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Majors — Eobert XJ. Patterson, Medical Corps, 

 TJ. S. Army, commanding officer; Harvey Gushing, 

 director; Richard P. Strong (absent in Europe), 

 chief laboratory section; Roger I. Lee, chief med- 

 ical section; Eobert B. Osgood, chief surgical sec- 

 tion. 



Captains — Daniel F. Harmon, Medical Corps, U. 

 S. A., Adjutant; Walter B. Cannon; Reginald Pitz; 

 George S. Derby; Walter A. Boothby; Edward B. 

 Towne; Charles Rund, Jr., quartermaster, O. R. C, 

 IT. S. Army; Percy Browne, Horace Binney, Elliot 

 Cutler, Henry Lyman. 



Lieutenants — George P. Denny, Gilbert Horrax, 

 Prank R. Ober, John J. Morton, Oswald H. Rob- 

 ertson, Thomas E. Goethals, Samuel C. Harvey, 

 James L. Stoddard, Henry Forbes, A. V. Bock. 



Dental Surgeons {Lieutenants) — William Potter, 

 Harrison L. Parker. 



Those witli the Presbyterian Hospital and 

 Columbia University nxiit include : Drs. George 

 Emerson Brewer, Homer Swift, William Dar- 

 rach, Sidney R. Bumap, Fordyce B. St. John, 

 Alex McCreery, John A. Peters, Benjamin R. 

 Allison, William P. Cunningham, William 

 Barclay Parsons, Robert Kennedy, William C. 

 Woolsey, Gerhard Cocks, Armitage Whitman, 

 Willard B. Soper, Louis Casamajor, Alvsdn M. 

 Pappenheim, A. R. Stevens, Roderick Grace, 

 Austin Hobbs, Malcolm McBumey, Henry S. 

 Dunning and E. H. Raymond. 



The Mayo Foundation of the University of 

 Minnesota has offered the government for for- 

 eign service a fully equipped field hospital 

 unit, headed probably by Dr. William J. Mayo. 

 The organization is known as the University 

 of Minnesota Field Hospital Unit and has 500 

 tented beds of the latest model, full surgical 

 apparatus and a portable shelter for an opera- 

 ting room. Dr. E. H. Plummer, Dr. Charles 

 Judd, Dr. Frank C. Todd, Dr. H. Robertson 

 and Dr. S. Marx White are among the med- 

 ical men who have enrolled. 



After the conference of the medical board of 

 the Council of National Defense with Colonel 

 T. H. Goodwin, of the Royal Army Medical 

 Corps, in Washington, D. C, on April 29, it 

 was announced that plans had been made to 

 send one thousand American surgeons to Eu- 

 rope for service with the allied armies. This 

 offer came from the American College of Sur- 

 geons. The deans of forty-six medical schools 



met in conference with the general medical 

 board and agreed to continue instruction with- 

 out shortening the courses so as to furnish new 

 graduates. Both the schools and the hospitals, 

 however, will cut down in the number of men 

 on the staff as much as possible so as to set 

 them free for service in the army. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the recent meeting of the !N"ational Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, Dr. Charles D. Walcott, sec- 

 retary of the Smithsonian Institution, was 

 elected president, in succession to Professor 

 William H. Welch, of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity. To fill the vacancy in the secretary- 

 ship, caused by Dr. Walcott's election to the 

 presidency. Dr. A. A. Michelson, of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, was elected. 



The Franklin Medal awarded by the Frank- 

 lin Institute to Dr. M. A. Lorentz, professor of 

 mathematical physics at Leiden, will be re- 

 ceived by the minister from Holland at a meet- 

 ing on May 16. A Franklin medal will also 

 at the time be presented to Admiral D. W. 

 Taylor, chief constructor of the United States 

 ISTavy, who will make an address on " The 

 Science of ISTaval Architecture." 



On May 3 of each year the Howard Taylor 

 Ricketts prize for research by students in the 

 departments of pathology and bacteriology and 

 hygiene, in the University of Chicago, is 

 awarded by the university, this being the anni- 

 versary of the death of Dr. Ricketts from 

 typhus fever acquired by him while investiga- 

 ting that disease in Mexico City. The prize 

 this year is awarded to Mr. Enrique E. Ecker, 

 for his work entitled, " The Pathogenic Ef- 

 fect and the Nature of a Toxin produced by 

 Bacillus Paratyphosus B." 



The seventh Edison medal, which was 

 awarded to Nikola Tesla " for meritorious 

 achievements in his early original work in 

 polyphase and high-frequency electric cur- 

 rents," will be presented to him at the annual 

 meeting of the American Institute of Electrical 

 Engineers in the auditorium of the Engineer- 

 ing Societies Building, New York, on the even- 

 ing of May 18. President H. W. Buck will 

 preside, and addi'esses will be made by Dr. A. 



