620  News  Items  and  Personal  Notes.    {  Affl^  fg?™; 
As  a  member  of  the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  of  the 
American  Medical  Association,  from  the  time  this  council  was  or- 
ganized, he  had  made  many  investigations  in  behalf  of  its  work. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Revision  of  the  U.  S.  Phar- 
macopoeia IX.  Likewise,  a  member  of  the  consulting  referee  board 
of  experts  for  the  U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture. 
He  was  the  author  of  many  excellent  papers  and  was  noted  for 
his  research  work,  which  was  in  recent  years  very  largely  associated 
with  problems  of  biologic  chemistry. 
NEWS  ITEMS  AND  PERSONAL  NOTES. 
Vacancies  in  the  Committee  of  Revision  of  the  U.  S. 
Pharmacopoeia  Filled. — While  the  members  of  the  Committee  of 
Revision  were  balloting  by  mail  to  fill  the  eight  vacancies  on  the 
committee,  caused  by  death  since  the  selection  of  the  committee  in 
1910,  a  ninth  vacancy  occurred  by  the  decease  of  Dr.  John  H.  Long. 
The  chairman  has  declared  the  following  nine  of  the  nominees 
elected  to  fill  the  vacancies  in  the  order  of  the  votes  they  received. 
E.  Fullerton  Cook,  William  B.  Day,  Samuel  L.  Hilton,  Henry  P. 
Hynson,  J.  K.  Lilly,  Leonard  G.  Rountree,  Leonard  A.  Seltzer,  W. 
J.  Teeters,  Bernard  Fantus. 
Dean  LaWall  to  Serve  on  Advisory  War  Board. — Dean 
Charles  H.  LaWall  has  accepted  an  invitation  to  serve  as  a  member 
of  the  advisory  board  to  the  Division  of  Medical  Industry  of  the 
WTar  Industries  Board. 
Lieutenant-Colonel  Dr.  F.  F.  Simpson  is  Chief  of  the  Division. 
Stated  meetings  will  probably  be  held  monthly  in  Washington,  D.  C. 
Mr.  H.  K.  Mulford  Honored  by  Lafayette  College. — At  the 
annual  commencement  exercises  of  Lafayette  College,  Easton,  Pa., 
the  honorary  degree  of  Master  of  Science  was  conferred  upon  Mr. 
H.  K.  Mulford,  Vice-President  of  the  H.  K.  Mulford  Co.,  of  Phila- 
delphia. 
Pennsylvania  Board  of  Pharmacy. — The  board  gives  notice 
that  the  next  examination  for  registration  as  Pharmacist  or  As- 
sistant Pharmacist  will  be  conducted  at  the  Williamsport  High 
