SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The Chemical Society of Washington has secured permission from 

 Maj. Gen. WilHam L. Sibert for its members to visit the government 

 gas plant at Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood, Maryland, on a Saturday 

 about the middle of October. Others in the city who are interested 

 will be welcome. The chemists of Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Balti- 

 more will also visit the plant on the same day. Details of the arrange- 

 ments will be announced later. 



Word has been received that Messrs. AllEn, FennER, and ZiES, of 

 the Geophysical Laboratory's party in Alaska, have arrived safely at 

 Kodiak with collections of gases and emanations from the fumaroles 

 of the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. This is the first news of 

 the party since the National Geographic Society's expedition entered 

 the Valley in June. 



Mr. Robert Anderson, a petroleum geologist formerly on the U. S. 

 Geological vSurvey, has returned from Stockholm, Sweden, where he 

 represented the Shipping Board for the past 6 months, and is about 

 to leave for London where he will have charge of geologic investigations 

 for Pearson and Sons. 



Mr. George H. Ashley resigned from the U. S. Geological Survey 

 on September i, having been appointed State Geologist of Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Dr. Arthur F. Buddington of Brown University, recently in Wash- 

 ington with the Chemical Warfare Service, has joined the staff of the 

 Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Miss Eleonora F. Bliss, associate geologist on the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, is on leave of absence and is visiting her father. General Tas- 

 KER H. Buss, in Paris. 



Messrs. L. C. Graton, Frank A. Herald, and J. H. Hance, formerly 

 geologists in the U. S. Geological Survey, are now engaged in expert 

 work in the income tax section of the Internal Revenue Division of the 

 Treasury Department. 



Mr. H. E. Haring, recently in the Inspection Division of the Ord- 

 nance Department, has joined the staff of the Bureau of Standards, 

 where he will be engaged in electrochemical research. 



Prof. A. S. Hitchcock, systematic agrostologist in the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, left New York for British Guiana in September. He 

 expects to study the grasses of that country, and will return in about 

 four months. The work is being done in cooperation with the New 

 York Botanical Garden and the Gray Herbarium. 



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