24 JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VOL. 11, NO. 1 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



A luncheon was given in the Smithsonian Building on November 16, 

 in honor of the seventieth birthday of Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, chief 

 of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Dr. J. Paul Goode, professor of geography at the University of Chi- 

 cago, gave an address before the General Staff at the Army War College 

 on November 12, on The geographic and economic foundations of the 

 world war. 



Mr. Ralph W. Howell, geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 was killed by native raiders in Beluchistan in the latter part of Novem- 

 ber, 1920. He was engaged at the time in oil exploratory work for 

 Pearson & Son of London, and was working near the Beluchistan- 

 Punjab border in an area that had been considered safe from bandits. 

 Mr. Howell was born in ISSG, and had been a member of the Survey 

 staff since 1913. He was granted leave of absence from the Survey in 

 October 1919 to engage in private work. He was a member of the 

 Geological Society. 



A series of lectures on Heaviside's operational methods as applied to 

 physical problems is being given at the Bureau of Standards by Professor 

 A. Press. 



Rear Admiral Edward R. Stitt, of the Naval Medical Corps, has 

 been appointed surgeon general of the Navy and chief of the bureau 

 of medicine and surgery, Navy Department, succeeding Rear Admiral 

 W. C. Braisted, who has been surgeon general of the Navy since 1914, 

 and who went on the retired list in November. 



Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan, geologist in charge of the Coastal Plain 

 section of the U. S. Geological Survey, is on leave for several months 

 to engage in private work in Mexico. 



Prof. Bailey Willis, formerly geologist on the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, and now professor of geology at Leland Stanford Junior Uni- 

 versity, California, is spending several months in Washington. 



