SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



A wireless message from Libbeyville, Alaska, on August 18, 1918, 

 announces that the National Geographic Society's party in the Valley 

 of Ten Thousand Smokes, in charge of Mr. Jasper Sayre, has made 

 continuous records of the temperature of more than one hundred vents 

 and has extended the map of the area to Bristol Bay. 



Dr. W. L. Argo, formerly of the University of California, has been 

 commissioned a lieutenant in the Chemical Warfare Service and has 

 been sent to France. 



Dr. Samuel Avery of the University of Nebraska, who has been for 

 the past several months with the National Research Council, has been 

 commissioned a major in the Chemical Warfare Service and placed 

 in charge of the University Relations Section. 



Mr. William Bowie, hydrographic and geodetic engineer, and chief 

 of the division of geoclesy of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 

 has been commissioned a major in the Engineer Corps, U. S. A., and 

 has been assigned to duty in the department of map making. 



Major Charles B. Davenport, Sanitary Corps, N. A., formerly 

 director of the Department of Experimental Evolution of the Car- 

 negie Institution, has been placed in charge of thr Section of Anthro- 

 pology of the Division of Medical Records. This new section, which 

 is organized under the Surgeon General's Office of the Army, was 

 created on July 23, 1918. 



Mr. Henry M. Eakin, formerl}^ with the Alaska Division of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, resigned in April to enter the employment 

 of a large lumber company in Alger, Washington, as topographer and 

 forester. 



Prof. Moses Gomberg, professor of organic chemistry at the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, has been commissioned a major in the Ordnance 

 Department and is stationed in Washington. 



Prof. A. S. Hitchcock, Bureau of Plant Industry, spent the month 

 of August studying and collecting grasses in Arkansas, Oklahoma, 

 Texas, and Colorado. 



Prof. Edw^\rd V. Huntington is on leave of absence from Harvard 

 University and has been commissioned a major, with assignment to 

 statistical study under the General Staff in Washington. 



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