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Army, and has accepted the commission of 

 colonel in the Medical Section of the Officers' 

 Reserve Corps. 



Among the members of the University of 

 California faculty who have been on war leave 

 and have now returned to their work at the 

 iiniversity are: W. B. Herms, associate pro- 

 fessor of parasitology ; G. R. Stewart, assistant 

 professor of agricultural chemistry; A. W. 

 Christie, instructor in agricultural chemistry, 

 and W. D. Norton, H. E. Drobish and F. T. 

 Murphy, assistants in agricultural extension. 



The laboratory of forest pathology of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, formerly located at Missoula, 

 Montana, has been permanently established in 

 Spokane, Washington, with Dr. James R. Weir 

 in charge. 



Dr. H. M. Hall, who recently resigned as 

 associate professor of economic botany in the 

 University of California, has accepted a posi- 

 tion witli tlie Carnegie Institution of Wash- 

 ington. The vacancy in tlie department of 

 botany at Berkeley has been filled by the 

 appointment of Dr. F. J. Smiley, who has been 

 associate professor of botany and geology in 

 Occidental College. 



Mr. C. D. Shane has been appointed assist- 

 ant in the Lick Observatory, University of 

 California. 



Dr. Lee R. Dice (California, 1915), form- 

 erly zoologist of the Experiment Station and 

 instructor in zoology at Kansas State Agri- 

 cultural College, and later assistant professor 

 of biology at Montana State University, has 

 accepted the position of curator of mammals in 

 the Museum of Zoology, University of Mich- 

 igan. 



Mr. Charles Howard Richardson, recently 

 a research chemist with the Rohm and Haas 

 Chemical Company, Bristol, Pa., has been ap- 

 pointed specialist in insect physiology. Bureau 

 of Entomology, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Chester N. Myeks, organic chemist of 

 the Hygienic Laboratory, Public Health Serv- 

 ice, has resigned to organize a research labora- 

 tory for H. A. Metz and Company, New 

 York. 



Dr. H. J. Spinden, of the anthropology de- 

 partment of the American Museum, has re- 

 turned from an archeological and ethnological 

 exi>edition to Central America and Columbia. 



A coast and Geodetic Survey party, under 

 the direction of O. W. Swainson, is at work 

 on the triangulation and topographic survey- 

 ing of the Virgin Islands, recently acquired 

 from Denmark. 



Professor L. C. Graton, who has been in 

 New York as secretary of the Copper Pro- 

 ducers' Committee, one of the few war com- 

 mittees for industrial control organized and 

 administered by the concerned industry itself 

 though acting under authority of the War 

 Industries Board, will soon return to Harvard 

 University to take up the work in mining 

 geology and to revive the secondary enrich- 

 ment investigation. Before leaving New York, 

 he will repeat at Columbia the series of 

 lectures he gave there last year on oxidation 

 and secondary enrichment. 



Mr. Gerald H. Thayer gave an illustrated 

 lecture on " Camouflage and Protective Animal 

 Coloration "at the New York State College of 

 Forestry at Syracuse on March 18. 



The seventh Harvey Society lecture of the 

 present series will be by Dr. Stewart Paton, of 

 Princeton University, formerly major, U. S. A., 

 on " Hiunan Behavior in War and Peace " at 

 the New York Academy of Medicine on Satur- 

 day evening, April 12. 



On March 25, an exhibition of motion pic- 

 tures of plant life was held at the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden under tlie joint auspices of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club and the Botanic Garden. 

 Among the subjects illustrated were the pene- 

 tration of the tissue of a potato tuber bs' the 

 hypha of the parasitic fungus that causes the 

 potato leak disease, and bridge grafting to save 

 fruit trees which have been girdled by rodents 

 or otherwise. The films were explained by Dr. 

 R. B. Harvey, of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture. 



Dr. Leonard Hill, F.R.S., delivered a lecture 

 on the atmospheric conditions which affect 

 health, before the Royal Meteorological Society 

 on March 19, in the lecture room of the Geo- 



