SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 463 



Mr. John B. Henderson is at Barbados, British West Indies, with 

 Prof. C. C. Nutting's zoological expedition from the University of 

 Iowa. 



Mr. Neil M. Judd, assistant curator of anthropology in the National 

 Museum, has recently returned from explorations of the House Rock 

 valley and the Pahreah and Wahalla plateaus, on the north rim of the 

 Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. Several cHff dwellings and ruins 

 were discovered. Since his return to Washington, Mr. Judd has en- 

 listed in the aviation section of the Signal Corps. 



Prof L. KoMATSU, of the University of Kyoto, and Prof. K. Kita- 

 WAKi and Dr. Shibusawa, of Tokyo, visited Washington in June. 



Mr. E. S. Larsen, Jr., of the Geological Survey, has been examining 

 the tungsten resources of the Western States. 



Dr. H. M. LooMis, formerly of the Bureau of Chemistry, Department 

 of Agriculture, has been made chief inspector, for the Food Adminis- 

 tration, of the sardine canneries of Maine and Massachusetts. 



Mr. Frank N. Meyer, of the office of foreign seed and plant intro- 

 duction of the Bureau of Plant Industry, and agricultural explorer for 

 the Department of Agriculture, met an accidental death in China on or 

 about June 2, 1918, according to word received in Washington on June 

 18. He disappeared from a steamer on the Yangtze-Kiang and his body 

 was discovered a week later. Mr. Meyer had been an explorer in China, 

 Siberia, and Turkestan for about ten years past. He was a member of 

 the Botanical Society of Washington, and author of many contribu- 

 tions to botanical and horticultural science, including the discovery of 

 the origin of the chestnut-bark disease and the blight-resistant species 

 of chestnut in China. 



Prof. Samuel P. Mulliken, professor of organic chemistry at the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been commissioned a major 

 in the Chemical Service Section, National Army. 



Dr. James F. Norris, of the Bureau of Mines Experiment Station, 

 and formerly professor of applied chemistry at the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, has been commissioned a lieutenant-colonel and is 

 assigned to the embassy in London. 



Dr. William Battle Phillips, consulting mining geologist, of Hous- 

 ton, Texas, and a nonresident member of the Academy, died on June 7, 

 1918, at the age of 61. Dr. PhilHps had been connected during his life- 

 time with a wide variety of scientific and technical interests, having been 

 on the faculties of the University of North Carolina and the University 

 of Alabama; chemist of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company; a mem- 



