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He was largely instrumental in securing from 

 the telephone and telegraph companies of the 

 United States the best talent available to meet 

 the urgent requirements of the Signal Corps 

 at the outbreak of the war. He has served 

 with marked distinction as a member of the 

 American Expeditionary Forces and his bril- 

 liant professional attainments and sound 

 judgment have rendered his services of excep- 

 tional value to the government." 



Major General Sir Egbert Joxes, lecturer 

 in orthopaedic surgery, Liverpool University, 

 wiU act as honorary consultant to the British 

 Ministry of Pensions for orthopffidic cases. 

 Sir Robert Jones is inspector of military 

 orthopaedics and has been very largely respon- 

 sible for the surgical and training arrange- 

 ments carried out in the special military 

 surgical centers. 



Miss Lucy Miknegero, of Fairfax, Va., chief 

 nurse of the American Ked Cross Unit, which 

 was sent to Kief, Russia, in 1915, and later 

 sui>erintendent of nurses at Columbia Hos- 

 pital, Washington, D. C, and who since 1917, 

 has been in charge of the preparation of the 

 Red Cross nurses for assignment overseas, has 

 been appointed superintendent of the U. S. 

 Public Health Service Nurse Corps. 



Professor C. M. Child, president of the 

 American Society of Zoologists, has nominated 

 and the executive committee has unanimously 

 elected the following members of the society 

 as its representatives in the reorganized Di- 

 vision of Biology and Agriculture of the Na- 

 tional Research Council: F. R. Lillie, G. H. 

 Parker and M. F. Guyer. 



Dr. C. Lovatt Evaxs, professor of physiol- 

 ogy and pharmacology at Leeds, has resigned 

 to undertake research work in the department 

 of pharmacology and biochemistry of the med- 

 ical research committee. 



Dr. Solon Siiedd, head of the department of 

 geology, State College of Washington, has been 

 granted leave of absence for a year to engage 

 in the production of casing head gasoline in 

 the Oklahoma oil fields. 



Major General Willum C. Gorgas, former 

 Surgeon-General of the Army, and a party of 



sanitary experts arrived in Panama, on April 

 3, and left April 7, for Guayaquil, Ecuador, to 

 investigate sanitary conditions. 



Professor Herbert E. Gregory, of Yale 

 University, leaves on May 8 for Honolulu to 

 assist the trustees of the Bernice Pauahi 

 Bishop Museum in developing plans for scien- 

 tific work in Hawaii. By arrangement between 

 the museum and Yale University, Professor 

 Gregory is to be absent from New Haven for 

 the remainder of the present academic year 

 and also during the second half of the year 

 1919-20. 



Dr. a. Hamilton Rice, of Boston, will start 

 early in June on his sixth journey of explora- 

 tion in South America. The United States 

 government will receive from Dr. Rice the re- 

 sults of his geological discoveries uxwn his re- 

 turn, as has been the case following each of 

 his previous voyages. His biological and eth- 

 nological collections have been presented to 

 the Peabody Museum, Harvard University. 

 To navigate the shallow waters of the Upper 

 Amazon, Dr. Rice has had built a 45-foot 

 launch, which is of 14-foot beam and only 20 

 inches draught. It will be shipped by freight 

 to one of the South American ports and there 

 assembled. The boat contains living quarters 

 and a laboratory. 



At a meeting of the luternational Associa- 

 tion of Poultry Instructors and Investigators 

 held in London, England, March 11-15, 1919, 

 Edward Brown, Fellow of the London Society, 

 was reelected president, and William A. Lip- 

 pincott, professor of poultry husbandry, Kan- 

 sas State Agricultural College, as has been 

 noted in Science, was elected secretary to suc- 

 ceed Dr. Raymond Pearl. Dr. Pearl recently 

 resigned, since, in becoming head of the de- 

 partment of biometry and vital statistics in 

 the school of hygiene and public health, Johns 

 Hopkins University, he is no longer carrying 

 on investigations with poultry. Dr, Pearl was 

 made first fellow of the association in recog- 

 nition of his untiring service as secretary since 

 the organization of the association in 1912. By 

 invitation of the Netherlands government, a 

 World's Poultry Congress will be held at the 



