500 JOURNAL OF the; WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VOL. 11, NO. 20 



LiAM Bowie : The theory of isostasy; Monday, November 7, Harry Fielding 

 Reid: The causes of earthquakes; Monday, November 14, Lyman J. Briggs: 



The measurement of the acceleration of gravity at sea. 



Captain ErnEST h- Bennett, formerly in command of the battleship 

 New York, has been designated by the Navy Department as director of the 

 naval experimental and research laboratory now nearing completion at 

 Belleview, on the Potomac River below Washington. Five buildings, in- 

 cluding office and laboratory^ machine shop, forge and foundry, pattern 

 shop, and power plant, are under construction. 



Dr. Torbjorn Gaarder, director of the biochemical laboratory of Ber- 

 gens Museum, Bergen, Norway, visited the scientific institutions of Wash- 

 ington early in November. 



The Directors of the American Chemical vSociety have elected Mr. H. E. 

 Howe, of the National Research Council, editor of the Journal of Industrial 

 and Engineering Chemistry to succeed Dr. Charles H. Herty, who has 

 resigned to become president of the newly organized Association of Synthetic 

 Organic Chemical Manufacturers. 



Dr. William C. Kendall, scientific assistant and ichthyologist of the 

 U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, has resigned after nearly thirty-three years of 

 service with the Bureau, to accept the position of ichthyologist in the Roose- 

 velt V,''ild Life Forest Experiment Station of the New York State College 

 of Forestry, Syracuse, New York. 



The collection of birds of the late William Palmer has been transferred 

 from George Washington University to the Division of Birds, U. S. National 

 Museum. This collection is noteworthy for the number of District of Colum- 

 bia records and for the young and molting plumages it contains. 



Dr. GusTAV TroEdsson, paleontologist at the University of Lund, Sweden, 

 and now traveling on a fellowship in the United States, spent a part of October 

 in studying the Cambrian and Ordovician collections in the National Museum. 



Mr. S. L. Willis, formerly in charge of the preparation of ceramic data 

 for the U. S. Tariff Commission, has resigned to accept a position with the 

 Corning Glass Works of Corning, New York. 



