May 16, 1919] 



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Beginning' with the summer of 1919 the work 

 of the laboratory will be organized on a re- 

 search basis, and only those prepared for in- 

 dependent work will be admitted. The lab- 

 oratory will open June 23, continuing in 

 session ten weeks and closing August 30. Any 

 one interested in the work for the coming 

 summer should address the director, Robert B. 

 Wylie, of the University of Iowa, Iowa City, 

 Iowa. 



DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDALS 



General Pershing has awarded the Dis- 

 tinguished Service Medal to a number of 

 medical officers including the following: 



Fraxcis a. Winter, Brigadier-General. As 

 chief surgeon of the lines of communication, Amer- 

 ican Expeditionary Forces, from June to Decem- 

 ber, 1917, he organized medical units at the base 

 ports and in camps in. France. He established 

 large supply depots from which medical supplies 

 were distributed to the American Expeditionary 

 Forces, and by keen foresight and administrative 

 ability, made these supplies at all times available 

 for eur armies. 



Joseph A. Blake, Colonel. As chief consultant 

 for the district of Paris, and commanding ofiScer 

 of Red Cross Hospital, No. 2, he efficiently stand- 

 ardized surgical procedures especially in the re- 

 cent methods of treating fractures. His remark- 

 able talent has materially reduced the suffering 

 and loss of life among our wounded. 



George W. Crile, Colonel. By his skill, re- 

 searches and discoveries, he saved the lives of many 

 of our wounded soldiers. His tireless efforts to 

 devise new methods of treatment to prevent infec- 

 tion and surgical shock revolutionized Army sur- 

 gery and met with the greatest success. 



William H. Wilmer, Colonel. As surgeon in 

 charge of medical research laboratories, air serv- 

 ice, American Expeditionary Forces, since Sep- 

 tember, 1918, he has rendered most distinguished 

 service. His thorough knowledge of the psychol- 

 ogy of flying officers and the expert tests applied 

 efficiently and intelligently under his direction 

 have done much to decrease the number of acci- 

 dents at the flying schools in France and have es- 

 tablished standards and furnished indications 

 which will be of inestimable value in all future 

 work to determine the qualifications of pilots and 

 observers. The data collected by him is an evi- 

 dence of his ability, hia painstaking care and of 



his thorough qualifications for the important work 

 intrusted to him. The new methods, instruments 

 and appliances devised under his direction for 

 testing candidates for pilots and observers have 

 attracted the attention and been the subject of 

 enthusiastic comment by officers of the allied serv- 

 ices, and will be one of great importance in pro- 

 moting the safety and more rapid development o' 

 aerial navigation. 



Joel E. Goldthwait, Colonel. As a member of 

 the medical corps he has, by his unusual foresight 

 and organizing ability, made it possible to reclaim 

 for duty thousands of men suffering from physical 

 defects. He has thereby materially conserved for 

 combat service a great number of men who would 

 have been lost to the service. 



Thomas W. Salmon, Colonel. He has, by his 

 constant tireless and conscientious work, as well as 

 by his unusual judgment, done much to conserve 

 manpower for active front line work. He was the 

 first to demonstrate that war neurosis could be 

 treated in advanced sanitary units with greater 

 success than ia base hospitals. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Joseph Barrell, professor of structural 

 geology at Yale University, died on May 4 

 from pneumonia and spinal meningitis, aged 

 forty-nine years. 



The N'ational Research Council announces 

 the appointment of James Rowland Angell, 

 dean of the faculties, and professor of psychol- 

 ogy in the University of Chicago, as chairman 

 of the council for the year commencing July 

 1, 1919. Dr. Angell succeeds Dr. George E. 

 Hale, director of the Mount Wilson Solar Ob- 

 servatory of the Carn^ie Institution of Wash- 

 ington, who has directed the affairs of the coun- 

 cil during the war, and who resigned as chair- 

 man on April 30, to return to California. Dr. 

 John C. Merriam, professor of paleontology 

 in the University of California, who has been 

 acting chairman of the council at various 

 times, will direct its affairs until Dr. Angell 

 assumes office in July. 



At a meeting of the Franklin Institute at 

 Philadelphia on May 21, the presentation of 

 the Franklin Medals will be made to Sir James 

 Dewar, the distinguished English chemist, and 

 to Major-General George Owen Squier, of the 



