ARKANSAS
Dr. Cromer Appointed Dean at Arkansas.—
Dr. Stuart P. Cromer of the staff of the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals, American Medical Association, Chicago, has been appointed dean of the University of Arkansas School of Medicine, Little Rock, succeeding Dr. Frank Vinsonhaler. Dr. Cromer graduated at Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, in 1935. From 1935 to 1937 he was assistant superintendent of the Illinois Research and Educational Hospital, Chicago. He was medical director of Baylor University Hospital, Dallas, Texas, from 1937 until April 1938, when he joined the staff of the American Medical Association.
CALIFORNIA
Mussels Placed Under Quarantine.—
A quarantine order has again been issued by the state department of health prohibiting the taking, sale or offering for sale of mussels gathered along the ocean shore from the southern boundary of Los Angeles County to the California-Oregon boundary line, excepting the bay of San Francisco. The ban