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Mr. George L. Harrington recently returned from vSouth America, 

 where he had been engaged for ten months in private work, and resumed 

 work in the Alaskan Division of the U. S. Geological Survey. He went 

 back to South America early in February. 



Mr. Herbert Insley has been transferred from the U. S. Geological Sur- 

 vey to the Bureau of Mines as petrographer. He will conduct petrographic 

 studies of dust in metal mines and related petrographic problems at the 

 experiment station of the Bureau at Pittsburgh. 



Mr. Edwin Kirk, who resigned from the U. S. Geological Survey in April, 

 192U, to do private work in South America, has been reinstated as geologist 

 with the Survey. 



Mr. J. C. Martin has resigned his position in the Foreign Mineral Section 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey, and will go into private work in oil geology. 



Mr. Homer F. vStaley, metallurgical ceramist at the Bureau of Standards, 

 resigned in December to become ceramic engineer with the Metal and Thermit 

 Corporation, 120 Broadway, New York City. 



Mr. Eugene Stebinger, formerly in charge of the Foreign Mineral Section 

 of the U. S. Geological Survey, has resigned to engage in private work. 



Dr. F. A. Wolff of the Bureau of vStandards gave a lecture before the 

 City Club on January 26 on A scientific analysis of Federal expenditures. 



