SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Division of Graphic Arts of the National Museum has installed an 

 exhibit showing the materials and processes involved in the manufacture of 

 hand-made paper. The exhibit was presented by Mr. Dard Hunter, of 

 Chillicothe, Ohio, one of the few makers of hand-made paper in America. 



The Petrologists' Club met at the Geophysical Laboratory on April 19. 

 Prof. W. J. Miller, of Smith College, Prof. R. A. Daly, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, and Drs. N. L. Bowen and P. Eskola of the Geophysical Lab- 

 oratory, discussed The origin and structure of the Adirondack anorthosites. 



A Mathematics Club has been organized at the Bureau of Standards by 

 members of the staff. Dr. F. D. Murnaghan addressed the Club on March 



28 on Relativity and vector analysis; modern methods in vector analysis. 



The collections in the Division of Physical Anthropology of the National 

 Museum have been enriched by an important accession. Dr. Edward A. 

 Spitzka, formerly professor of anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, Phila- 

 delphia, and for many years a student of brain morphology, has donated to 

 the Museum his complete collection of brains of distinguished persons. 



Dr. E. Q. Adams, of the color laboratory of the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, has resigned to accept a position at the Nela 

 Research Laboratory of the General Electric Company, Nela Park, Cleve- 

 land, Ohio. 



Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, of New York City, has forwarded to the National 

 Museum a 193-kilogram iron meteorite from Owens Valley, California. 



Dr. Reid Hunt, formerly of the Hygienic Laboratory, now professor of 

 pharmacology at the Harvard Medical School, has been appointed a member 

 of the advisory board of the Hygienic Laboratory of the Public Health 

 Service, to succeed the late W. T. Sedgwick. 



Mr. Ector B. Latham, hydrographic and geodetic engineer with the U. S. 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, died on April 7, 1921, at New Orleans, where he 

 was in charge of the Survey's local station. Mr. Latham was bom in Mc- 

 Minn County, Tennessee, June 9, 1864. He was appointed assistant at the 

 Survey in 1895, and had been in the service since that date, engaged in tri- 

 angulation and topographic, photo- topographic, hydrographic, and magnetic 

 work. He took part in the Survey's work in the Philippine Islands, and was 

 with the first expedition to the Mt. St. EHas region in Alaska. He was a 

 member of the Society of Engineers. 



Mr. B. H. Rawl, assistant chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, has resigned, effective April 30, to take charge 

 of the educational work of the California Central Creameries, with head- 

 quarters in San Francisco. 



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