428 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Heller, of the American Museum of Natural History. Mr. Raven, 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, accompanied the expedition as naturalist 

 in charge of zoological and anthropological collections. The expedi- 

 tion will proceed from Cape Town to Victoria Falls, cross into the 

 Belgian Kongo, and then travel east to Lake Tanganyika, and will be 

 abroad for at least one year. 



Mr. R. L. V. StraTTon, who enlisted from the Geological Survey to 

 serve as paymaster in the Navy during the war and was stationed at 

 the Virgin Islands for about eighteen months assisting the new American 

 government of the islands in various capacities, has joined with Ralph 

 W. Richards, formerly a geologist of the Survey, in an engineering 

 firm with offices in Washington. They will specialize on the evaluation 

 of oil and gas properties and the determination of income taxes on such 

 properties. 



Dr. J. B. Umpleby, of the Geological Survey, has returned from Paris, 

 having been temporarily under the State Department assisting the 

 American delegation at the peace conference in mining matters. 



Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan, Mr. D. Dale Condit, and Dr. C. Wythe 

 Cooke, of the Geological Survey, have returned to Washington after 

 spending several months in a geologic reconnaissance of the Dominican 

 Republic for the Dominican Government. Mr. C. P. Ross, who was 

 also a member of the party, has remained a few weeks longer to make 

 special examinations of the water resources in the vicinity of Samana 

 Bay. Dr. Vaughan also visited Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and made ar- 

 rangements with the Haitian Government for a preliminary geological 

 survey of Haiti. At the request of the Navy Department he later made 

 geologic reconnaissances at various other points in the West Indies. 



Mr. C. M. Weber, of Balabac, Philippine Islands, has donated to the 

 National Museum an unusually fine series of Philippine land shells, 

 including new forms. 



Dr. R. C. Wells, of the Geological Survey, has returned from a visit 

 to the Marine Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 

 at Tortugas, Florida, where he made a number of chemical determina- 

 tions on water collected directly from the sea. 



Mr. Dean E. Winchester has returned to the Geological Survey 

 after a month's absence, during which he was engaged in a search for 

 mineral fuels on the island of Jamaica for private interests. 



Mr. Robert H. Wood has returned to professional work in the oil 

 and gas fields of Oklahoma, after spending several months in Washington 

 completing reports left unfinished when he left the Geological Survey a 

 year ago. 



