SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. P. W. Bridgman has returned from the naval experimental 

 station at New London, Connecticut, to the Jefferson Physical Lab- 

 oratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



Dr. Edgar Buckingham, who has been associated with the work of 

 the scientific attache of the American Embassy in Rome, returned to 

 Washington in February. 



Dr. George H. A. Clowes, formerly of the Gratwick Research 

 Laboratory at Buffalo, N. Y., and lately engaged in research at the 

 American University Experiment Station of the Chemical Warfare 

 Service on the physiological effects of war gases, left Washington in 

 January to take up biochemical research at the laboratories of EH 

 Lilly & Company, of Indianapolis, Indiana. 



Dr. Oliver L. Fassig, of the U. S. Weather Bureau, has been elected 

 secretary, and Mr. Francois E. Matthes, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, treasurer, of the Association of American Geographers. 



Major General John Headlam, who lectured before the Academy 

 in April 191 8, on "The development of artillery during the war," has 

 been awarded the distinguished service medal by vSecretary of War 

 Baker, "for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services rendered 

 the United States Army while serving as chief of the British Artillery 

 Mission to the United vStates." 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, Curator of Physical Anthropology in the United 

 States National Museum, has been made an Honorary Fellow of the 

 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 



Dr. M. S. Sherrill, formerly with the Ordnance Department in 

 Washington, sailed in January for an extended trip in South America. 



Dr. F. H. Symth, formerly of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology, and lately captain in the Chemical Warfare Service, stationed 

 at the American University Experiment Station, has received a 

 temporary appointment as physical chemist at the Geophysical 

 Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



ViLHjALMUR Stefansson was awarded the Hubbard Gold Medal of 

 the National Geographic Society on January 10, 191 9. 



Word has been received that Mr. M. N. Str.\ughn, formerly of the 

 Bureau of Chemistry in Washington, and a member of the Chemical 

 Society, died in Porto Rico on January 9, 1919. 



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