SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 33 1 



Mr. Earl V. Shannon has been appointed Assistant Curator in the 

 Department of Geology of the National Museum. 



Capt. D. L. Williams, formerly of the Chemical Warfare Service, 

 and stationed at the American University Experiment Station, is now 

 in Utica, New York. 



Major O. B. Zimmerman, formerly liaison officer between the Army 

 Engineer Corps and the Bureau of Standards, is now with the Inter- 

 national Harvester Company in Chicago. 



ORGANIZATION OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 

 (Figures in parenthesis indicate term of office) 

 Chairman of the Council: James R. Angell. 

 division of physical sciences 

 Chairman: C. E. Mendenhall; Representatives of American Astro- 

 nomical Society: W. W. Campbell (2), H. N. Russell (i), Joel 

 Stebbins (3); American Physical Society: H. A. Bumstead (i),. 

 William Duane (2), Irving Langmuir (2), Ernest Merritt (3), 

 R. A. Millikan (i), E. B. Wilson (3); American Mathematical Society: 

 E. W. Brown (i), L. E. Dickson (3), H. S. White (2) ; Members at large 

 (nominated by the Division): J. S. Ames (2), L. A. Bauer (3), Wil- 

 liam Bowie (2), Henry Crew (i), C. F. Marvin (i), Max Mason 

 (3), M. I. Pupin (i), S. W. Stratton (2), A. Trowbridge (3). 



division of engineering 



Chairman: Henry M. Howe; Vice-Chairman: Galen H. Clev- 

 Enger ; American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Arthur M. Greene 

 (3), W. F. M. Goss (i), D. S. Jacobus (2); American Institute of Elec- 

 trical Engineers: Comfort A. Adams (2), F. B. Jewett (3), W. R. 

 Whitney (i); American Institute of Mining Engineers: HennEN 

 Jennings (2), Philip N. Moore (i), Joseph W. Richards (3); Ameri- 

 can Society of Civil Engineers: Anson Marston (3), H. H. Porter 

 (i), George S. Webster (2); American Society for Testing Materials: 

 A. A. Stevenson (i); American Society of Illuminating Engineers: 

 Edward P. Hyde (2); Western Society of Engineers: Arthur N. 

 Talbot (3) ; Society of Automotive Engineers: Charles F. Kettering 

 (i); Members at large: Henry M. Howe (i), Galen H. Clevenger 

 (2), Edward Dean Adams (3), John J. Carty (2), Gang Dunn (2), 

 Van H. Manning (2), Charles F. Rand (i), E. G. Spilsbury (i), 

 Bradley Stoughton (3), S. W. Stratton (3), Ambrose Swasey (i), 

 William R. Walker (3). 



division of chemistry and chemical technology 



Chairman: W. D. Bancroft; Vice Chairman: Julius Stieglitz; 

 American Chemical Society: C. L. Alsberg (i), W. D. Bancroft (i), 

 C. G. Derick (i), J. M. Francis (3), E. C. Franklin (2), W. F. Hille- 

 brand (3), John Johnston (2), Julius Stieglitz (3), J. E. Teeple 

 (2); American Electrochemical Society: Colin G. Fink (3); American 



