﻿JUNE 
  4, 
  1922 
  SCIENTIFIC 
  NOTES 
  AND 
  NEWS 
  277 
  

  

  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  auditorium 
  on 
  the 
  first 
  two 
  days 
  of 
  the 
  meeting. 
  Among 
  the 
  

   members 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  staff 
  who 
  read 
  papers 
  were 
  Secretary 
  CD. 
  Wal- 
  

   coTT, 
  The 
  new 
  building 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Academy 
  and 
  National 
  Research 
  

   Council; 
  Dr. 
  L. 
  O. 
  Howard, 
  A 
  side 
  effect 
  from 
  the 
  importation 
  of 
  parasites 
  of 
  

   injurious 
  insects; 
  Dr. 
  AlES 
  Hrdlicka, 
  Stature 
  amd 
  head 
  form 
  in 
  Americans 
  

   of 
  old 
  families 
  ; 
  Austin 
  H. 
  Clark, 
  Animal 
  evolution; 
  Dr. 
  Abbot, 
  Mr. 
  Fowle, 
  

   and 
  Mr. 
  Aldrich, 
  The 
  larger 
  results 
  of 
  20 
  years 
  of 
  solar 
  radiation 
  observations. 
  

   The 
  third 
  International 
  Conference 
  on 
  Chemistry 
  will 
  be 
  held 
  at 
  Lyon, 
  

   France, 
  June 
  27- 
  July 
  2, 
  1922, 
  under 
  the 
  direction 
  of 
  the 
  Federation 
  Nationale 
  

   des 
  Associations 
  de 
  Chimie 
  de 
  France. 
  It 
  will 
  be 
  followed 
  by 
  the 
  second 
  con- 
  

   gress 
  of 
  industrial 
  chemistry, 
  organized 
  by 
  the 
  Societe 
  de 
  Chimie 
  Tndus- 
  

   trielle, 
  at 
  Marseilles 
  from 
  July 
  2 
  to 
  7. 
  

  

  The 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  has 
  recently 
  made 
  arrangements 
  for 
  the 
  resump- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  exchange 
  relations 
  with 
  Roumania, 
  the 
  Institutal 
  Meteorologic 
  Cen- 
  

   tral, 
  Ministerul 
  Agriculturei, 
  Bukharest, 
  having 
  offered 
  to 
  act 
  ar 
  the 
  Rouman- 
  

   ian 
  Agency. 
  The 
  Institution 
  is 
  now 
  sending 
  exchange 
  consignments 
  to 
  all 
  

   foreign 
  countries 
  except 
  Jugoslavia, 
  Russia, 
  and 
  Turkey. 
  The 
  following 
  

   newly 
  established 
  governments 
  are 
  included 
  among 
  these 
  to 
  which 
  shipments 
  

   are 
  being 
  forwarded: 
  Czechoslovakia, 
  Esthonia. 
  Finland, 
  Latvia, 
  Lithuania, 
  

   Poland. 
  

  

  The 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum 
  has 
  recently 
  secured 
  by 
  purchase, 
  

   through 
  the 
  cooperation 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Department 
  of 
  Agriculture, 
  

   the 
  large 
  private 
  herbarium 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Otto 
  Buchtien, 
  formerly 
  Director 
  of 
  the 
  

   Museo 
  Nacional, 
  La 
  Paz, 
  Bolivia, 
  built 
  up 
  by 
  him 
  through 
  many 
  years 
  of 
  

   botanical 
  exploration 
  in 
  South 
  America 
  and 
  through 
  exchanges 
  with 
  insti- 
  

   tutions 
  in 
  many 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  world. 
  The 
  herbarium 
  consists 
  of 
  approxi- 
  

   mately 
  45,000 
  specimens, 
  and 
  is 
  notable 
  for 
  its 
  large 
  proportion 
  of 
  tropical 
  

   American 
  species, 
  particularly 
  of 
  the 
  floras 
  of 
  Bolivia, 
  Chile, 
  Argentina, 
  and 
  

   Paraguay. 
  

  

  Among 
  the 
  delegates 
  to 
  the 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  International 
  Geophysical 
  Union 
  

   at 
  Rome 
  are 
  Drs. 
  L. 
  A. 
  Bauer, 
  Department 
  of 
  Terrestrial 
  Magnetism, 
  

   Carnegie 
  Institution 
  of 
  Washington; 
  Henry 
  S. 
  Washington, 
  Geophysical 
  

   Laboratory, 
  Carnegie 
  Institution 
  of 
  Washington; 
  William 
  Bowie, 
  Coast 
  

   and 
  Geodetic 
  Survey; 
  G. 
  W. 
  LittlEhalES, 
  Hydrographic 
  Observatory; 
  

   and 
  H. 
  H. 
  Kimball, 
  Weather 
  Bureau. 
  

  

  The 
  Alaskan 
  Mineral 
  Resources 
  Division 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  

   has 
  been 
  raised 
  to 
  a 
  Branch, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  H. 
  Brooks 
  is 
  now 
  designated 
  the 
  

   Chief 
  Alaskan 
  Geologist. 
  

  

  A 
  shipment 
  of 
  material 
  collected 
  in 
  the 
  Province 
  of 
  Fukien, 
  southeastern 
  

   China, 
  has 
  recently 
  been 
  received 
  from 
  Arthur 
  deC. 
  Sowerby. 
  It 
  contains 
  

   many 
  birds 
  and 
  animals 
  not 
  previously 
  represented 
  in 
  the 
  National 
  Museum. 
  

   This 
  is 
  the 
  first 
  shipment 
  received 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Sowerby 
  from 
  southeastern 
  

   China, 
  a 
  section 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  from 
  which 
  the 
  Museum 
  has 
  very 
  little 
  ma- 
  

   terial. 
  Through 
  Mr. 
  Sowerby' 
  s 
  previous 
  work 
  the 
  mammal 
  fauna 
  from 
  

   northern 
  China 
  is 
  now 
  very 
  well 
  represented 
  in 
  the 
  Museum, 
  making 
  this 
  

   South 
  China 
  material 
  of 
  special 
  interest. 
  

  

  Eighteen 
  of 
  the 
  ornithologists 
  of 
  Washington 
  met 
  at 
  the 
  home 
  of 
  B. 
  H. 
  

   Swales 
  on 
  March 
  14, 
  1922, 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  organizing 
  an 
  ornithological 
  

   club. 
  As 
  it 
  was 
  the 
  intention 
  at 
  the 
  start 
  to 
  meet 
  at 
  members' 
  homes 
  for 
  

   informal 
  social 
  intercourse, 
  the 
  number 
  had 
  necessarily 
  to 
  be 
  restricted, 
  and 
  

   twenty-five 
  was 
  fixed 
  as 
  the 
  limit 
  and 
  only 
  men 
  primarily 
  interested 
  in 
  birds 
  

   considered. 
  Dr. 
  T. 
  S. 
  Palmer 
  was 
  named 
  temporary 
  chairman 
  and 
  upon 
  

  

  