378 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Amundsen, has supplied for use in his forthcoming arctic expedition a 

 complete set of magnetic instrimients, as well as the necessary direc- 

 tions for magnetic measurements and the program of work. Captain 

 Amundsen plans to leave Norway this summer in a new vessel, the 

 Maud, built specially for arctic exploration, and has made his arrange- 

 ments on the expectation that his expedition will require about five years 

 for completion. He will make scientific observations of various kinds 

 in the arctic regions. The final details with regard to the contemplated 

 arctic magnetic observations were arranged at the laboratory of the 

 Department by Dr. Nansen and Captain Amundsen on April 5. 



On account of difficulties with transportation, Professor R. F. Griggs, 

 of the Ohio State University, has been obliged to abandon his plan 

 to lead another expedition this summer to Mount Katmai, Alaska, 

 under the auspices of the National Geographic Society. The work 

 planned for this summer has not been entirely abandoned, however, 

 as two members of last year's expedition, Messrs. Sayre and Hagel- 

 BARGER, left for Alaska on May 2, taking with them pyrometers furnished 

 by the Geophysical Laboratory, with which it is hoped to obtain data 

 on the temperatures of the fumaroles in the " Valley of Ten Thousand 

 Smokes." 



Chancellor Samuel Avery, of the University of Nebi;aska, is now 

 connected with the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology 

 of the National Research Council. 



Professor Watson Bain, professor of applied chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of Toronto, is in Washington as a member of the Canadian War 

 Mission. 



Mr. H. A. Baker, chief chemist of the American Can Company, is in 

 charge of problems of tin plate supply at the U.S. Food Administration. 



Lieutenant-Colonel Hiram Bingham, formerly Professor of Latin 

 American History at Yale University, is Chief of the Air Personnel 

 Division of the Signal Corps. 



Professor W. C. Bray, of Ihe department of chemistry. University, 

 of California, came to Washington in May to engage in research on war 

 problems with the Bureau of Mines. 



Dr. A. D. Brokaw, assistant professor of mineralogy and chemical 

 geology at the University of Chicago, is on the staff of the U. S. 

 Fuel Administration, in charge of oil production east of the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



Dr. Joseph A. Cushman, of Sharon, Massachusetts, was in Wash- 

 ington for a few days in May, after several weeks of geologic field 

 work in the coastal plain of North Carolina. 



