MiT 14, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



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ing of ether vaccine. Various ambulances re- 

 ceive $12,000, and the remainder is placed in 

 reserve. 



The Paris Geographical Society has awarded 

 a gold medal to Dr. J. Scott Keltie for his 

 services to geographical science. 



Mr. Edward W. Parker, of the United 

 States Geological Survey, for many years the 

 government coal statistician of the division of 

 mineral resources, leaves the government serv- 

 ice to accept a responsible position with the 

 anthracite mining companies. Mr. H. D. 

 McCaskey has been appointed chief of the di- 

 vision of mineral resources of the survey to 

 succeed Mr. Parker. Mr. McCaskey brings to 

 this position experience, not only as a geolo- 

 gist of the survey since 1907 and section chief 

 since 1912, but also as a mining engineer in 

 the Philippine Mining Bureau from 1900 to 

 1903, and as chief of that bureau from 1903 

 to 1906. 



Dr. John G. Bowman has been appointed 

 director of the American College of Surgeons, 

 founded in 1913, an organization of the 

 surgeons of the United States and Canada. 

 Its purpose is the advancement of the art and 

 science of surgery. The executive offices are 

 at 30 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. 



Dr. H. T. Summersgill, superintendent of 

 the University of California Hospital, has 

 succeeded the late Dr. W. O. Mann, of Boston, 

 as president of the American Hospital Asso- 

 ciation. 



Secretary of Agriculture Houston has be- 

 gun an extensive tour of the national forests 

 to find out for himself to what extent their 

 timber, forage, water power, recreational and 

 agricultural resources are being developeid 

 for the public under present methods and to 

 make a study of the administrative problems 

 of the forest service. During May he is visit- 

 ing the forests in several of the western states. 



Professor Koeplin Eavn, an authority on 

 the composition of soils, has arrived here 

 from Copenhagen. He comes at the invita- 

 tion of the department of agriculture and will 

 lecture in a number of American universities 

 on Danish farming methods. 



Dr. J. 'N. Eose, research associate of the 

 Carnegie Institution, accompanied by Mr. Paul 

 G. KusseU, of the United States National Mu- 

 seum, left on May 8 on the steamship Tenny- 

 son, of the Lamport and Holt Line, for South 

 America. They expect to spend the season in 

 Brazil and Argentina, going under the aus- 

 pices of the Carnegie Institution of Washing- 

 ton and the New York Botanical Garden for 

 the purpose of studying the cactus deserts of 

 those countries. They plan to send large col- 

 lections of living cacti to the New Tork Bo- 

 tanical Garden. 



Three Philadelphia surgeons are soon to 

 leave that city for service in military hos- 

 pitals of France and England. They axe Dr. 

 J. William White, surgeon and trustee of the 

 University of Pennsylvania; Dr. E. Tait Mc- 

 Kenzie, head of the university department of 

 physical education, and Dr. James P. Hutch- 

 inson, surgeon at the Pennsylvania and Bryn 

 Mawr hospitals. Under Dr. White's charge a 

 corps of physicians and nurses will sail next 

 month for France, where they are to form a 

 unit in the American ambulance hospital at 

 Paris. The operating head of the surgical de- 

 partment of the university corps is to be Dr. 

 Hutchinson. 



The University of Pennsylvania Museum 

 has received a report from Dr. Clarence 

 Fisher, leader of the Eckley B. Ooxe, Jr., ex- 

 pedition to Egypt under the auspices of the 

 museum, giving an account of the work ac- 

 complished up to the early days of March. 

 Pending the arrangements for a large site for 

 operations. Dr. Fisher was permitted to do 

 excavating at the base of the Second Pyra- 

 mid of Giza (Gizeh), and has had some excel- 

 lent results. 



The following men have accepted invita- 

 tions to carry out investigations in Nela Ee- 

 search Laboratory, National Lamp Works of 

 the General Electric Company, during the 

 coming summer: Dr. W. E. Burge, acting 

 head of the department of physiology, Univer- 

 sity of Illinois; Dr. A. H. Pfund, associate 

 professor of physics, Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity and Dr. S. O. Mast, associate professor of 



