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will remain at the university for special re- 

 search, work in organic chemistry. Captain 

 Kenshaw is professor of chemistry at Iowa 

 State Agricultural College on leave of absence. 



Dr. J. Edwin Sweet, professor of surgical 

 research in the medical school of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, has been promoted from 

 major to lieutenant' colonel. Colonel Sweet 

 went to France with Base Hospital ITo. 10. 



Lieutenant-Colonel ISTelson Miles Black, 

 M. C, U. S. Army, has been designated as 

 officer in charge of the section of head surgery, 

 Surgeon-General's Office, vice Colonel Walter 

 E. Parker. 



Lieutenant- Colonel E. G. Zabrtskie, of ISTew 

 York City, has been designated senior consul- 

 tant in neuropsychiatry for the American Ex- 

 peditionary Forces, succeeding Colonel Thomas 

 W. Salmon, who has returned to the United 

 States for duty in the Surgeon-General's Office. 

 Lieutenant-Colonel Zabriskie went to France 

 as divisional neuropsychiatrist of the fourth 

 division. Subsequently he was consultant in 

 neuropsychiatry to the third and fifth corps 

 and the first army. After the armistice he 

 served as consulting neuropsychiatrist to the 

 Savenay hospital center. 



Captain S. T. Dana has resigned from the 

 Army and has resumed his duties with the 

 Forest Service as assistant chief of forest in- 

 vestigations. Captain Dana was on the gen- 

 eia.1 staff as secretary of the army commodity 

 committee on lumber, and in charge of deter- 

 mining wood requirements of the army. 



Dr. a. L. "Walters, lately of the Army Med- 

 ical Corps, has resumed his old duties as di- 

 rector of the department of experimental medi- 

 cine, Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis. 



Dr. Hugh S. Taylor has returned to Prince- 

 ton University to take up his duties again 

 after service with the British government in 

 the Munitions Invention Department, where 

 he has been engaged on problems connected 

 with the preparation and purification of hy- 

 drogen. 



Mr. John D. E'orthrop, of the Geological 

 Survey, has accepted a position with an oil 

 company at Cheyenne, Wyoming. 



Mr. E. W. Guernsey, formerly with the 

 Chemical Warfare Service, is now at the re- 

 search laboratories of the Brown Company, at 

 Berlin, K H. 



Assistant Geologist David B. Eeger, of 

 the West Virginia Geological Survey, will 

 spend the next three months in Tucker 

 County, West Virginia, making detailed re- 

 searches for a county geological report. Local 

 headquarters will be at Parsons, West Vir- 

 ginia. 



At an international conference in London, 

 on March 11 to 15, William A. Lippincott, pro- 

 fessor of poultry husbandry in the Kansas 

 State Agricultural College, was elected secre- 

 tary of the International Association of Poul- 

 try Instructors and Investigators. He suc- 

 ceeds Dr. Eayinond Pearl, of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, who recently resigned. 



Professor W. T. Sedgwick, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology and the Har- 

 vard-Techiiology School of Public Health, 

 will leave Boston on May 1 for California, 

 where he is to give instruction in " Sanitary 

 Science and Public Health Problems " dui-ing 

 the summer session of the University at Berke- 

 ley. Professor Sedgwick recently has been 

 elected to membership in the International 

 Health Board of the Eockefeller Foundation 

 and also has been appointed directing sani- 

 tary engineer, with the grade of assistant sur- 

 geon general, in the Eeserve of the United 

 States Public Health Service. 



At the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the 

 Association of American Medical Colleges, 

 held in Chicago, on March 4, the following 

 officers were elected for the ensuing year : pres- 

 ident. Dr. George Blumer, New Haven, Conn. ; 

 vice-president. Dr. A. C. Eycleshymer, Chi- 

 cago; secretary-treasurer, Dr. Fred. C. Zapffe, 

 3431 Lexington Street. Chicago; chairman of 

 executive council. Dr. Irving S. Cutter, 

 Omaha. An entirely new constitution and by- 

 laws were adopted, the principal differences 

 from the old set of rules being in the require- 

 ments, high-school and college premedical, for 

 admission to medical schools. The require- 

 ment in physics was reduced to sis semester 



