roller Bearing Co., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Dr. C. S. Hudson, chief of the carbohydrate 

 laboratory of the Bureau of Chemistry, has re- 

 signed to accept a position with the Samuel 

 Heath Company, of Trenton, N. J. 



At a joint meeting of the Washington Acad- 

 emy of Sciences and the Philosophical Society 

 of Washington on March 15, Dr. H. D. Curtis, 

 of the Lick Observatory, delivered an address 

 on " Modern theories of spiral nebulse." 



Lieutenant Colonel John R. Murlin, U. S. 

 A., of the Surgeon General's Office, gave an 



