SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Captain Howard E. Ames, Medical Director, U. S. N., Retired, 

 died on December 27, 191 8. Dr. Ames had been an officer in the Navy 

 since 1875, and had been on the retired list since 191 2. He served as 

 medical officer on board the Bear, which rescued General Greely and 

 his party in the Arctic regions.' He was a member of the Biological 

 Society. 



Mr. Andrew Braid, hydrographic and geodetic engineer of the 

 U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sturvey, and chairman of the U. S. Geographic 

 Board, died on January 3, 1919, in his seventy-third year. He was a 

 native of Scotland, and had been in the service of the U. S. Government 

 since 1869. He was chief of the instrument division for several years, 

 and was in charge of the standard weights and measures of the United 

 States during the years just preceding the establishment of the Bureau 

 of Standards. 



Dr. Keivin Burns of the Division of Optics, Bureau of Standards, 

 is absent on an extended trip abroad in connection with his scientific 

 work. 



Col. G. A. Burrell, of the Chemical Warfare Service, returned to 

 private chemical engineering work at Pittsburgh in January. He 

 was called to Washington by the Bureau of Mines early in the war, to 

 take charge of the research organization that later became the American 

 University Experiment Station of the Chemical Warfare Service. 



Mr. Alonzo Howard Clark, curator of the division of history of 

 the National Museum, and editor of publications at the Smithsonian 

 Institution, died on December 31, 191 8, in his sixty-ninth year Mr. 

 Clark was bom at Boston, Massachusetts, April 13, 1850. He had 

 been with the Smithsonian Institution since 1881. He was the author 

 of several publications on the fishery industries of the United States, 

 and was a frequent contributor to historical and genealogical periodicals. 



Dr. G. W. CoggeshalIv has resigned from the Emergency Fleet 

 Corporation and has returned to the Institute of Industrial Research. 



Dr. A. S. CusHMAN has been honorably discharged as Lieutenant 

 Colonel, Ordnance Department, U. S. A., and has returned from Frank- 

 ford Arsenal, Philadelphia, to resume his former duties as director of the 

 Institute of Industrial Research. 



Mr. John Gaub, in charge of the laboratories of the Filtration Plant, 

 has resigned to become Health Officer and Examiner of Foods at Mont- 

 dair, New Jersey. 



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