SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



A party of scientists has been sent by the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 at the request of the French High Commission, to Algeria, Tunis, and 

 Morocco to study and advise upon agricultural conditions there. The 

 party includes E. C. Chilcott, C. S. Scofield, and T. H. Kearney. 



Dr. Arthur L. Day has presented his resignation as director of the 

 Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, to be in 

 effect October 1, 1918, and will take up research on glass and allied 

 materials for the Corning Glass Works in Corning, New York. Dr. 

 Day has been director of the Laboratory since its establishment in 

 1906, having been previously engaged in silicate researches at the 

 U. S. Geological Survey in 1904 and 1905. 



Mr. F. A. McDermott, formerly research chemist with the Corby 

 Company, is at the experiment station of E. I. du Pont de Nemours 

 and Company, at Henry Clay, Delaware. 



Dr. H. C. McNeil, of the chemical department of the Bureau of 

 Standards, has been appointed professor of chemistry at George Wash- 

 ington University, as successor to Prof. C. E. Munroe, who is giving 

 all his time to the work of the Committee on Explosives Investigations 

 of the National Research Council. 



Prof. F. A. Saunders, professor of physics at Vassar College, 

 Poughkeepsie,'N. Y., is in Washington on leave of absence, engaged in 

 war work at the National Research Council. 



Dr. E. C. Shorey, in charge of the division of chemical investigations 

 of the Bureau of Soils, Department of Agriculture, has resigned to 

 accept a position with the National Aniline and Chemical Company, 

 at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania. 



Prof. W. J. Spillman, chief of the Office of Farm Management of 

 the Department of Agriculture, resigned on August 31, 1918, to become 

 editor of the Farm Journal. He will continue to reside in Washington 

 for the present. 



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