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Major J. W. Bagley of the Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, who was 

 formerly with the U. S. Geological vSurvey, has been assigned to duty at the 

 Air Service Engineering Field at Dayton, Ohio, as representative of the En- 

 gineers in experimental work connected with the adaptation of aerial pho- 

 tography to mapping. 



Mr. Edward Chester Barnard, member of the International (Canadian) 

 Boundary Commissions, died on February G, 1921, in his fifty-eighth year. 

 Mr. Barnard was born in New York City, November 13, 1863. After gradua- 

 tion from the Columbia Univers ty School of Mines in 1884 he joined the 

 U. S. Geological vSurvey, and as topographer and, later, geographer with the 

 Survey until 1915 took part in the mapping of Alaska and many of the western 

 States. In 1915 he was appointed commissioner for the United vStates in the 

 International (Canadian) Boundary Commissions, with which he had been 

 chief topographer since 1903, engaged in the resurvey of the boundary line 

 along the 49th parallel. He was a member of the Academy and the Geo- 

 logical Society, and was president of the Washington Society of Engineers in 

 1920. 



Mr. Frederic Perkins Dewey, Assayer of the Bureau of the Mint, U. S. 

 Treasury Department, died on February 10, 1921, in his sixty-sixth year. 

 Mr. Dewey was born at Hartford, Connecticut, October 4, 1855. After 

 graduation from Yale University he became instructor in chemistry at 

 Lafayette College. From 1881 to 1889 he was connected with the U. S. 

 Government, first as chemist with the Tenth Census, then as mineralogist 

 with the Geological Survey, then as curator in the National Museum. After 

 24 years in chemical and metallurgical patent practice he became assayer 

 of the Mint in 1903. He was a member of the Academy, and was one of 

 the founders of the Chemical vSociety of \A'ashington, of which he was presi- 

 dent in 1893. 



Mr. R. N. Harger, assistant biochem'st at the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 U. S. Department of x\griculture, resigned in September to accept a National 

 Research Council fellowship in chemistry. The research is in organic chem- 

 istry, and is being carried on at Yale University. 



Mr. Herbert C. Hoover of California has been elected a trustee of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Mr. J. A. Jeancon has resigned his position as temporary ethnologist in 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology and has accepted a position in Denver 

 as head curator of the Colorado vState Museum. 



A farewell reception and buffet supper in honor of Secretary of Agriculture 

 Edwin T. Meredith was held at the Raleigh on February 16 and was at- 

 tended by about 600 members of the scientific and technical staff. The 

 committee in charge consisted of Charles E. Chambliss and R. G. Pierce, 

 representing the Botanical Society of Washington; F. R. Ouackenbush, the 

 American Association of Engineers; J. Kittredge, Jr., the Society of For- 

 esters; and V. K. Chesnut, the Chemical Society of Washington. 



Dr. L. A. MiKESiGV has resigned from tlfe Color Laboratory of the Bureau 

 of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agricluture, to join the stafl' of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research, New York City. 



Mr. Thomas M. Rector, formerly n charge of the division of food tech- 

 nology in the Institute of Industrial Research, has been appointed director 

 of the department of industrial chemistry of the Pease Laboratories, Inc., of 

 New York City. 



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