SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the annual meeting of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, held on December 12, 1918, Senator Thomas, of Colorado, 

 and Representatives Ferris, Padgett, and Greene were elected to 

 membership on the Board. 



The Bureau of Fisheries, U. S. Department of Commerce, will build 

 a new laboratory, estimated to cost $50,000, at Seventh and B Streets. 



Experimental work at the American University Experiment Station, 

 of the Chemical Warfare Service was discontinued on December 31, 

 the most of the personnel having been transferred or discharged. A 

 few of the officers remain to write up reports of the work of the Station. 



Dr. N. Iv. Bowen, of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institu- 

 tion, has accepted the professorship of mineralogy at Queen's Univer- 

 sity, Kingston, Ontario. 



Major General William Crozier, U. S. A., former Chief of Ordnance 

 and later commander of the Northeastern Military Department at 

 Boston, has been transferred to the retired list of the Army on his own 

 application, after a service of nearly forty years. 



Professor E. C. Franklin returned to Stanford University, Cali- 

 fornia, in December, after spending the greater part of the past year 

 in research on the synthetic process for the fixation of nitrogen. 



Dr. George E. Hale, of the National Research Council, and Prof. 

 A. A. NoYES, of the Nitrate Committee, returned from England in 

 December. 



Mr. Henry Hinds has resigned from the Geological Survey to enter 

 the employ of the Sinclair Oil and Gas Company, at Tulsa, Oklahoma. 



Lieut. Herbert Graham Kubel, formerly cartographer with the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, died on December 30, 1918. He left the posi- 

 tion of acting chief engraver of the Survey in January, 1918, to receive 

 a commission as first lieutenant in the Air Service. He was a member 

 of the Society of Engineers. 



Dr. H. A. LuBS has resigned from the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, to enter the employ of E. I. du Pont de 

 Nemours & Company, 



Prof. J. C. Merriam, of the National Research Council, returned 

 to the University of California in December. 



Professor Joji Sakurai, director of the newly established Institute 

 of Physical and Chemical Research in Tokyo, Japan, visited Washing- 

 ton in December. 



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