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fessor of geology and mineralogy in the University of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa, 

 Alabama. 



Dr. H. Foster Bain, consulting geologist and mining engineer, and formerly 

 editor of the Mining and Scientific Press and the Mining Magazine, has been 

 nominated as Director of the Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior, 

 to succeed Dr. F. G. Cottrell, who resigned on January 1 in order to de- 

 vote full time to his work as Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and 

 Chemical Technology, National Research Council. 



Dr. Henry Andrews Bumstead, professor of physics and director of the 

 Sloane Physical Laboratory, Yale University, and chairman of the National 

 Research Council in Washington, died on January 1, 1921, while on his way 

 to Washington from the Chicago meeting of the American Association. 

 Dr. Bumstead was born at Pekin, Illinois, March 12, 1870. He had been 

 connected with the department of physics at Yale since his graduation from 

 Johns Hopkins University in 1891. His research work had been chiefly in 

 the fields of radioactivity and Rontgen radiation. During the war he was 

 scientific attache to the American Embassy in London. 



Dr. M. E. Holmes has been appointed manager of the chemical department 

 of the National Lime Association, with offices at 918 G Street, Washington. 



Mr. B. L. Johnson has been placed in charge of the Section of Foreign 

 Mineral Reserves of the U. S. Geological Survey. 



Mr. Frederick H. Newell, formerly Chief of the U. S. Reclamation 

 Service, who in 1915 became professor of civil engineering at the University 

 of Illinois, has withdrawn from his university work and is again making his 

 headquarters in Washington. 



The party under E. W. Shaw, including G. L. Harrington, Edwin Kirk, 

 and C. P. Ross, geologists, and R. H. Sargent, topographer, which for nine 

 months has been making geologic and topographic surveys in South America, 

 has returned to this country. Mr. vShaw resumed his regular work on the 

 Geological Survey in January. 



Prof. C. J. Tilden, professor of engineering mechanics at Yale University, 

 has been granted leave of absence for a year to accept the position of director 

 of the highway and highway transport education committee, of which Dr. 

 P. P. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education, is chairman. The new 

 director will take charge immediately of the work planned by the committee, 

 which includes the compilation of economic, scientific, and engineering data 

 relative to highway construction and highway transport, and the distribution 

 of these data to educational institutions. 



