SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



A Guide to United States Government Publications has been compiled, 

 by W. I. Swanton and has just been issued as Bulletin No. 2, 1918, 

 of the Bureau of Education.^ The bulletin gives not only information 

 concerning the mailing lists, methods of distribution, lists of publica- 

 tions, and classes of publications issued by every office of the executive 

 departments, but also a concise outline of the organization and functions 

 of every office. The bulletin should prove useful to all who have 

 occasion to use the publications of the Federal bureaus. 



Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, Director of the Astrophysical Ob- 

 servatory, has been appointed Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



Mr. J. C. HosTETTER, of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie 

 Institution, has returned to Washington after a year's absence in charge 

 of optical glass manufacture at the Charleroi plant of the Pittsburgh 

 Plate Glass Company. 



Mr. Logan Waller Page, director of the Bureau of Public Roads 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, died in Chicago on December 

 9, 1918, in his forty-ninth year. Mr. Page was born at Richmond, 

 Virginia, January 10, 1870. He was geologist to the Massachusetts 

 State Highway Commission and director of the testing laboratory' of 

 the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University from 1893 to 

 1900, when he entered the government service. He became director 

 of the Office of Public Roads (later the Office of Public Roads and 

 Rural Engineering) in 1905. Practically all of his work was devoted 

 to the building and maintenance of public roads. He was a member of 

 the Washington Society of Engineers, president of the American 

 Highway Association, and actively connected with a number of other 

 engineering societies. 



Dr. J. N. Rose, of the National Museum, and his son, George Rose, 

 who have been conducting botanical explorations in Ecuador during 

 the past summer, returned to Washington early in December. Collec- 

 tions of nearly two thousand numbers were obtained. 



Dr. A. HoYT Taylor, professor of physics at the University of North 

 Dakota, now lieutenant commander in the Navy, has resigned after a 

 year's leave of absence, and will continue his work at the Bureau of 

 Standards on naval radio communication. 



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