360 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Mr. C. T. Greene, of the Bureau of Entomology, has recently been 

 made honorary assistant custodian of Diptera in the Division of In- 

 sects of the National Museum and is assisting Dr. Aldrich in the ar- 

 rangement of the Museum's collection of Diptera. 



Major F. R. Moulton, formerly of the Ordnance Department, U. 

 S. A., received his discharge from the Army and returned to the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago in April. 



Captain Edwin H. Pagenhart, U. S. R. (Engineers), has received 

 his discharge from the Army and has returned to the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey. 



Mr. E. A. vSchwarz and Mr. H. S. Barber have recently returned 

 from a trip to the Florida Everglades, where they collected many in- 

 sects, which will be added to the collections of the National Museum. 

 One very interesting Scolytid beetle belonging to a tropical genus has 

 already been described by Mr. Schwarz. 



Major Samuel A. Tucker, of the Chemical Warfare Service, and 

 Washington representative of the newly-organized Chemical Founda- 

 tion which took over enemy-owned patents during the war, closed the 

 Washington office in May and has returned to New York. 



Mr. R. J. Wig, formerly of the Bureau of Standards, and chief en- 

 gineer of the concrete-ship department of the Emergency Fleet Corpora- 

 tion during the war, has resigned from the Fleet Corporation to go into 

 private engineering work at San Diego, California. 



