SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Arthur L. Day, Director of the Geophysical Laboratory, Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington, gave the public lecture at the annual 

 meeting of the trustees of the Institution in Washington, on December 

 II, 191 9. The subject of the lecture was "The War Work of the 

 Geophysical Laboratory." 



Rear Admiral James Milton Flint, U. S. N. (Retired), a charter 

 member of the Academy, died at his home in Washington on November 

 21, 19 19, in his eighty-second year. Admiral Flint was born at Hills- 

 borough, New Hampshire, February 7, 1838. He entered the United 

 States Navy as assistant surgeon in 1862, and became medical director 

 of the Navy in 1897, retiring from the service in 1900. During his ser- 

 vice with the Navy he was connected at various periods with the U. S. 

 Fish Commission (i 884-1 887), and with the Smithsonian Institution 

 and National Museum, as curator of the Division of Medicine. 



Mr. William M. Hall, assistant forester in the Forest Service, re- 

 signed on November 24 after twenty years of forestry work. He has 

 become a partner in an enterprise established in Chicago to handle land 

 exchanges. 



Major Henry LEE Higginson, one of the trustees of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, died at Boston, Massachusetts, on November 

 14, 1919, in his eighty-fifth year. 



Mr. C. H. KiDWELL has been appointed chief of the Quality-of- Water 

 Division of the Water Resources Branch, U. S. Geological Survey, as 

 successor to Mr. A. A. Chambers, resigned. 



Dr. Otto Klotz, Director of the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, 

 has been appointed the representative of Canada on the "Committee 

 on Magnetic Surveys, Charts and Secular Variation" of the International 

 Geodetic and Geophysical Union, recently formed at Brussels. 



Mr. E. C. McKelvy, of the Chemical Division of the Bureau of 

 Standards, died at Emergency Hospital on November 29, 19 19, in his 

 thirty-sixth year. His death resulted from burns received on the after- 

 noon of November 28, from an explosion of amm.onia-condensing ap- 

 paratus containing petroleum ether cooled by liquid air. Mr. McKelvy 

 was born at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, May 9, 1884. Lie joined the staff 

 of the Bureau in July, 1907, and was chief of the physico-chemical 

 section of the Chemistry Division at the time of his death. Llis work 

 for several years past had been on the physical constants of ammonia 

 and other substances used in commercial refrigeration. He was a 

 member of the Academy and one of the associate editors of its Journal; 

 had been secretary of the Chemical Society since 1915; and was a 

 member of the Philosophical vSociety. 



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