Il6 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



July 29, 1868. He became a topographer on the Survey in 1882 and had 

 been with the organization since that date, serving also in 1909-19 10 

 on a detail to the Geological Survey of Canada. During the European 

 war he was a major in the Engineer Corps of the Army. He was a 

 member of the Academy and of the Archaeological, Engineers', and 

 Geological Societies. 



Dr. Paul D. Foote, of the Bureau of Standards, has been appointed 

 Editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of America. 



A Coast and Geodetic Survey party in charge of N. H. Heck has 

 been locating submerged trees in Lake Washington, Seattle, by the 

 wire-drag method. The trees, which are a serious risk to navigation, 

 are then removed by pulling up the trees or dynamiting the tops. 

 The trees range from 60 to 100 feet in height and their tops are covered 

 by 6 to 30 feet of water. 



Mr. W. B. Hicks, chemist of the U. S. Geological Survey, resigned 

 on February i to accept a position as chemist with the Solvay Process 

 Company, of Syracuse, N. Y. 



Mr. Andrew Kramer, of the Astrophysical Observatory, Smith- 

 sonian Institution, has recently completed a graphical computing 

 machine, containing 8 slide rules, for use in reducing solar radiation 

 observations. 



Mr. George A. Rankin, formerly with the Pittsburgh Plate Glass 

 Company, and captain in the Chemical Warfare Service during the 

 war, joined the staff of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington, in January. 



Mr. R. W. Sayles, of Harvard University, who came to Washington 

 in Januar}^ to make a study of the National Museum's collection of 

 slates, is collecting data on the banding of slates and the modes of 

 origin of banding. 



Mr. Daniel E. Wise, of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, resigned in November to go into 

 private business at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. 



