636 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Mr. William deC. Ravenel has been placed in immediate charge of 

 the administration of the National Museum with the title Adminis- 

 trative Assistant to the Secretary. The position of Assistant Secretarj^ 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the National Museum, 

 made vacant by the recent death of Dr. Richard Rathbun, has been dis- 

 continued, effective November 1. Mr. Ravenel has been connected 

 with the Museum in an administrative capacity since 1902. 



Miss McDow^ELL, Professor of Physics at Wellesley College, has re- 

 turned to the Bureau of Standards on leave of absence. 



Dr. F. W. McNair, President of the Michigan School of Mines, is 

 now at the Bureau of Standards working on airplane engine problems. 



Mr. George W. Morey, of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie 

 Institution, has been given a year's leave of absence and is in charge 

 of the optical glass plant of the Spencer Lens Company at Hamburg, 

 New York. 



Dr. C. NussBAUM, formerly instructor in physics at Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has been engaged in the study of aeronautic instruments at 

 the Bureau of Standards during the past summer. 



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Mr. E. P. Peck, formerly Superintendent of Operation of the Georgia 

 Railway and Power Company, has recently come to the Bureau of 

 Standards to assist in work connected with the standardization of 

 electrical apparatus for the War Department. 



Mr. B. H. Rawl, chief of the Dairy Division of the Bureau of Ani- 

 mal Industry since 1909, has been appointed assistant chief of the 

 Bureau. 



Dr. William H. Ross, of the Bureau of Soils, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, has been commissioned a captain in the Chemical War- 

 fare Service, and has been assigned to the Edgewood Arsenal, Edge- 

 wood, Maryland. 



