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republic. Lieutenant Colonel Glenn S. Smith 

 is organizing a topographical survey. 



0. K. Leith, professor of geology at the 

 University of Wisconsin, has returned from 

 Paris, where he served as mineral adviser in 

 the economic section of the American Peace 

 Commission. Prior to the Paris work, Pro- 

 fessor Leitli took an active part in mineral ad- 

 visory work for the Shipping, War Industries 

 and War Trade Boards, in Washington, par- 

 ticularly in relation to restrictions and regu- 

 lation of international trade. Professor Leith 

 has now left government service to resume his 

 work at Madison. 



Major Wji. Lloyd Evans, C.W.S., who was 

 the head of the laboratory and infection divi- 

 sion, Edgewood Arsenal, has resumed his 

 duties with the department of chemistry of 

 the Ohio State University, having been dis- 

 charged from the U. S. Army. On March 6 

 Major Evans gave a public lecture under the 

 auspices of the Ohio State University Chapter 

 of Sigma Xi on " America's answer to German 

 gas warfare." 



Captain Paul Popenoe, San. C, director of 

 the section on vice and liquor control. Com- 

 mission on Training Camp Activities, was 

 discharged from military service on April 2. 

 Mr. Popenoe, who was formerly editor of the 

 Journal of Heredity, is organizing a depart- 

 ment of law enforcement for the American 

 Social Hygiene Association, New York City. 



Mr. Eobeet L. Moore, of the Bureau of 

 Standards, has been transferred to the rubber 

 laboratory of the bureau at the University of 

 Akron, Akron, Ohio. 



Dr. Albert M. Reese, professor of zoology 

 in West Virginia University, will leave the 

 last of April for British Guiana, where he will 

 spend the summer at the Tropical Research 

 Laboratory of the New York Zoological So- 

 ciety. During his absence the work of the de- 

 partment will be in charge of Dr. Harrison H. 

 Hunt, assistant professor of zoology. 



Mr. W. M. Sjiart, of Trinity College, has 

 been appointed chief assistant at the observa- 

 tory of the University of Cambridge. 



Dr. T. a. Henry, late superintendent of the 

 laboratories at the Imperial Institute, London, 

 has been appointed director of the Wellcome 

 Chemical Research Laboratories, London. Dr. 

 E. L. Pyman, the former director of these lab- 

 oratories, has accepted the professorship of 

 technological chemistry in the Manchester 

 Municipal College of Technology, and in the 

 University of Manchester. 



Dr. Addison, president of the British local 

 government board, has appointed Miss Janet 

 Mary Campbell, M.D., M.S., to be a medical 

 oiEcer of the board in special charge of the 

 work of the board in respect of maternity and 

 child welfare. 



Mr. J. O. Lewis, superintendent of the pe- 

 troleum experiment station at Bartlesville, 

 Oklahoma, has been appointed chief petroleum 

 technologist of the Bureau of Mines, to suc- 

 ceed Mr. Chester Naramore, who has resigned 

 from the bureau to join the Union Petroleum 

 Company, at Philadelphia, Pa. 



The United States Interdepartmental Social 

 Hygiene Board announces the following ap- 

 propriations from the Scientific Research 

 Eund of the board: Leland Stanford Junior 

 University Medical School: (1) Investigation 

 into more effective treatment in acute and 

 chronic gonorrhea, under the direction of Dr. 

 R. L. Rigdon, clinical professor of genito- 

 urinary surgery, and Dr. Alfred B. Spalding, 

 professor of obstetrics and gynecology, San 

 Erancisco, $2,300. (2) The permeability of the 

 meninges to antisyphilitic drugs — an attempt 

 to increase their permeability, under the di- 

 rection of Dr. Henry G. Mehrteus, clinical pro- 

 fessor of neurology, San Erancisco, $2,300. 

 (3) Investigation into more effective methods 

 of treating syphilis, under the direction of Dr. 

 Harry E. Alderson, clinical professor of derma- 

 tology, $2,600; total, $7,200. UniA'ersity of 

 Michigan, College of Medicine and Surgery: 

 (1) A research for an improved method of 

 demonstrating Spirochceta pallida in human 

 tissues, under the direction of Dr. Alfred S. 

 Warthin, professor of pathology, Ann Arbor, 

 $6,000. 



