2o8 .SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Prof. J. C. Merriam, of the University of California, lias returned to 

 Washington to act as Chairman of the National Research Council. 



Mr. Robert L. Moore, of the Bureau of Standards, has been trans- 

 ferred to the rubber laboratory- of the Bureau at the University of 

 Akron, Akron, Ohio. 



Dr. James A. Nelson has resigned from the Bureau of Entomology 

 to take up farming near Mt. Vernon, Ohio, retaining a connection 

 with the Bureau as collaborator. 



Mr. John D. Northrop, of the Geological vSurvey, resigned at the 

 end of January to enter the emplo)^ of an oil company at Cheyenne, 

 Wyoming. 



Capt. U. W. Parsons, formerly with the Chemical Warfare Service, 

 is now at the Research Uaboratory of Applied Chemistry, Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



Capt. H. C. Porter, of the Ordnance Department, U. S. A., is now 

 with the Chemical Service Laboratories, Incorporated, at West Con- 

 shohocken, Pennsylvania. 



Lieut. Col. GIvEnn S. Smith sailed for the Dominican Republic in 

 INIarch to make a preliminary inspection of topography with the pur- 

 pose of organizing a topographic survey under the direction of the 

 military government of the Republic. 



Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan, accompanied by D. D. CondiT, C. W. 

 Cooke, and C. P. Ross, left New York on March 19 for the Dominican 

 Republic, to make a preliminary inspection of the geology in prepara- 

 tion for a geological survey under the direction of the military govern- 

 ment of the Republic. 



Dr. H. S. Washington, of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie 

 Institution, has been elected a foreign member of the Reale Accademia 

 dei Lincei of Rome. 



A new edition of the Directory of the Academy and its affiliated 

 societies (the "Red Book") was distributed early in March. 



