SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. H. Foster Bain has recently returned from China, and has 

 accepted the position of Assistant Director of the Bureau of Mines. 



Dr. Graham Edgar, of Throop College, Pasadena, California, has 

 been appointed Technical Assistant to the newly established Research 

 Information Committee, and has entered upon his duties at the office 

 of the National Research Council. Mr. Walter M. Gilbert, of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, is secretary of the local office of 

 the Committee. 



Dr. YoGORO Kato, formerly a member of the Research Laboratory 

 of Physical Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 and now professor in the Higher Technical School of Toyko and director 

 of the Nakamura Chemical Research Institute, visited Washington in 

 March. 



Dr. E. C. Lathrop, formerly of the Laboratory of Soil Fertility In- 

 vestigations, left Washington on May 1, 1918, to accept a position in 

 the organic dye research laboratory of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and 

 Co., at AVilmington, Delaware. 



Mr. Joseph U. Monroe, chief of the telegraph division of the 

 Weather Bureau, died suddenly on April 13, 1918, after a service with 

 the Bureau of twenty-seven years' duration. 



A ''Joint Information Board on Minerals and Derivatives" has been 

 formed for the purpose of systematizing the handhng of official inquiries 

 regarding minerals and mineral products. This body is intended to 

 serve as a clearing house to secure the prompt preparation and trans- 

 mittal of data from a single authoritative source without duplication of 

 effort, and is composed of representatives from the various government 

 bureaus, boards, arid departments ihterested. Mr. Pope Yeatman, of 

 the War Industries Board, Division of Raw Materials, is chairman, and 

 Dr. Edson S. Bastin, of the Geological Survey, is secretary of the new 

 Board. 



The following persons have become members of the Academy since 

 the last issue of the Journal: 



Mr. Sidney F. Blake, Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Joseph Augustine Cushivl^n, Sharon, Massachusetts. 



Mr. Ernest G. Fischer, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Professor William Suddards Franklin, Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



Mr. Ned Hollister, National Zoological Park, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Raymond Pearl, U. S. Food Administration, Washington, D. C. 



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