536 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



No action was taken on the invitation of the French Government' 

 to send delegates to a meteorological conference in Paris on September 

 30, and the United States was, therefore, not officially represented. 



NOTES 



The proposed American Meteorological Society, formal organiza- 

 tion of which is suggested for action in connection with the next meet- 

 ing of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is 

 expected to have a large Washington membership, drawn from the 

 staff of the Weather Bureau and from among the meteorologists of the 

 Army and Navy. It is suggested that the Monthly Weather Review 

 be made the medium for publishing meteorological and climatological 

 articles, while a monthly leaflet published by the Society would con- 

 tain news, announcements, notes, and queries. 



Mr. L. B. Aldrich of the Astrophysical Observatory reports from the 

 Smithsonian Station on Mt. Wilson, California, the successful opera- 

 tion of a new instrument for measuring the loss of heat of the earth to 

 space at night. 



Prof. AivFRED F. Barker, Professor of Textile Industries at the 

 University of Leeds, England, visited Washington in September to 

 study the work being done in the Division of Textiles of the National 

 Museum. 



Dr. C. Bonne and his wife, Mrs. C. Bonne -Wepster, of Surinam 

 (Dutch Guiana), students of South American mosquitoes, are spending 

 two months at the National Museum in the study of the mosquito 

 collection. 



Mr. R. Y. Ferner, formerly with the Bureau of Standards, has re- 

 signed his position as assistant purchasing officer in the Emergency 

 Fleet Corporation, where he had charge of the purchase of navigational 

 outfits, and has opened an office in the Maryland Building, Washington, 

 for the supplying of technical information and service to manufacturers 

 and others. 



Brig. Gen. Charles F. Lee, of the British Royal Air Force, who 

 lectured before the Academy in March, 191 8, on "Aviation and the 

 War," was killed in an aeroplane accident in England on September 2. 



Mr. Paul C. Standley, of the Division of Plants, U. S. National 

 Museum, has returned from a collecting trip through Glacier National 

 Park, Montana. Data were secured for a handbook of the plants of 

 the Park, to be issued by the National Park Service for the use of tour- 

 ists. About four thousand herbarium specimens were collected. 



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