392 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



A series of deep-sea soundings off the southern Atlantic and Pacific 

 coasts of the United States are provided for in the plans for all the 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey steamers which are being sent this summer to 

 the Pacific coast. 



The offices of the National Research Council were removed on July i 

 from 1023 Sixteenth Street to the building formerly occupied by the 

 Navy League, at 1201 Sixteenth Street. 



In the course of the survey of the Florida Reefs by the U. S. Coast 

 and Geodetic steamer Hydrographer (C. H. Ober, commanding), an 

 improved type of sounding tube has been tested during recent months 

 in the deep waters of the Straits, with marked success. 



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

 Research Information Service, National Research Council, and lately 

 with the Nitrate Division, has been appointed professor of chemistry 

 at the University of Virginia. 



Dr. W. S. EiCHELBERGER, of the Naval Observatory, has been nam.ed 

 as one of three American correspondents of the Bureau des Longi- 

 tudes of France. 



Mr. CO. EwiNG has resigned from the Bureau of Chemistry to accept 

 the position of assistant chief chemist with the United Drug Company 

 (Liggett-Rexall) at Boston, Massachusetts. 



Dr. L. J. Gillespie, chemist in the Bureau of Plant Industry, has 

 been appointed professor of physical chemistry in Syracuse University, 

 Syracuse, New York. He will assume the new position about Septem- 

 ber I, 1919. 



Mr. William B. Heroy resigned from the Geological Survey on July 

 I, to accept a position on the editorial staff of the Electrical World, 

 published by the McGraw-Hill Company, in New York City. 



Mr. E. Lester Jones, chief of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, has 

 been given the degree of Master of Arts by Princeton University. 



Director Van H. Manning, of the Bureau of Mines, received the 

 honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering from the University of 

 Pittsburgh in June. 



Dr. S. W. Stratton, director of the Bureau of Standards, was given 

 the honorary degree of Doctor of Science by Yale University in June. 



Major Clarence J. West, formerly of the Editorial Section, Chemical 

 Warfare Service, will direct the newly-established Information De- 

 partment of the laboratories of Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts. 



Mr. R. R. Williams resigned from the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, in April and is now with the Melco Chem- 

 ical Company, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City, manufacturers 

 of isopropyl and other secondary alcohols and their derivatives, in- 

 cluding acetone and various esters. 



