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in  191 5  he  was  elected  a  director  and  in  191 8  was  made  assistant  to 
the  president,  and  now  has  the  further  honor  of  being  made  vice- 
president. 
Mr.  R.  L.  Derr,  who  for  some  years  past  has  been  the  manager 
of  the  Chicago  branch  of  the  H.  K.  Mulford  Co.,  has  been  promoted 
to  the  position  of  supervisor  of  the  various  branches  of  the  company 
and  has  removed  to  the  home  office  in  Philadelphia  to  assume  charge 
of  his  new  duties. 
Dr.  A.  Parker  Hitchens  with  Eli  Lilly  and  Company. — 
Dr.  A.  Parker  Hitchens,  who  has  a  national  reputation  as  one  of 
America's  leading  bacteriologists,  has  accepted  an  appointment  in 
the  management  of  the  Biological  Laboratories  of  the  Eli  Lilly 
Company  of  Indianapolis. 
Dr.  Hitchens  is  the  secretary  of  the  American  Society  of  Bac- 
teriologists and  is  the  editor  of  the  publication  of  that  organization 
Abstract  of  Bacteriology.  During  the  war  he  entered  the  Army 
Medical  Service  and  was  commissioned  as  a  major  and  assigned  to 
duty  in  the  Army  Medical  School  in  Washington  and  devoted  most 
of  his  time  to  the  study  of  the  bacteriologic  problems  associated  with 
influenza.  Upon  discharge  from  the  active  service,  he  was  com- 
missioned a  lieutenant-colonel  in  the  Medical  Reserve  Corps. 
Changes  in  the  Scientific  Staff  of  Burroughs  Wellcome 
Research  Laboratories. — Dr.  T.  A.  Henry,  late  superintendent  of  * 
the  laboratories  at  the  Imperial  Institute,  London,  has  been  ap- 
pointed director  of  the  Wellcome  Chemical  Research  Laboratories, 
London. 
Dr.  F.  L.  Pyman,  the  former  director  of  these  laboratories,  has 
( accepted  the  professorship  of  technological  chemistry  in  the  Man- 
chester Municipal  College  of  Technology,  and  in  the  University  of 
Manchester. 
The  Remington  Memorial  Honor  Medal  in  Pharmacy 
Awarded. — The  first  award  of  the  Remington  Honor  Medal,  pro- 
vided by  the  New  York  Branch  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  is  to  be  made  this  year.  The  Committee  on  the  Award 
have  selected  Dr.  James  H.  Beal,  former  president  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  as  the  first  recipient  of  this  distinguished 
honor. 
