SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Division of Mineral Resources of the U. S. Geological Survey 

 has been reorganized, with Dr. Edson S. Bastin as geologist in charge. 

 The section of metals will be in charge of G. F. Loughlin ; the section 

 of nonmetals, other than fuels, R. W. Stone; the section of mineral 

 fuels, C. E. Lesher; and the section of foreign resources, J. B. Um- 

 PLEBY. Mr. H. D. McCaskey, formerly chief of the Division, asked 

 to be relieved of his administrative duties after the signing of the arm- 

 istice in November, and will devote his time to special phases of 

 American mineral resources. 



Dr. SAMUEiy S. Adams has been elected vice-president of the faculty 

 of Georgetown University, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. 

 Frank Baker. 



Mr. A. D. CoNLEY, associate physicist in the paper and textile 

 laboratory of the Bureau of Standards, resigned from the Bureau in 

 February to take up special research for the Wm. E. Cooper Company, 

 of Baltimore, Maryland. 



Miss AiDA M. Doyle resigned from the Bureau of Chemistry in 

 February and is now with E- I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, of 

 Wilmington, Delaware. 



Mr. J. D. Edwards, associate chemist, and Mr. A. D. Bell, assis- 

 tant chemist. Bureau of Standards, expect to leave the Bureau in April 

 to take up research at the laboratory recently organized by Dr. F. C. 

 Frary for the Aluminum Company of America, at Pittsburgh, Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Dr. F. C. Frary, formerly of the Oldbury Chemical Company of 

 Niagara Falls, who has lately been engaged in war research, first in 

 Washington and later at the Edgewood Arsenal of the Chemical War- 

 fare Service, is organizing a research laboratory for the Aluminum 

 Company of America, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



Dr. Ales Hrdli^ka, Curator of Physical Anthropology in the U. S. 

 National Museum, has been elected a member of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society. 



Mr. W. H. Keen, formerly general manager of the Chemical Prod- 

 ucts Company and metallurgical superintendent of the Washington 

 Steel and Ordnance Company, is now factory manager of the U. S. 

 Copper Products Corporation, of Cleveland, Ohio. 



Dr. Willis T. Lee is on leave of absence from the Geological Survey, 

 and is now head of the Department of Geology and Director of the 

 School of Engineering Geology in the University of Oklahoma, at Norman, 

 Oklahoma. 



Major J. H. Mathews, who has been with the Ordnance Depart- 

 ment in Washington, has returned to the University of Wisconsin as 

 professor of physical chemistry. 



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