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  JOURNAL 
  OP 
  THE 
  WASHINGTON 
  ACADEMY 
  OP 
  SCIENCES 
  VOL. 
  12, 
  NO. 
  14 
  

  

  G. 
  W. 
  ViNAL, 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Standards; 
  Dr. 
  W. 
  P. 
  Woodring, 
  Geological 
  

   Survey. 
  

  

  A. 
  E. 
  Fath 
  has 
  taken 
  furlough 
  from 
  the 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  to 
  do 
  private 
  

   geologic 
  work 
  in 
  foreign 
  countries. 
  

  

  Prof. 
  W. 
  H. 
  Holmes 
  and 
  Dr. 
  Ales 
  Hrdlicka 
  have 
  been 
  elected 
  Honorary 
  

   Associates 
  of 
  the 
  Sociedad 
  Cubana 
  de 
  Historia 
  Natural 
  "Felipe 
  Poey" 
  of 
  

   Habana, 
  Cuba. 
  

  

  Charles 
  M. 
  Hoy, 
  who 
  for 
  the 
  past 
  three 
  years 
  has 
  been 
  collecting 
  natural 
  

   history 
  specimens 
  in 
  Australia 
  and 
  Tasmania 
  for 
  Dr. 
  W. 
  L. 
  Abbott, 
  has 
  

   returned 
  to 
  Washington. 
  Mr. 
  Hoy 
  secured 
  a 
  very 
  fine 
  collection 
  of 
  both 
  

   birds 
  and 
  mammals, 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  them 
  being 
  new 
  to 
  the 
  collection. 
  

  

  Drs. 
  Walter 
  Hough 
  and 
  Ales 
  Hrdlicka 
  have 
  been 
  appointed 
  delegates 
  

   from 
  the 
  Institution 
  to 
  the 
  International 
  Congress 
  of 
  Americanists, 
  to 
  be 
  

   held 
  in 
  Rio 
  de 
  Janeiro, 
  the 
  latter 
  part 
  of 
  August. 
  They 
  will 
  also 
  represent 
  

   the 
  Institution 
  at 
  the 
  International 
  Congress 
  on 
  America's 
  History, 
  which 
  

   meets 
  at 
  the 
  same 
  place 
  on 
  September 
  7. 
  

  

  Neil 
  M. 
  Judd, 
  curator 
  of 
  American 
  Archeology, 
  who 
  is 
  conducting 
  archeo- 
  

   logical 
  excavations 
  at 
  Pueblo 
  Bonito, 
  New 
  Mexico, 
  for 
  the 
  National 
  Geo- 
  

   graphic 
  Society, 
  arrived 
  in 
  the 
  field 
  May 
  3 
  and 
  assembled 
  his 
  men 
  and 
  equip- 
  

   ment. 
  The 
  work 
  of 
  excavation 
  began 
  May 
  15, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Judd 
  holds 
  great 
  

   expectations 
  of 
  valuable 
  results 
  from 
  this 
  season's 
  work. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Dorse 
  Y 
  A. 
  Lyon, 
  chief 
  metallurgist 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Mines, 
  has 
  

   received 
  the 
  degree 
  of 
  Doctor 
  of 
  Science 
  from 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Utah 
  in 
  

   recognition 
  of 
  his 
  contributions 
  to 
  metallurgical 
  research. 
  

  

  G. 
  R. 
  Mansfield 
  has 
  been 
  appointed 
  chief 
  of 
  the 
  section 
  of 
  non-metallif- 
  

   erous 
  deposits 
  in 
  the 
  Geologic 
  Branch 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geological 
  Survey. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Charles 
  L. 
  Parsons 
  sailed 
  from 
  New 
  York 
  on 
  June 
  13 
  to 
  attend 
  the 
  

   meeting 
  of 
  the 
  International 
  Union 
  of 
  Pure 
  and 
  Applied 
  Chemistry 
  at 
  Lyons, 
  

   France, 
  June 
  27- 
  July 
  7. 
  Dr. 
  Parsons 
  represents 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  as 
  

   vice-president 
  of 
  the 
  Union. 
  Other 
  delegates 
  were 
  Edward 
  Bartow, 
  E. 
  S. 
  

   Chapin, 
  R. 
  B. 
  Moore 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Mines, 
  E. 
  W. 
  Washburn 
  of 
  the 
  

   National 
  Research 
  Council, 
  and 
  H. 
  S. 
  Washington 
  of 
  the 
  Geophysical 
  

   Laboratory. 
  

  

  Word 
  just 
  received 
  from 
  the 
  Canal 
  Zone 
  announces 
  the 
  safe 
  arrival 
  there 
  

   of 
  Dr. 
  F. 
  W. 
  PennELL, 
  Curator 
  of 
  Botany 
  in 
  the 
  Academy 
  of 
  Natural 
  Sciences, 
  

   Philadelphia, 
  who, 
  accompanied 
  by 
  Mrs. 
  PennELL 
  and 
  by 
  Mr. 
  E. 
  P. 
  Killip 
  

   of 
  the 
  National 
  Museum, 
  is 
  en 
  route 
  to 
  Colombia, 
  where 
  about 
  six 
  months 
  

   will 
  be 
  spent 
  in 
  botanical 
  exploration 
  in 
  the 
  central 
  and 
  western 
  cordillera. 
  

   From 
  headquarters 
  at 
  Cali 
  work 
  will 
  extend 
  northward 
  to 
  Medellin 
  and 
  south- 
  

   ward 
  toward 
  the 
  Ecuadorean 
  border. 
  The 
  exploration 
  should 
  be 
  successful 
  

   not 
  only 
  in 
  assembling 
  a 
  large 
  amount 
  of 
  topotypic 
  material 
  but 
  also 
  as 
  afford- 
  

   ing 
  an 
  opportunity 
  of 
  collecting 
  in 
  new 
  and 
  interesting 
  territory, 
  western 
  

   Colombia 
  being 
  as 
  a 
  whole 
  little 
  known 
  botanically. 
  In 
  this 
  exploration 
  the 
  

   New 
  York 
  Botanical 
  Garden 
  and 
  the 
  Gray 
  Herbarium 
  are 
  cooperating 
  with 
  

   the 
  two 
  institutions 
  mentioned. 
  

  

  William 
  vSchaus 
  was 
  elected, 
  on 
  April 
  5, 
  an 
  honorary 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  

   Sociedade 
  Entomologica 
  do 
  Brazil 
  in 
  recognition 
  of 
  his 
  extensive 
  work 
  on 
  

   the 
  butterflies 
  and 
  moths 
  of 
  Brazil. 
  

  

  Atherton 
  Seidell 
  of 
  the 
  Hygienic 
  Laboratory, 
  U. 
  S. 
  Public 
  Health 
  Ser- 
  

   vice, 
  is 
  spending 
  several 
  months 
  in 
  Europe 
  with 
  the 
  special 
  purpose 
  of 
  compar- 
  

   ing 
  American 
  and 
  European 
  methods 
  and 
  progress 
  in 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  vitamines. 
  

  

  