SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 647 



NOTES 



The property at 1201 Sixteenth Street, now leased and occupied by 

 the National Research Council, has been purchased by the National 

 Educational Association. 



The Governor of the Territory of Hawaii has requested the Geological 

 Survey to make a geological examination of the territory with reference 

 to its ground-water resources. Field work will probably be started in 

 January by O. E. Meinzer, W. O. Clark, and L. F. Noble. 



The Coast and Geodetic steamer Hydrographer, while surveying the 

 Florida Reefs, was caught in the hurricane of September 9. The cables 

 fouled those of the Tuscarora, and, in order to save both vessels, the 

 officers and men of the Hydrographer had to be transferred to the 

 Tuscarora; the cables were then slipped by mate Straube and the 

 Hydrographer was blown across the channel on to the shoals. The 

 vessel was floated later and hauled out at Key West for examination. 

 The Secretary of Commerce has sent a letter to Commander G. C. 

 MaTTIson and the men of the Hydrographer, commending their skill in 

 salvaging the vessel without outside assistance. 



Dr. Horace G. Byers, formerly of the University of Washington, 

 who was recently appointed chemist in charge of soil investigations 

 in the Bureau of Soils, has accepted the position of head of the depart- 

 ment of chemistry at Cooper Union Institute, New York City. 



Mr. W. J. Cotton has resigned from the Color Laboratory of the 

 Bureau of Chemistry to accept a position with the National Aniline 

 and Chemical Company, of Buffalo, New York. 



Lieutenant Colonel Coert DuBois, District Forester at San Fran- 

 cisco, California, has resigned from the U. S. Forest Service and entered 

 the Consular Service. Colonel DuBois had been a member of the 

 Forest Service since 1900. 



Mr. Chester G. Gilbert resigned from the Smithsonian Institution 

 on October i, to accept a position on the staff of Arthur D. Little, 

 Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts. This organization has opened a 

 Washington office in the Munsey Building, with Mr. Gilbert in charge. 



Mr. F. W. Glading, of the Bureau of Standards, has resigned to 

 become Industrial Engineer for the Baldwin Locomotive Works, at 

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka has been made an honorary member of the 

 Association Liegois pour I'fitude et I'Enseignment des Sciences Anthro- 

 pologiques, at Li^ge, Belgium. 



Dr. GrinnELL Jones, chemist to the Tariff Commission, has re- 

 turned to Harvard University but is still retained in an advisory capacity 

 by the Commission. 



