462 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Mr. E. J. Casselman, formerly engineer of tests of the Washington 

 Steel and Ordnance Company, is assistant chemist with the Hygienic 

 Laboratory for the Public Health Service. 



Professor A. D. Cole, professor of physics at Ohio State University, 

 is in Washington for the summer, engaged in research work at the Bureau 

 of Standards. 



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Professor M. F. Coolbough, of the department of chemistry, Colo- 

 rado School of Mines, is in Washington on leave of absence and is en- 

 gaged in war work at the Bureau of Mines. 



Dr. Arthur L. Day, director of the Geophysical Laboratory, re- 

 ceived the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Princeton Uni- 

 versity on June 15, 1918. 



Professor Fred Dunlap, of the University of Missouri, formerly with 

 the forest products section of the U. S. Forest Service, was in Washing- 

 ton in June arranging to do special work for the Service in the Mis- 

 sissippi Valley. 



Mr. Roy Y. Ferner, associate physicist of the Bureau of Standards, 

 resigned from the Bureau in June, and is now connected with the instru- 

 ment purchasing section of the Shipping Board, in Philadelphia. 



Professor E. C. Franklin, of the department of chemistry, Leland 

 Stanford Junior University, and Professor William S. Franklin, of 

 the department of physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are 

 in Washington for the summer, engaged in research work at the Bureau 

 of Standards. 



Mr. Owen B. French, formerly Assistant in the U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, has gone to Peking, China, to take the chair of Geod- 

 esy and Pi-actical Astronomy in the Government Listitute of Military 

 Surveying. He sailed fiom San Francisco on March 16 and arrived in 

 Peking on April 13, 1918, having spent a few days in Japan. He expects 

 to remain in Peking for somewhat less than two years and will then 

 return to Washington. 



Dr. George Gaumer, botanist and ethnologist, of Yucatan, Mexico, 

 was in Washington in May in conference with scientists of the National 

 Museum. 



Mr. William J. Hammer, consulting physicist and electrical engineer, 

 of New York, has been commissioned a major in the National Army, and 

 is assigned to duty in Washington with the newly organized Inventions 

 Section of the General Staff. 



