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  JOURNAL 
  OF 
  THE 
  WASHINGTON 
  ACADEMY 
  OF 
  SCIENCES 
  VOL. 
  12, 
  NO. 
  8 
  

  

  visited 
  several 
  sites 
  of 
  current 
  investigation 
  during 
  his 
  extensive 
  journeys 
  

   throughout 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  and 
  is 
  now 
  on 
  his 
  way 
  back 
  to 
  France. 
  

  

  F. 
  J. 
  Katz, 
  who 
  has 
  been 
  with 
  the 
  Census 
  Bureau 
  for 
  several 
  years, 
  has 
  

   returned 
  to 
  the 
  Geological 
  vSurvey 
  and 
  will 
  be 
  assistant 
  chief 
  of 
  the 
  Mineral 
  

   Resources 
  Section. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  A. 
  S. 
  Le 
  vSouef, 
  director 
  of 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Gardens 
  at 
  vSydney, 
  Australia, 
  

   was 
  a 
  recent 
  visitor 
  at 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Park. 
  Mr. 
  Le 
  Souef 
  took 
  to 
  Europe 
  

   from 
  Australia 
  the 
  first 
  shipment 
  of 
  live 
  animals 
  sent 
  abroad 
  by 
  the 
  new 
  

   Zoological 
  Control 
  Board 
  of 
  Australia, 
  which 
  now 
  has 
  complete 
  charge 
  of 
  the 
  

   exportation 
  of 
  Australian 
  animals. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  WiLiJAM 
  M. 
  Mann, 
  of 
  the 
  Division 
  of 
  Insects, 
  who 
  has 
  been 
  since 
  

   last 
  June 
  with 
  the 
  Mulford 
  Biological 
  Exploration 
  in 
  eastern 
  Bolivia 
  and 
  

   western 
  Brazil, 
  writes 
  from 
  Riberalta, 
  Bolivia, 
  under 
  date 
  of 
  January 
  12, 
  that 
  

   the 
  expedition 
  will 
  return 
  to 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  early 
  in 
  April. 
  Dr. 
  Rusby, 
  

   the 
  director, 
  has 
  recently 
  been 
  compelled 
  to 
  return 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  ill 
  health. 
  

   Dr. 
  Mann 
  is 
  now 
  in 
  charge 
  of 
  the 
  party. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Morton 
  P. 
  Porsild, 
  of 
  the 
  Danish 
  Arctic 
  Station, 
  Disko, 
  Greenland, 
  

   recently 
  spent 
  a 
  day 
  or 
  two 
  in 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  Alaskan 
  collections 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  

   Herbarium. 
  

  

  T. 
  W. 
  Vaughan 
  has 
  at 
  his 
  request 
  been 
  relieved 
  of 
  administrative 
  duties 
  as 
  

   Chief 
  of 
  the 
  Coastal 
  Plain 
  Section 
  in 
  the 
  Geological 
  vSurvey, 
  and 
  h. 
  W. 
  

   Stephenson 
  has 
  been 
  assigned 
  these 
  duties. 
  W. 
  P. 
  Woodring 
  has 
  been 
  

   appointed 
  Chief 
  of 
  the 
  Section 
  of 
  West 
  Indian 
  geologic 
  surveys 
  in 
  the 
  Coastal 
  

   Plain 
  Section. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Charles 
  W. 
  Waidner, 
  chief 
  physicist 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Standards, 
  

   died 
  on 
  March 
  10, 
  1922 
  at 
  his 
  home, 
  1748 
  Lanier 
  Place, 
  after 
  a 
  long 
  illness. 
  

   Dr. 
  Waidner 
  was 
  born 
  in 
  Baltimore, 
  Maryland, 
  on 
  March 
  6, 
  1873. 
  After 
  

   graduating 
  at 
  Johns 
  Hopkins 
  University 
  he 
  acted 
  as 
  instructor 
  both 
  there 
  and 
  

   at 
  Williams 
  College. 
  He 
  was 
  appointed 
  to 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Standards 
  in 
  1901 
  

   and 
  made 
  chief 
  physicist 
  in 
  1921 
  after 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  Dr. 
  E. 
  B. 
  Rosa. 
  Dr. 
  

   Waidner' 
  s 
  name 
  is 
  generally 
  identified 
  with 
  his 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  high 
  temperature 
  

   scale, 
  on 
  radiation 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  resistance 
  thermometer. 
  More 
  recently 
  the 
  

   other 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  temperature 
  scale 
  had 
  also 
  engaged 
  his 
  attention, 
  to 
  the 
  

   advantage 
  of 
  our 
  knowledge 
  of 
  refrigerating 
  processes. 
  During 
  the 
  war 
  he 
  

   had 
  charge 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau's 
  work 
  on 
  aviation 
  engines. 
  He 
  was 
  a 
  member 
  

   of 
  the 
  Academy 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  Philosophical 
  Society, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  of 
  many 
  national 
  

   and 
  international 
  scientific 
  bodies. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  T. 
  T. 
  Waterman, 
  lately 
  appointed 
  ethnologist 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Ameri- 
  

   can 
  Ethnology, 
  has 
  left 
  for 
  field-work 
  in 
  Alaska, 
  Oregon, 
  and 
  Washington. 
  

   He 
  will 
  first 
  proceed 
  to 
  the 
  Kasaan 
  National 
  Monument, 
  Alaska, 
  to 
  study 
  the 
  

   architecture, 
  totem 
  poles 
  and 
  other 
  objects 
  at 
  this 
  village 
  and 
  will 
  be 
  ac- 
  

   companied 
  by 
  a 
  half-breed 
  Haida, 
  related 
  by 
  marriage 
  to 
  Chief 
  Skoul. 
  It 
  is 
  

   expected 
  that 
  considerable 
  legendary 
  data 
  bearing 
  on 
  history 
  and 
  sociology 
  

   of 
  the 
  former 
  inhabitants 
  of 
  Kasaan 
  will 
  also 
  be 
  collected. 
  Should 
  the 
  results 
  

   justify 
  further 
  work 
  it 
  is 
  planned 
  to 
  continue 
  field-work 
  on 
  place 
  names 
  and 
  

   aboriginal 
  village 
  sites 
  of 
  Alaska 
  to 
  be 
  followed 
  later 
  by 
  work 
  on 
  stratigraphic 
  

   archeology 
  in 
  more 
  northern 
  latitudes 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  discover 
  if 
  possible 
  traces 
  

   of 
  the 
  oldest 
  Indians 
  in 
  this 
  supposed 
  prehistoric 
  gateway 
  of 
  the 
  migration 
  of 
  

   man 
  into 
  North 
  America. 
  

  

  