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  JOURNAL 
  Olf 
  THE 
  WASHINGTON 
  ACADEMY 
  OF 
  SCIENCES 
  VOL. 
  12, 
  NO. 
  2 
  

  

  The 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Standards 
  announces 
  that 
  a 
  considerable 
  improvement 
  has 
  

   been 
  noted 
  in 
  the 
  quaHty 
  of 
  American 
  analytical 
  weights. 
  A 
  number 
  of 
  sets 
  

   have 
  been 
  received 
  recently 
  in 
  which 
  every 
  weight 
  was 
  within 
  the 
  prescribed 
  

   tolerances, 
  while 
  four 
  recent 
  sets 
  of 
  foreign 
  weights 
  showed 
  20 
  to 
  32 
  per 
  cent 
  

   of 
  the 
  weights 
  outside 
  the 
  tolerances. 
  

  

  A 
  dinner 
  was 
  given 
  at 
  the 
  Cosmos 
  Club 
  on 
  Friday 
  night, 
  December 
  16, 
  by 
  

   the 
  officers 
  of 
  the 
  Academy 
  and 
  the 
  Chemical 
  Society 
  in 
  honor 
  of 
  Prof. 
  

   Jacques 
  Cavalier, 
  recteur 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Toulouse 
  and 
  Exchange 
  

   Professor 
  at 
  a 
  group 
  of 
  American 
  universities. 
  The 
  dinner 
  followed 
  a 
  lecture 
  

   by 
  Prof. 
  Cavalier 
  at 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Standards 
  in 
  the 
  afternoon, 
  on 
  Les 
  in- 
  

   dustries 
  chimiques 
  en 
  France 
  pendant 
  la 
  Guerre. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Barton 
  W. 
  EvErmann, 
  at 
  one 
  time 
  with 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Fish 
  Commission 
  

   in 
  Washington, 
  and 
  a 
  former 
  editor 
  of 
  the 
  Proceedings 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  Journal 
  of 
  the 
  

   Academy, 
  has 
  been 
  appointed 
  director 
  of 
  the 
  new 
  Steinhart 
  Aquarium 
  of 
  the 
  

   California 
  Academy 
  of 
  Sciences 
  at 
  San 
  Francisco, 
  California. 
  

  

  A 
  course 
  of 
  ten 
  lectures 
  on 
  applied 
  anthropology 
  is 
  being 
  given 
  by 
  Dr. 
  

   Ales 
  Hrdlicka, 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Museum, 
  under 
  the 
  joint 
  auspices 
  of 
  the 
  

   Educational 
  Department 
  of 
  the 
  Young 
  Men's 
  Christian 
  Association 
  and 
  the 
  

   Institute 
  of 
  Vocational 
  Research 
  of 
  Washington. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  W. 
  J. 
  Humphreys 
  of 
  the 
  Weather 
  Bureau 
  lectured 
  before 
  the 
  Physics 
  

   Club 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Standards 
  on 
  November 
  28, 
  on 
  The 
  temperature 
  and 
  

   other 
  conditions 
  of 
  the 
  free 
  air. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Franz 
  August 
  Richard 
  Jung, 
  a 
  practicing 
  physician 
  in 
  Washington, 
  

   and 
  a 
  resident 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Academy 
  since 
  1902, 
  died 
  at 
  his 
  home 
  at 
  1868 
  

   Columbia 
  Road 
  on 
  December 
  16, 
  1921, 
  in 
  his 
  fifty-third 
  year. 
  Dr. 
  Jung 
  was 
  

   born 
  in 
  Thuringia, 
  Germany, 
  October 
  9, 
  1869. 
  He 
  came 
  to 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  

   in 
  1896, 
  and 
  took 
  up 
  the 
  practice 
  of 
  his 
  profession 
  in 
  Washington 
  in 
  collabora- 
  

   tion 
  with 
  his 
  wife. 
  Dr. 
  SoEiE 
  A. 
  Nordhoff-Jung. 
  They 
  were 
  in 
  Munich 
  

   when 
  the 
  War 
  began 
  in 
  1914, 
  and 
  opened 
  there 
  an 
  American 
  Red 
  Cross 
  

   Hospital, 
  which 
  was 
  closed 
  in 
  1917 
  when 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  entered 
  the 
  War. 
  

   Dr. 
  Jung 
  was 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Academy 
  and 
  the 
  Medical 
  Society, 
  and 
  was 
  a 
  

   frequent 
  contributor 
  to 
  the 
  medical 
  journals, 
  especially 
  on 
  subjects 
  related 
  to 
  

   digestion 
  and 
  assimilation. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  S. 
  Kruse, 
  associate 
  electrical 
  engineer 
  at 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Standards, 
  

   who 
  has 
  been 
  engaged 
  in 
  radio 
  development 
  work 
  at 
  the 
  Bureau, 
  has 
  been 
  

   granted 
  a 
  year's 
  leave 
  of 
  absence 
  and 
  has 
  accepted 
  a 
  position 
  with 
  the 
  Ham- 
  

   mond 
  Radio 
  Research 
  Corporation, 
  Gloucester, 
  Massachusetts. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  A. 
  A. 
  Stevenson, 
  chairman 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Engineering 
  Standards 
  

   Committee, 
  spoke 
  before 
  the 
  Washington 
  Section 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Society 
  

   of 
  Mechanical 
  Engineers 
  on 
  December 
  9 
  on 
  The 
  significance 
  of 
  standardization 
  

   to 
  industry 
  and 
  the 
  Federal 
  Government. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Raymond 
  W. 
  Woodward 
  has 
  resigned 
  as 
  physicist 
  and 
  chief 
  of 
  the 
  sec- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  mechanical 
  metallurgy 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Standards, 
  to 
  becomec 
  hief 
  met- 
  

   allurgist 
  for 
  the 
  Whitney 
  Manufacturing 
  Company 
  of 
  Hartford, 
  Connecticut. 
  

  

  