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  JOURNAL 
  OF 
  the; 
  WASHINGTON 
  ACADEMY 
  OF 
  SCIENCES 
  VOIv. 
  12, 
  NO. 
  20 
  

  

  SCIENTIFIC 
  NOTES 
  AND 
  NEWS 
  

  

  Closer 
  cooperation 
  between 
  the 
  weather 
  observation 
  stations 
  in 
  the 
  Ba- 
  

   hamas 
  and 
  the 
  Weather 
  Bureau 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Department 
  of 
  Agri- 
  

   culture 
  is 
  being 
  estabHshed 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  hurricane-warning 
  work. 
  

   Mr. 
  Benjamin 
  C. 
  ICadel, 
  a 
  meteorologist 
  from 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Weather 
  Bureau, 
  

   has 
  been 
  sent 
  to 
  Nassau 
  and 
  to 
  Inaugua, 
  in 
  the 
  Bahamas, 
  to 
  assist 
  in 
  this 
  work. 
  

  

  Excavations 
  for 
  a 
  new 
  hotel 
  building 
  at 
  Connecticut 
  Avenue 
  and 
  De 
  Sales 
  

   Street 
  in 
  Washington 
  have 
  uncovered 
  the 
  stumps 
  and 
  residues 
  of 
  a 
  Tertiary- 
  

   forest 
  of 
  cypress 
  of 
  considerable 
  geological 
  interest. 
  

  

  Ernst 
  G. 
  Fisher, 
  chief 
  mechanical 
  engineer 
  in 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Coast 
  and 
  Geo- 
  

   detic 
  Survey, 
  retired 
  from 
  the 
  service 
  August 
  5, 
  1922, 
  after 
  over 
  thirty-five 
  

   years 
  of 
  active 
  work 
  for 
  the 
  Government. 
  

  

  Joseph 
  W. 
  Grieg, 
  recently 
  assistant 
  in 
  the 
  department 
  of 
  mineralogy 
  at 
  

   Columbia 
  University, 
  has 
  been 
  added 
  to 
  the 
  staff 
  of 
  the 
  Geophysical 
  Labo- 
  

   ratory, 
  Carnegie 
  Institution 
  of 
  Washington, 
  as 
  a 
  petrologist. 
  

  

  John 
  B. 
  Henderson, 
  a 
  Regent 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution, 
  has 
  pur- 
  

   chased 
  for 
  the 
  Division 
  of 
  Mollusks 
  the 
  General 
  Evezard 
  Collection 
  of 
  mol- 
  

   lusks 
  estimated 
  at 
  from 
  7,000 
  to 
  10,000 
  specimens, 
  including 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  

   types. 
  General 
  Evezard 
  lived 
  in 
  western 
  India 
  for 
  twenty-eight 
  years, 
  and 
  

   being 
  interested 
  chiefly 
  in 
  mollusks 
  made 
  large 
  collections 
  of 
  those 
  animals. 
  

  

  Professor 
  A. 
  S. 
  Hitchcock, 
  Custodian 
  of 
  Grasses 
  at 
  the 
  National 
  Museum, 
  

   is 
  giving 
  a 
  course 
  on 
  taxonomic 
  botany 
  in 
  the 
  graduate 
  School 
  for 
  Depart- 
  

   ment 
  Workers, 
  U. 
  S. 
  Department 
  of 
  Agriculture. 
  

  

  Ellsworth 
  P. 
  Killip, 
  Aid 
  in 
  the 
  Division 
  of 
  Plants, 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  

   Museum, 
  returned 
  in 
  October 
  from 
  a 
  botanical 
  collecting 
  trip 
  of 
  six 
  months 
  

   in 
  Colombia 
  organized 
  by 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  Botanical 
  Garden, 
  the 
  Gray 
  Her- 
  

   barium, 
  the 
  Philadelphia 
  Academy 
  of 
  Natural 
  Sciences, 
  and 
  the 
  National 
  

   Museum. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  August 
  Krogh, 
  oceanographer, 
  Copenhagen, 
  Denmark, 
  winner 
  of 
  the 
  

   Nobel 
  Prize 
  in 
  medicine, 
  1920, 
  is 
  visiting 
  in 
  Washington, 
  and 
  lectured 
  before 
  

   the 
  Entomological 
  So(^iety 
  November 
  8. 
  

  

  C. 
  P. 
  LouNSBURY, 
  entomologist 
  of 
  the 
  Union 
  of 
  South 
  Africa, 
  who 
  has 
  been 
  

   in 
  official 
  entomological 
  work 
  for 
  twenty-six 
  years 
  at 
  Cape 
  Town, 
  is 
  visiting 
  

   the 
  United 
  States 
  and 
  has 
  recently 
  been 
  at 
  the 
  National 
  Museum 
  and 
  De- 
  

   partment 
  of 
  Agriculture. 
  Mr. 
  Lounsbury 
  is 
  a 
  New 
  Englander 
  by 
  birth 
  and 
  

   a 
  graduate 
  of 
  the 
  Massachusetts 
  Agricultural 
  College. 
  

  

  W. 
  W. 
  RuBEY, 
  assistant 
  geologist 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geological 
  Survey, 
  has 
  

   been 
  granted 
  leave 
  of 
  absence 
  to 
  accept 
  an 
  instructorship 
  at 
  Yale 
  University 
  

   for 
  the 
  current 
  year. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  George 
  Otis 
  Smith 
  has 
  resigned 
  as 
  director 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  Geological 
  

   Survey 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  qualify 
  as 
  a 
  member 
  of 
  the 
  Coal 
  Commission 
  appointed 
  

   by 
  the 
  President. 
  Dr. 
  Philip 
  S. 
  Smith 
  has 
  been 
  appointed 
  acting 
  director 
  

   in 
  the 
  interim. 
  

  

  David 
  White, 
  who 
  completes 
  ten 
  years' 
  service 
  as 
  chief 
  geologist 
  in 
  the 
  

   U. 
  S. 
  Geological 
  Survey 
  on 
  November 
  16, 
  will 
  be 
  relieved 
  of 
  that 
  duty 
  at 
  

   his 
  own 
  request 
  and 
  W. 
  C. 
  Mendenhall, 
  for 
  more 
  than 
  ten 
  years 
  the 
  ge- 
  

   ologist 
  in 
  charge 
  of 
  the 
  Land 
  Classification 
  Board, 
  will 
  be 
  made 
  chief 
  geol- 
  

   ogist. 
  Mr. 
  Mendenhall 
  will 
  be 
  succeeded 
  as 
  chief 
  of 
  the 
  Land 
  Classification 
  

   Board 
  by 
  Herman 
  Stabler. 
  

  

  