SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Honoraiy Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Re- 

 search of Canada visited Washington on February 25-28. The Coun- 

 cil is considering plans for the encouragement of scientific research in 

 Canada, and spent some days in consultation with members of the 

 National Research Council, and in visiting the scientific bureaus of 

 the ( Jovernment. The visiting members were: Professor A. B. Macal- 

 LUM, of the University of Toronto, (chiirman); Professor S. F. Kirk- 

 PATRicK, of Queen's University, Kingston; Professor R. F. Ruttan and 

 Professor F. D. Adams, of McGill University, Montreal; President A. S. 

 Mackp^nzie, of Dalhousie University, Halifax; Mr. Arthur Surveyer, 

 of Montreal; Mr. J. B. Challies, of the Water Power Branch, Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, Ottawa, (Honorary Secretary o: the Council). 



Professor C. A. Kofoid, of the Department of Zoology, University 

 o' California, has been commissioned a major in the Sanitary Corps 

 of the National Army, and is stationed at the Department Laboratory, 

 Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas. 



Major R. A. Millikan, member of the National Research Council 

 and Chief of the Science and Research Division of the Signal Corps, 

 has been commissioned a Lieutenant Colonel in the Signal Corps. 



In honor of the appointment of Dr. J. W. Fewkes as Chief of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, a complimentary luncheon was ten- 

 dered to him and Mrs. Fewkes at the Smithsonian Institution on 

 Friday, March 1, 1918. Every member of the staff and all the em- 

 ployees of the Bureau were present. At the close of the luncheon 

 Dr. Fewkes made a brief address, recalling the high traditions of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology and outlining plans for its further development. 

 The primary objects of ethnologic research in this country were de- 

 fined by Dr. Fewkes as, Man in America, — wher-e did he come from, 

 hoiv long has he been here, and what has he been doing since he came? 

 Short sijeeches were made by members of the Bureau, the first 

 speaker being Mr. James Mooney, who noted that the study of eth- 

 nology tends to bind the whole human race together by securing a 

 better understanding of mankind. 



The following persons have become members of the Academy since 

 the last issue of the Journal: Mr. Lon A. Hawkins, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C; Dr. Oscar 

 Riddle, Department of Experimental Evolution of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New 

 York; Mr. Erskine Douglas Williamson, Geophysical Laboratory 

 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C. 



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