J. F. Drake has resigned as assistant to the president of the Gulf Oil Corporation to accept the election as vice-president and a director of the Standard Steel Car Company and subsidiary companies. These include the following: The Baltimore Car and Foundry Company; The Middletown Car Company; The Forged Steel Wheel Company; The Steel Car Forge Company; The Butler Car Wheel Company; The Butler Bolt and Rivet Company; The Standard Motor Truck Company; The Verona Steel Castings Company; The Lyndora Land and Improvement Company; Les Enterprises Industrielles Charentaises. These companies are owned by the Mellon family,, which also owns a controlling interest in the Gulf Oil Corporation. The consolidated balance sheet of the Standard Steel Car Company and subsidiary companies showed assets of approximately $80,000,000 as of July 1, 1922, with capital of $4,000,000 and surplus of $48,000,000. Since that date a stock dividend of $20,000,000' has been declared. Drake's headquarters will be in Pittsburgh in the Frick Building.
Robert H. Elliott sailed early in January with a party of friends for travel in Egypt, Greece, Italy, and France.
Burr R. Whitcher has contributed to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal a highly scientific article entitled "Blood Changes in Myelogenous Leukaemia Following Radium Treatment."
The address of Frank E. Cofran is at present unknown to the Secretary.
Secretary, Prof. George W. Elderkin, Princeton, N. J.