﻿NOV. 
  19, 
  1922 
  SCIENTIFIC 
  NOTES 
  AND 
  NEWS 
  445 
  

  

  Manila 
  and 
  sailed 
  on 
  an 
  army 
  transport 
  November 
  15 
  for 
  home, 
  arriving 
  in 
  

   Washington 
  the 
  day 
  before 
  Christmas. 
  Large 
  collections 
  of 
  grasses 
  were 
  

   made 
  in 
  the 
  countries 
  visited 
  as 
  the 
  season 
  was 
  favorable 
  for 
  this 
  purpose. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  G. 
  N. 
  Collins 
  spoke 
  on 
  the 
  Toronto 
  Meeting 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Associ- 
  

   ation 
  for 
  the 
  Advancement 
  of 
  Science, 
  specially 
  dealing 
  with 
  the 
  papers 
  on 
  

   Genetics. 
  These 
  were 
  about 
  evenly 
  divided 
  between 
  the 
  botanists 
  and 
  zo- 
  

   ologists. 
  The 
  leading 
  number 
  of 
  papers 
  concerned 
  Drosophila, 
  while 
  the 
  

   papers 
  on 
  maize 
  ran 
  second 
  in 
  number. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  G. 
  R. 
  Lyman 
  spoke 
  of 
  the 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Pathologists 
  at 
  the 
  Toronto 
  

   Meeting, 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  plan 
  to 
  coordinate 
  the 
  various 
  biological 
  scientists 
  into 
  

   one 
  association 
  similar 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  Engineers 
  Society 
  and 
  the 
  Medical 
  

   Society. 
  Roy 
  G. 
  Pierce, 
  Recording 
  Secretary. 
  

  

  SCIENTIFIC 
  NOTES 
  AND 
  NEWS 
  

  

  The 
  educational 
  courses 
  at 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Standards 
  this 
  winter 
  include: 
  

   Harmonic 
  Series 
  Applied 
  to 
  Physical 
  Problems, 
  D. 
  R. 
  Harper, 
  3d; 
  Advanced 
  

   Organic 
  Chemistry, 
  L. 
  L. 
  vSteelE; 
  Physical 
  Metallurgy, 
  H. 
  S. 
  Rawdon. 
  

  

  John 
  L. 
  Baer, 
  acting 
  curator 
  of 
  American 
  Archeology, 
  National 
  

   Museum, 
  during 
  the 
  past 
  few 
  months, 
  is 
  in 
  Pennsylvania, 
  continuing 
  his 
  

   study 
  of 
  aboriginal 
  quarry 
  sites 
  in 
  the 
  Shenandoah 
  Valley. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Alexander 
  Graham 
  Bell, 
  a 
  resident 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Academy, 
  died 
  

   at 
  his 
  summer 
  home 
  in 
  Nova 
  Scotia 
  on 
  August 
  2, 
  1922, 
  in 
  his 
  seventy-sixth 
  

   year. 
  Dr. 
  Bell 
  was 
  bom 
  at 
  Edinburgh, 
  Scotland, 
  on 
  March 
  3, 
  1847. 
  His 
  

   invention 
  of 
  the 
  telephone 
  stands 
  as 
  his 
  most 
  notable 
  scientific 
  achievement, 
  

   but 
  he 
  carried 
  on 
  research 
  in 
  various 
  subjects, 
  as 
  for 
  example, 
  animal 
  breeding, 
  

   relief 
  of 
  deafness, 
  applications 
  of 
  electricity, 
  etc. 
  He 
  was 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  

   Academy, 
  the 
  Anthropological, 
  Historical, 
  and 
  Philosophical 
  Societies 
  of 
  

   Washington, 
  and 
  the 
  Institute 
  of 
  Electrical 
  Engineers. 
  

  

  Henry 
  B. 
  Collins, 
  Jr., 
  of 
  Louisiana, 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  1922 
  National 
  

   Geographic 
  Society 
  expedition 
  to 
  Pueblo 
  Bonito, 
  will 
  spend 
  the 
  next 
  few 
  

   months 
  in 
  Washington 
  studying 
  the 
  collections 
  of 
  the 
  expedition. 
  

  

  Mayo 
  D. 
  Hersey, 
  formerly 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Standards, 
  and 
  until 
  

   recently 
  associate 
  professor 
  of 
  properties 
  of 
  matter 
  in 
  the 
  department 
  of 
  

   physics, 
  Massachusetts 
  Institute 
  of 
  Technology, 
  has 
  resigned 
  to 
  take 
  a 
  po- 
  

   sition 
  as 
  physicist 
  in 
  charge 
  of 
  the 
  physical 
  laboratory 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Bureau 
  of 
  

   Mines 
  at 
  Pittsburgh, 
  Pa. 
  

  

  Neil 
  M. 
  Judd, 
  curator 
  of 
  American 
  Archeology 
  at 
  the 
  National 
  

   Museum, 
  returned 
  to 
  Washington 
  September 
  28, 
  following 
  completion 
  of 
  the 
  

   second 
  season's 
  explorations 
  at 
  Pueblo 
  Bonito, 
  under 
  the 
  auspices 
  of 
  the 
  Na- 
  

   tional 
  Geographic 
  Society. 
  About 
  forty 
  secular 
  rooms 
  and 
  five 
  kivas 
  were 
  

   excavated 
  during 
  the 
  summer 
  and, 
  in 
  addition, 
  considerable 
  attention 
  was 
  

   devoted 
  to 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  possible 
  geophysical 
  conditions 
  which 
  prevailed 
  in 
  

   Chaco 
  Canyon 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  the 
  great 
  ruin 
  was 
  occupied. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Samuel 
  W. 
  Stratton, 
  director 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Standards 
  

   since 
  its 
  foundation 
  in 
  1901, 
  has 
  resigned 
  to 
  become 
  president 
  of 
  the 
  Massa- 
  

   chusetts 
  Institute 
  of 
  Technology. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  F. 
  E. 
  Wright 
  of 
  the 
  Geophysical 
  Laboratory, 
  Carnegie 
  Institution 
  

   of 
  Washington, 
  has 
  returned 
  after 
  a 
  year's 
  absence 
  in 
  South 
  Africa, 
  where 
  

   he 
  has 
  been 
  engaged 
  in 
  geological 
  and 
  petrological 
  investigations 
  in 
  company 
  

   with 
  Messrs. 
  Daly, 
  Palache, 
  and 
  Molengraaf. 
  

  

  