426 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Mr. J. G. Fairchild has been reinstated as assistant chemist in the 

 Geological Survey after seven years of chemical work in other govern- 

 ment bureaus and for private interests. During part of this time he 

 studied explosives for the arsenal at Dover, N. J., and more recently 

 nitrous gas problems for the Bureau of Soils. 



Mr. R. Iv. Faris, Assistant Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey, has been nominated by the President as a civilian member of 

 the Mississippi River Commission, to succeed the late Homer P. 

 RiTTER. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 left for the Mesa Verde in July to continue his work in the archeological 

 development of the Park. 



Mr. Gerard Fowke, who has been conducting archeological field 

 work for the Bureau of American Ethnology in Missouri, has recently 

 sent to the National Museum a large collection of specimens from the 

 Miller Cave, Pulaski County, the largest and most significant collection 

 yet obtained from a Missouri cave. 



Dr. Walter Hough has recently returned from the White Mountain 

 Apache Reservation, Arizona, where he conducted explorations for the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology in a group of large ruins west of Cibecue. 



Mr. HoYT S. Gale, of the Geological Survey, who has spent several 

 months investigating the potash resources of Europe for the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior, has made a study of the deposits of Alsace and of 

 Spain, and will study those of Stassfurt, Germany, before returning to 

 the United States. 



Capt. Herbert C. Graves, hydrographer in charge of coastal sur- 

 veys of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, died suddenly in London on 

 July 26 at the 4ge of forty -nine. He had been abroad since June 12 as a 

 representative of the United States at the International Hydrographic 

 Conference, and was also one of the delegates from the American Sec- 

 tion of the proposed International Geophysical Union, which met in 

 Brussels in July. He was the Secretary of the Washington Society of 

 Engineers. 



Dr. E. C. Harder has again taken up his work in the iron and steel 

 section of the Geological Survey, after spending four months on leave 

 of absence in geological investigations in Brazil for commercial in- 

 terests. 



Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist of the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology, returned to Washington in July, after extended field studies 

 among the Onondaga near Syracuse, New York, and the Mohawk, 

 Aaynga, and Onondaga on the Grand River Grant near Brantford, 

 Ontario. 



Mr. J. C. HosTETTER has resigned from the Geophysical Laboratory 

 of the Carnegie Institution, to take up research and development work 

 for the Steuben Glass Works, of Corning, New York. 



