380 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Society has awarded the Cullom Geographical Medal. Other recipi- 

 ents of the medal have been: Rear-Admiral Peary, Fridtjof Nan- 

 sen, Sir John Murray, the Duke of the Abruzzi, Sven Hedin, Sir 

 Ernest Shackleton, and General Goethals. 



Mr. George A. Rankin, formerly of the Geophysical Laboratory, 

 is on leave of absence from the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company and 

 is engaged in research at the Experiment Station of the Bureau of 

 Mines, at the American University. 



Mr. C. E. Van Orstrand, of the Geological Survey, returned in May 

 from a field excursion in Texas, during which he made measurements 

 of the temperatures in a new 4,600-foot well near the Damon salt dome, 

 Damon, Texas. 



Mr. Rudolph J. Wig has resigned from the Bureau of Standards in 

 order to devote full time to his duties as chief engineer of the concrete- 

 ship department of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. 



Major Robert M. Yerkes, formerly professor of comparative psy- 

 chology at Harvard University, is attached to the Surgeon General's 

 Office and is in charge of the psychological testing of drafted men for 

 the National Army. 



The following persons have become members of the Academy since 

 the last issue of the Journal: 



Mr. Carleton Roy Ball, Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Robert Ervin Coker, Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C. 



Mr. Bertrand Leroy Johnson, U. S. Geological Survey, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Dr. Leo Loeb, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, 

 Missouri. 



Professor Archibald Byron Macallum, University of Toronto, 

 Toronto, Canada; and Honorary Advisory Council for Scientific and 

 Industrial Research, Ottawa, Canada. 



Mr. Donald Francis Macdonald, Ancon, Panama. 



