SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 379 



Mr. Francis C. Frary, of the Oldbury Electrochemical C'ompany of 

 Niag:ara Falls, has been commissioned a captain in the Ordnance Of- 

 ficers' Reserve Corps, and is engaged in research with the Trench Wai- 

 fare Section, Engineering Bureau of the Ordnance Department, in 

 Washington. 



Dr. Grove Karl Gilbert, one of the charter members of the Acad- 

 emy, died at Jackson, Michigan, on May 1, 1918, within a few days of 

 his seventy-fifth birthday. He had been associated with the scientific 

 life of Washington for forty-seven years, having been geologist of the 

 Wheeler and Powell Surveys in 1871 and 1874, and one of the original 

 staff of the present U. S. Geological Survey at its establishment in 

 1879. Dr. Gilbert was a member of the Geological Society of Washing- 

 ton, of which he was president in 1895 and 1909; the Philosophical 

 Society of Washington, of which he was president in 1892; the National 

 Academy of Sciences; and many other American and foreign scientific 

 organizations. His broad-minded interest in the problems of the earth 

 kept him an active investigator throughout his life, and his published 

 papers cover ahiiost the entire range of modern geological science. 



Dr. Herbert E. Ives, formerly of the United Gas Improvement 

 Company of Philadelphia, has been commissioned a captain in the 

 Signal Corps, and is attached to the Science and Research Division of 

 the Signal Corps at 1023 Sixteenth Street, the headquartevs of the 

 National Reseafch Council. 



Lieutenant-Colonel C. F. Lee, in charge of the British Aviation Mis- 

 sion in Washington, who lectured before the Academy in March on 

 Aviation and the ivar, has returned to England for six weeks to inspect 

 new models of aircraft. 



Dr. Victor Lenher, professor of chemistry at the University of 

 Wisconsin, has been commissioned a major in the Chemical Service 

 Section, National Ami}-, and is stationed in Washington. 



Mr. P. W. Mason, formerly assistant professor of entomology at 

 Purdue University, was appointed on May 1, 1918, scientific assistant 

 in deciduous fruit insect investigations, in the Bureau of Entomology, 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, special representative of the Norwegian Gov- 

 ernment, and an honorary member of the Academy, returned to Nor- 

 way on May 11, after signing the general commercial agreement be-* 

 tween the L'nited States and Norway which has l^een in negotiation for 

 several months. 



To Professor F. H. Newell, of the University of Illinois, formerly 

 director of the U. S. Reclamation Service, the American Geographical 



