SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. H. Foster Bain resigned from the Bureau of Mines in May, and 

 will sail from Vancouver on June 12 to continue his explorations in 

 China for New York mining interests. 



Professor Joseph Barrell, professor of structural geology at Yale 

 University, and a nonresident member of the Academy, died on May 

 4, 1 91 9, in his fiftieth year. Professor Barrell was born at New Provi- 

 dence, New Jersey, December 15, 1869. His early work was in mining 

 engineering and in the geological department of Lehigh University, 

 following which he entered the geological faculty of Yale in 1903. 

 Taking up geology from the view-point of the engineer, he made many 

 contributions to the science in the fields of structural geology, meta- 

 morphism, petrology of the igneous and metamorphic rocks, and sedi- 

 mentation and peneplanation in their relation to the larger problems 

 of the movements of the earth's crust. 



Lieut. Col. Alfred H. Brooks, geologist in charge of Alaskan Mineral 

 Resources, U. S. Geological Survey, who has been with the American 

 Army in France since the summer of 191 7, returned to Washington 

 on April 28. He has received his discharge from the Army and is 

 again taking up his geological work with the Survey. 



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

 returned in April from a visit to Texas, where he inaugurated explora- 

 tions of aboriginal workshops and village sites near Austin, Round 

 Rock, and Gatesville. The work is being continued by Prof. J. E. 

 Pearce of the University of Texas. 



Mr. James M. Hill, Jr., is on leave of absence from the Geological 

 Survey. He sailed from New Orleans early in April and is a member of 

 a party engaged in prospecting for platinum in Colombia. 



Dr. Walter Hough left Washington in May for Arizona, to conduct 

 ethnological and archeological explorations in the White Mountain 

 Apache Reservation for the Bureau of American Ethnology. 



Mr. Charles M. Hoy, of the National Museum, left Washington on 

 April 28 for Australia, to collect animals and other biological material 

 for the Museum. 



Mr. Neil M. Judd left Washington on May 14 for Utah, to make an 

 archeologic reconnaissance of the Paria plateau, near the Grand Canyon 

 of the Colorado. 



Dr. J. C. Martin, assistant curator in the division of economic 

 geology of the National Museum, resigned in May to accept a position 

 with the Geological Survey. 



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