SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 461 



Superintendents of the experiment stations of the Bureau of Mines 

 met in Washington on May 13-lG, 1918. Those in attendance were: 

 Van H. Manning, Director; L. H. Duschak, Berkeley, Cal.; E. A. 

 HoLBRooK, Urbana, 111.; J. O. Lewis, Bartlesville, Okla.; D. A. Lyon, 

 Washington; R. B. Moore, Golden, Col; F. G. Moses, Salt Lake City, 

 Utah; Edmund Newton, Minneapolis, Minn.; R. T. Stull, Columbus, 

 Ohio; C. E. Van Barneveld, Tucson, Ariz.; Thomas Varley, Seattle, 

 Wash.; A. E. Wells, Salt Lake City, Utah. 



A section on medicines and medical supphes has been added to the 

 War Industries Board, with Lieut. -Col. F. F. Simpson as chief of the 

 section. It will be closely coordinated with that section of the Chemical 

 Division which deals with fine chemicals. 



The authorized quota for the Chemical Service Section of the National 

 Army has been increased to a total of over 1300. 



The Bureau of Yards and Docks, Nav>' Department, has awarded a 

 conti'act for the construction of a mine laboratory, to cost $73,000, at 

 the Washington Navy Yard. 



The Magnetic Survey Vessel, Carnegie, arrived safely at her home 

 port, Washington, D. C, on June 10, where she will be put out of com- 

 mission probablj^ during the period of the war. During her cruise from 

 Buenos Aires, Argentina, round the Horn to Valparaiso, Chile, Callao, 

 Peru, thence through the Panama Canal to Newport News, she was in 

 command of Dr. N. W^. Edmonds; the other members of the scientific 

 staff aboard were: Messrs. A. D. Power, Bradley Jones, L. L. Tanguy, 

 J. M. ]\IcFadden, and Walter E. Scott. On Sunday, June 23, she 

 was visited by a number of the scientific men of Washington. 



Prof. E. C. Franklin, of Stanford University, California, Mr. Wm. 

 HosKiNS, of Chicago, Dr. Wm. H. Nichols, of the General Chemical 

 Company, Prof. T. W. Richards, of Harvard University, Prof. H. P. 

 Talbot, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Prof. S. 

 P. Venable, of the U^niversity of North Carolina, were in Wiashington 

 in ^lay in attendance upon the opening conference between the national 

 advisory committee of the Experiment Station of the Bureau of Mines, 

 and the members of the Bureau in charge of the work of the Experiment 

 Station. 



Maj. James W. Bagley, of the Engineers Corps, National Army, for- 

 merly of the Geological Survey, has been assigned to duty at the office 

 of the Chief of Engineers in Washington. 



Mr. William T. Brigham, director of the Bishop Museum of Hono- 

 lulu, Hawaii, was in Washington in June, in conference with scientists of 

 various government bureaus. 



