l8o SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Tlie following members of the Chemical Warfare Service have joined 

 the stafif of the Bureau of Standards since January: Captain J. M. 

 Braham, in the electrochemical laboratory; Lieut. C. W. Clifford, 

 sugar laboratory; S. C. Langdon, electrochemical laboratory; F. W. 

 Rp:ynolds (formerly at Edgewood Arsenal), laboratory of metallurgical 

 chemistry; P. WrightsmaxV, gas laboratory. 



Mr. J. R. Eckman, formerly of the Ordnance Department, has 

 joined the stafT of the Bureau of Standards as chemist in the analytical 

 laboratory. 



Dr. Graham Edgar, formerly secretary of the Washington office of 

 the Research Information Service, National Research Council, has 

 resigned and is now with the Nitrate Division of the Ordnance Depart- 

 ment of the Army. Mr. Gordon S. Fulcher is his successor as secre- 

 tary of the Information Service. 



Dr. C. vS. Hudson, Chief of the Carbohydrate Laboratory of the 

 Bureau of Chemistr}^ resigned from the Bureau on February 12, 

 1 91 9, and is now with the Samuel Heath Company, of Trenton, New 

 Jersey. 



Col. E. Lester Jones, after service in the Army for about a year, 

 both in America and France, has returned to his duties as head of the 

 Coast and Geodetic vSurvey. 



Dr. Chester N. Myers, organic chemist of the Hygienic Labora- 

 tory, Public Health Service, resigned from the Service early in March, 

 to organize a research laboratory for H. A. Metz and Company, manu- 

 facturers of local anesthetics and arsenicals, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Mr. W. B. Newkirk, formerly with the Oxnard vSugar Company, 

 has joined the staff of the Bureau of vStandards as sugar technologist. 



Capt. E. H. Pagenhart, of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, is 

 now stationed at Fort Barrancas, Pensacola, Florida. 



Captain L. L. vSteet.E, of the Ordnance Department, II. vS. A., has 

 joined the staff of the Bureau of Standards as chemist in the varnish 

 laboratory. 



ISIr. A. F. Stevenson, sanitary chemist with the Hygienic Labora- 

 tory, Public Health Service, resigned from the vService on March i, 

 to go into commercial research work in New York City. 



Mr. C. W. Stratford, formerly of the Tidewater Oil Company, has 

 recently come to the Bureau of Standards to take charge of an extensive 

 investigation on the general subject of lubrication, with particular 

 reference to the lubrication of internal combustion engines. 



A Coast and Geodetic Survey party, under the direction of O. W. 

 Swainson, is at work on the triangulation and topographic surveying 

 of the Virgin Islands, recently acquired from Denmark. 



Mr. E. D. WalEN, who for the past three years has been chief of the 

 Textile Section of the Bureau of Standards and has been engaged in war 

 research on the development of cotton fabrics as a substitute for linen 

 for use in airplane wing surfaces, resigned from the Bureau in February 

 and is now with the Textile Research Corporation at Boston, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



