SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Paul Bartsch, of the National Museum, has returned from an 

 extended lecture tour to various army camps. 



Mr. C. F. BowEN resigned from the Geological Survey in April to 

 enter the employ of the Carter Oil Company. He will leave soon 

 for a six months' trip in Venezuela and Colombia. 



Mr. F. W. Dearborn of the Ordnance Department has joined the 

 staff of the Bureau of Standards and will be engaged in research on the 

 chemistry of cellulose. 



Mr. Wilson B. Emery resigned from the Geological Survey in April 

 to enter the employ of the Ohio Oil Company at Cheyenne, Wyoming. 



The Chicago Speedway Hospital has been turned over to the Public 

 Health Service, and two of the seven subdivisions of the building will 

 be devoted to research and to the instruction of public health officers. 

 This part of the work of the hospital will be under the direction of Dr. 

 Joseph Goldberger, of the Hygienic Laboratory. 



Dr. J. A. Harker, formerly of the National Physical Laboratory, in 

 London, visited Washington in March on business connected with the 

 organization of scientific and industrial research in England. 



Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, a patron of the Academy, died at 

 her home at Pleasanton, California, on April 13, 1919, in her seventy- 

 seventh year. She was the widow of the late Senator George Hearst, 

 of California, coming with him to Washington in 1886. She took an 

 active part in educational affairs during her residence in the city. She 

 was elected a patron of the Academy in 1901. 



Mr. O. B. Hopkins, of the Geological Survey, is on leave of ab- 

 sence and is engaged in work for the Imperial Oil Company in Canada. 



Mr. H. E. Howe, formerly manager of the commercial department of 

 A. D. Little, Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts, will hereafter 

 devote his efforts to the interests^of the National Research Council and 

 particularly to the work of its Division of Industrial Research. Mr. 

 Howe was attached to the Nitrate Division of the Ordnance Department, 

 U. S. A., during the latter part of the war. 



Mr. M. B. Long, of the gas laboratory of the Bureau of Standards, 

 has resigned in order to accept a position in the research laboratory of 

 the Western Electric Company, in New York City. 



Mr. J. B. Norton, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, who has been 

 appointed Agricultural Explorer in the Office of Foreign Seed and 

 Plant Introduction, has left Washington on an expedition to China. 



Mr. B. E. SivE, formerly of the chemical reagent testing laboratory 



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