320 JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VOL. 11, NO. 13 



Dr. W. J. Humphreys of the Weather Bureau has been elected Secretary 

 of the American Geophysical Union, to succeed Dr. H. O. Wood, resigned. 



Mr. Enoch KarrER has resigned from the Bureau of Standards to accept 

 a position as physicist at the Nela Research Laboratory, Nela Park, Cleve- 

 land, Ohio. 



Mr. Sidney D. Kirkpatrick, chemist with the U. S. Tariff Commission, 

 has resigned to join the editorial staff of Chemical and Metallurgical En- 

 gineering, in New York City. 



Mr. Albert G. Loomis has resigned as assistant professor of chemistry 

 at the University of Missouri to become physical chemist at the new cryo- 

 ogenic laboratory of the Bureau of Mines. 



Dr. William M. Mann, assistant entomologist in the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, left Washington in June to accompany an expedition to the 

 region of La Paz, BoUvia, under the direction of Dr. H. H. Rusby, dean of 

 the school of pharmacy at Columbia University. The main object of the 

 expedition, which is financed by the H. K. Mulford Company, is the collec- 

 tion of herbs and plants likely to be of use in medicine, but general studies 

 will also be made of the fauna and flora. 



Dr. C. L. MarlaTT, assistant chief of the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science 

 from the Kansas State Agricultural College in June. 



Dr. J. C. Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Columbia Univer- 

 sity in June. 



Dr. Takejiro Murakami, assistant professor in the iron and steel re- 

 search institute of Tohoku Imperial University, Japan, visited Washington 

 in June. 



Mr. A. DE C. SowERBY visited the scientific institutions of Washington 

 in June, on his way to South China, where he will spend three years in an 

 extensive biological survey, with particular attention to the higher verte- 

 brates. 



Dr. C. G. Storm has been transferred from the position of professor of 

 chemical engineering at the Ordnance School of Application, Aberdeen 

 Proving Grounds, Maryland, to the office of the Manufacturing Service of 

 the Ordnance Department in Washington. 



Dr. Alexander Wetmore, of the Biological Survey, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, has returned from a year's collecting trip in Argentina. He 

 made a special study of the migratory shore birds. 



Dr. H. O. Wood, formerly assistant secretary of the National Research 

 Council, has been appointed a research associate of the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington, and is in California engaged in a reconnaissance of the south- 

 ern California seismological field, under the general supervision of an ad- 

 visory committee in seismology appointed by the Institution. 



Mr. Harper F. ZollER, formerly chemist with the Dairy Division Re- 

 search Laboratory, U. S. Department of Agriculture, is at present bacteri- 

 ological chemist for the Nizer Laboratories Company, manufacturers of 

 food products at Detroit, Michigan. 



