504 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the Smithsonian Institution, has been visit- 

 ing Camp Dix and Camp Devens for the purpose of classifying cer- 

 tain anthropometric measurements being made during the demobihza- 

 tion of the soldiers. 



Mr. Prevost Hubbard resigned in July from the Bureau of Public 

 Roads, U. S. Department of Agriculture, and is now chemical engineer 

 with the Asphalt Association, 15 Maiden Lane, New York City. 



Mr. Paul D. V. Manning, formerly chemist with the Nitrate Divi- 

 sion of the Ordnance Department, at the Fixed Nitrogen Research 

 Laboratory, American University, is now electrometallurgist with the 

 Chile Exploration Company of New York City. 



Mr. Louis N. Markovitz, who has been on leave of absence with 

 the Chemical Warfare Service at Nela Park, Cleveland, Ohio, has 

 returned to his work at the Insecticide Laboratory of the Bureau of 

 Chemistry. 



Dr. Charles L. Parsons, Chief Chemist of the Bureau of Mines, 

 has presented his resignation, to take effect November ist. He has en- 

 gaged offices for the American Chemical Society in the Mills Building 

 Annex. He will also do a limited amount of private consulting and 

 chemical engineering work. 



Mr. E. W. Shaw, geologist of the U. S. Geological Survey, who has 

 been cooperating with the Internal Revenue Office in determining the 

 income tax on oil and gas properties, is in Europe on a two months' 

 leave of absence doing consulting geologic work. 



Dr. H. Ten Kate, the well-known anthropologist, who has been a 

 resident of Japan for the past twelve years, visited Washington in 

 August. 



Prof. E. W. Washburn, recently acting chairman of the Division of 

 Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the National Research Council, 

 returned to the University of Illinois in September. 



Mr. L. M. WhitmorE, formerly in charge of the chemical work on 

 leather at the Bureau of Standards, resigned in August to accept a 

 position in the Process Department of Leas and McVitty, Inc., tanners 

 of sole leather, at Salem, Virginia. 



Mr. Charles W. Wright, a geologist formerly on the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey, who has been visiting in the United States for a month, 

 has returned to Sardinia and Rome, where he has offices as consulting 

 mining engineer. 



Dr. Ralph W. G. Wyckoff, of Cornell University, has joined the 

 staff of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution as 

 assistant physicist 



