﻿APR. 
  4, 
  1922 
  SCIENTIFIC 
  NOTES 
  AND 
  NEWS 
  193 
  

  

  Indies, 
  where 
  he 
  was 
  investigating 
  the 
  pink 
  boel 
  worm 
  of 
  cotton 
  for 
  the 
  Bureau 
  

   of 
  Entomolog^^ 
  

  

  IMr. 
  Fuller 
  Clarkson 
  resigned 
  from 
  the 
  Fixed 
  Nitrogen 
  Research 
  Lab- 
  

   oratory 
  December 
  1, 
  1921, 
  to 
  accept 
  a 
  position 
  in 
  the 
  research 
  laboratories 
  

   of 
  the 
  Procter 
  and 
  Gamble 
  Company, 
  Cincinnati, 
  Ohio. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  A. 
  S. 
  Hitchcock, 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Plant 
  Industry, 
  returned 
  on 
  Decem- 
  

   ber 
  23 
  from 
  a 
  trip 
  to 
  the 
  Orient 
  where 
  he 
  went 
  to 
  study 
  the 
  grasses, 
  especially 
  

   the 
  bamboos. 
  He 
  visited 
  the 
  Philippines, 
  Japan, 
  central 
  and 
  south 
  China, 
  

   including 
  the 
  island 
  of 
  Hainan, 
  and 
  Indo-China. 
  

  

  Representative 
  Albert 
  Johnson 
  of 
  Washington 
  was 
  appointed 
  a 
  regent 
  

   of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  on 
  January 
  4 
  by 
  Speaker 
  Gillett 
  of 
  the 
  House, 
  

   and 
  Representatives 
  Lemmel 
  Padgett 
  and 
  Frank 
  L. 
  GrEENe 
  were 
  re- 
  

   appointed 
  as 
  regents. 
  

  

  Adolf 
  Tonduz, 
  the 
  well-known 
  botanical 
  collector 
  in 
  Central 
  America, 
  

   died 
  at 
  Guatemala 
  City, 
  Guatemala, 
  in 
  the 
  latter 
  part 
  of 
  1921. 
  Mr. 
  Tonduz 
  

   was 
  a 
  native 
  of 
  Switzerland, 
  who 
  received 
  his 
  early 
  botanical 
  training 
  under 
  

   Alphonse 
  De 
  Candolle, 
  and 
  emigrated 
  to 
  Costa 
  Rica 
  in 
  early 
  manhood. 
  He 
  

   was 
  for 
  many 
  years 
  connected 
  with 
  the 
  Instituto 
  Fisico-Geografico 
  of 
  San 
  

   Jose, 
  of 
  which 
  H. 
  Pittier 
  was 
  director, 
  and 
  was 
  associated 
  with 
  Mr. 
  Pittier 
  

   in 
  a 
  natural 
  history 
  survey 
  of 
  Costa 
  Rica. 
  His 
  specimens 
  are 
  well 
  represented 
  

   in 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Herbarium 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  other 
  large 
  botanical 
  establish- 
  

   ments 
  of 
  the 
  world. 
  

  

  