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  JOURNAL 
  OF 
  THS 
  WASHINGTON 
  ACADEMY 
  OF 
  SCIENCES 
  VOL. 
  12, 
  NO. 
  1 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Paul 
  C. 
  vStandlEy 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Museum 
  left 
  Washington 
  early 
  

   in 
  December 
  for 
  a 
  botanical 
  collecting 
  trip 
  to 
  Central 
  America 
  under 
  the 
  

   auspices 
  of 
  the 
  Museum, 
  Harvard 
  University, 
  and 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  Botanical 
  

   Garden. 
  He 
  will 
  spend 
  several 
  months 
  in 
  Guatemala 
  and 
  Salvador. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  R. 
  W. 
  vStonE 
  has 
  been 
  appointed 
  assistant 
  state 
  geologist 
  of 
  Pennsyl- 
  

   vania 
  and 
  has 
  resigned 
  from 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geological 
  vSurvey, 
  the 
  resignation 
  

   to 
  be 
  in 
  effect 
  January 
  1. 
  His 
  headquarters 
  will 
  be 
  at 
  Harrisburg, 
  Pennsyl- 
  

   vania. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  George 
  I^. 
  StreETER, 
  director 
  of 
  the 
  Department 
  of 
  Embryology 
  

   of 
  the 
  Carnegie 
  Institution 
  of 
  Washington, 
  gave 
  an 
  illustrated 
  public 
  lecture 
  

   at 
  the 
  Institution 
  on 
  the 
  evening 
  of 
  November 
  22, 
  on 
  Recent 
  studies 
  on 
  the 
  

   ear 
  as 
  an 
  organ 
  determining 
  equilibrium. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  H. 
  U. 
  SvERDRUP, 
  physicist 
  of 
  the 
  Roald 
  Amundsen 
  Arctic 
  Expedition, 
  

   which 
  recently 
  completed 
  the 
  passage 
  by 
  water 
  north 
  of 
  Siberia, 
  is 
  spending 
  

   several 
  months 
  as 
  research 
  assistant 
  at 
  the 
  Department 
  of 
  Terrestrial 
  Mag- 
  

   netism, 
  Carnegie 
  Institution 
  of 
  Washington. 
  He 
  is 
  taking 
  part 
  in 
  reduction 
  

   of 
  magnetic 
  observations 
  already 
  taken 
  and 
  also 
  preparing 
  for 
  new 
  series 
  

   of 
  magnetic, 
  oceanographic, 
  meteorological 
  and 
  other 
  observations 
  to 
  be 
  

   taken 
  on 
  the 
  continued 
  expedition 
  across 
  the 
  north 
  Polar 
  Sea 
  to 
  be 
  begun 
  

   by 
  the 
  Amundsen 
  party 
  in 
  the 
  spring 
  of 
  1922. 
  

  

  Secretary 
  CD. 
  Walcott 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  has 
  been 
  elected 
  

   a 
  corresponding 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Societe 
  Geologique 
  de 
  Belgique, 
  of 
  Liege, 
  

   Belgium. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Chung 
  Yu 
  Wang, 
  consulting 
  mining 
  engineer 
  and 
  geologist, 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  

   the 
  technical 
  councilors 
  with 
  the 
  Chinese 
  delegation 
  to 
  the 
  Conference 
  on 
  

   Limitation 
  of 
  Armaments. 
  

  

  