464 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



ber of the staff of several technical journals; director of the University of 

 Texas Mining Survey; and president of the Colorado School of Mines. 

 He was the author of nearly three hundred papers.and reports on scien- 

 tific and technical subjects. 



Prof. C. A. Skinner, professor of physics at the University of Ne- 

 braska, has been on leave of absence since early this year, and is engaged 

 in research at the Bureau of Standards. 



Dr. William S. Thayer of Baltimore, a nonresident member of the 

 Academy, is in France as Medical Director with the U. S. Expeditionary 

 Forces. Dr. Thayer returned a few months ago from Russia with the 

 American Red Cross Mission. 



Dr. Harry W. Tyler, professor of mathematics at the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, is in Washington for the summer as a 

 special agent in the federal emplo^anent service. 



Dr. Ralph G. Van Name, of the department of chemistry, Yale 

 University, came to Washington in June for war research at the Ameri- 

 can University Experiment Station of the Bureau of Mines. 



Professor E. W. Washburn, of the department of ceramics. Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, is in Washington for the summer, engaged in chemical 

 work for the National Research Council. 



