108 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. George E. Hale, Director of the Mount Wilson Solar Observa- 

 tory at Pasadena, California, has been in Washington since last spring 

 as Chairman of the National Research Council, which is now acting as 

 the Department of Science and Research of the Council of National 

 Defense. 



Mr. NICHOLAS H. Heck has been transferred from the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey to the Navy Department, as a Lieutenant in the 

 Naval Reserve Forces. 



Dr. George Tully Vaughan has been called to active service in 

 the Medical Corps of the Navy. 



Dr. Otto Klotz, who with the late Dr. W. F. King, his predecessor, 

 was a founder of the Dominion Astronomical Observatory at Ottawa, 

 has been appointed Chief Astronomer and Director of the Observatory. 

 Dr. Klotz has presented his scientific library of some 2000 volumes, a 

 collection of a lifetime, to the Observatory. 



Prof. Charles A. Kofoid, of the Department of Zoology, Univer- 

 sity of California, has been elected a corresponding member of the 

 Societe de Pathologic Exotique of Paris. 



Prof. J. C. Merriam, of the University of California, has been in 

 Washington for several months on business connected with the National 

 Research Council. 



Dr. Charles Doolittle Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, has been elected a corresponding member of the Academic 

 des Sciences of Paris in the section of geology, in place of Sir Archibald 

 Geikie, who has been elected a foreign associate. 



The following have become members of the Academy since the be- 

 ginning of the year: Prof. Charles August Kraus, Clark University, 

 Worcester, Massachusetts; Dr. Philip S. Roy, 1200 Massachusetts 

 Avenue; Prof. John Warren Smith, Weather Bureau; Dr. Edwin' 

 Frederick Wendt, Interstate Commerce Commission. 



