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United States Army. Major Squier will give 

 an address on " Some aspects of the Signal 

 Corps in the World War." The address will be 

 illustrated by still and moving pictures show- 

 ing signal corps activities in France, and a 

 limited number of signal corps communica- 

 tion devices will be exhibited. 



Dr. Albert Calmette, former director of 

 the Institut Pasteur at Lille, now subdirector 

 of the Institut Pasteur at Paris, has been 

 elected an active member of the section on 

 public hygiene and legal medicine of the Paris 

 Academy of Medicine. 



Dr. Archibald P. Knight, for twenty-seven 

 years professor of physiology in Queen's Uni- 

 versity, Kingston, Ontario, plans to tender his 

 resignation, but will retain his position until 

 a successor is appointed. 



Professor Dugald 0. Jackson, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, has returned 

 from France and has been discharged from the 

 Army. 



Dr. Tamiji Kawamura, of the Imperial Uni- 

 versity, Kyoto, Japan, author of a work on 

 Japanese fresh-water biology, is spending the 

 spring quarter in the department of zoology of 

 the University of Illinois, studying the meth- 

 ods and equipment of animal ecology in the 

 laJboratory of Professor V. E. Shelford. 



Dr. Joseph E. Pogue, formerly associate 

 professor of geology and mineralogy in North- 

 western University, has terminated his duties 

 as assisting director in technical matters. Bu- 

 reau of Oil Conservation, Oil Division> U. S. 

 Fuel Administration, and accepted the ap- 

 pointment of curator in the Division of Min- 

 eral Technology, U. S. National Museum, 

 where he will carry on educational work and 

 investigations in industrial economies with 

 special reference to the mineral industries. 



Forrest E. Kempton, who took his Ph.D. 

 degree at Illinois last spring and who was em- 

 ployed as plant pathologist in the Porto Pico 

 Agriculture Experiment Station during ' part 

 of the past year, is now employed by the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture Office of Cereal 

 Investigations at the University of Illinois in 

 connection with Barberry eradication. 



J. B. Norton, of the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, who has been appointed agricultural 

 explorer in the Office of Foreign Seed and 

 Plant Introduction, has left Washington on 

 an expedition to China. 



Me. M. B. Long, of the gas laboratory of the 

 Bureau of Standards, has resigned in order to 

 accept a position in the research laboratory of 

 the Western Electric Company, in New York 

 City. 



Wishing to estaJblish a Pasteur Institute, the 

 government of Nicaragua has asked the Mex- 

 ican government to send, at its expense, a per- 

 son to establish one at Managua. In compli- 

 ance vidth this request, the Mexican authorities 

 have intrusted Dr. G. Leal vsdth this duty, and 

 he will depart shortly with the necessary per- 

 sonnel and equipment. As a courtesy to a 

 sister republic, the Mexican government will 

 bear the expenses connected with the trip. 



The board of trustees of the American 

 Medical Association has elected to the edi- 

 torial staff of the Archives of Internal Medi- 

 cine, Dr. George Dock, St. Louis; to the edi- 

 torial staff of the American Journal of Dis- 

 eases of Children, Dr. L. Emmett Holt, New 

 York, and Dr. H. F. Helmholz, vice Dr. Frank 

 Churchill, resigned because of removal from 

 Chicago; on the Council of Pharmacy and 

 Chemistry, Drs. C. L. Alsberg, Washington, 

 D. C, Henry Kraemer, Ann Arbor, Mich., 

 and John Howland, Baltimore, each to serve 

 for five years; and Dr. W. W. Palmer, New 

 York, to fill the vacancy caused by the death 

 of Dr. J. W. Long, for a term extending to 

 1922. 



At the recent meeting of the American As- 

 sociation of Anatomists, held in Pittsburgh, 

 the foUovsdng resolution was introduced and 

 unanimously adopted : " The American Asso- 

 ciation of Anatomists expresses to Professor 

 J. McKeen Cattell its grateful appreciation of 

 the ability and unfailing devotion to scientific 

 progress shown in his editorship of Science 

 and other scientific journals, which, while 

 serving other broader purjKJses, have been so 

 often of direct benefit to anatomists." 



