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The results of her experiments also will be published as a bulletin.

Mr. Rankin has written to all the canneries along the California coast to find out whether they are willing to commence canning mussels. A number of replies have been received, and in every case the answer has been that if the canneries could be assured a market for the product they would be very glad to can them.

Further investigations of the cause of mussel poisoning have been conducted. While it is believed, with Professor Kofoid, that mussel poisoning is not a serious danger provided the necessary precautions are taken in collecting, yet it seemed best to have more positive evidence to present to the public as to the causes. With this in mind, arrangements were made with the State Board of Health to continue the experiments on guinea pigs. It is proposed to subject the live mussels to different degrees of heat for different lengths of time, after they have been taken out of the water, in order to ascertain whether or not the poisoning is really due to heat and exposure. Dr. T. B. Robertson, former Professor of Biochemistry of the University, has written a statement as to the possible character of the poisoning. A circular letter has been sent to all the physicians connected with the State Board of Health, asking for information concerning mussel poisoning.

CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

The College of Pharmacy has responded promptly to every government call for pharmacists, with the result that ninety-one graduates and students are in the military service of the country. A gold star, representing J. M. Simmons, class of '14, marks the service flag. A course in Military Hygiene and First Aid has been of material assistance to the military authorities about the bay counties.

Dr. H. M. Simmons, Associate Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy, and Lecturer on Toxicology, and Dr. H. B. Carey, Professor of Botany, Materia Medica and Physiology, and Instructor in Anatomy, Histology, Materia Medica and Therapeutics, are serving the exemption boards in their districts.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

The shop of the Department of Physics has been used for the construction of special apparatus and for repair work for the School of Military Aeronautics, for the Signal Corps under the direction of Captain G. M. Stratton, Professor of Psychology, and for the Shipping Board under the direction of E. E. Hall, Associate Professor of Physics.

L. T. Jones, Instructor in Physics, is First Lieutenant in the Aviation Corps; W. P. Roop, Instructor in Physics, is Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve; Grandison Garner, Assistant in Physics, is Second Lieutenant in the Army; C. E. Pierce, Assistant in Physics, is in Company B, California Engineers; H. O. Russell, Assistant in Physics, is in the Aviation Corps ; L. A. Welo, Assistant in Physics, has been detailed to the Forest Testing Laboratory, C. H. Kunsman, Whitney Fellow in Physics, is civilian instructor in the School of Military Aeronautics; H. H. Anderson, Whiting Fellow in Physics, is enlisted in the Signal Corps; Paul Taylor, Assistant in Physics, is civilian instructor in the School of Military Aeronautics.

E. P. Lewis, Professor of Physics, has served in a confidential capacity for the National Research Council. He is chairman of the Physics Committee and a member of the Committee on Engineering and Invention of the Conference Committee of the State Council of Defense.

Professor Hall has carried out certain tests in connection with the research work of the United States Shipping Board.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Under normal conditions the activities of the Department of Physical Education for Men are largely of such a nature that they may be classed legitimately as military training. It is the aim of the department to maintain and improve the health of all male students, and to develop in them those mental, moral and physical traits imperative to success in military life. The method of procedure followed by the department during the past three years is cited by the office of the United States Commissioner of Education in his recommendations to the National Council of Defense as typical of the method of physical education to be followed throughout the colleges of the country as an aid in military training.

The chief war work of a specific nature in which the department has been engaged is that of organizing and conducting the athletics of the School of Military Aeronautics.

This department has also given special instruction to the University of California cadet officers for the purpose of fitting them to drill men in the official army calisthenics as set forth by Major Koehler of West Point; it has likewise trained the prospective naval officers enrolled in the naval preparation course at the University in the official Navy calisthenics. These differ decidedly from those of the Army.

In the organization of teachers' training courses for both the fall and summer session, this department has been making special efforts to meet the overwhelming demand for competent teachers in this field. It is also expecting to lend assistance to the Medical School in the development of its prospective plan for the training of reconstruction aides.

Classes have been organized to accommodate faculty men, several of whom have undertaken the work to fit themselves for military service.

Special corrective gymnastics have been conducted for the correction of flat-foot and kindred ailments barring men from the military service. A bulletin on foot hygiene and the correction of flat-foot was compiled for publication by the Military Bureau. This bulletin has been in great demand and has been highly appreciated by various military authorities.

The members of the department are publishing, through the American Physical Education Review, a Manual on War Sports, for use in high schools and army camps. The department has been asked by the Berkeley Board of Education to make a survey of the Berkeley schools and to recommend proper equipment and methods to meet the double demand of military and physical training.

F. W. Cozens, Instructor in Physical Education, is Instructor in Calisthenics in the School of Military Aeronautics.

The Department of Physical Education for Women is represented on the honor roll by Miss Maude Cleveland, Director of Women's Gymnasium and Assistant Professor of Physical Education, who is serving the government in France.

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