84 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. M. W. Lyon, Jr., formerly professor of pathology and bacteri- 

 ology, George Washington University, and at one time connected with 

 the Division of Mammals, U. S. National Museum, and Captain in 

 the Medical Corps during the war, has left Washington to take charge 

 of pathological work for a group of physicians at South Bend, Indiana. 

 His present address is 214 La Porte Avenue, South Bend. 



Dr. G. P. Merrill, of the National Museum, was elected vice- 

 president of the Geological Society of America at the meeting at Bos- 

 ton , December 2 9-3 1 , 1 9 1 9 . 



Mr. John Mirguet, of the Division of Marine Invertebrates, National 

 Museum, detailed to the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries' steamer Albatross 

 to care for biological material secured, has returned to Washington 

 after a trip along the southern Atlantic coast down to the Yucatan 

 Channel. 



Dr. Chase Palmer, chemist of the U. S. Geological vSurvey, has re- 

 signed to accept a position as chief chemist in the fuel oil department 

 of the Southern Pacific Company, at Bakersfield, California. 



Rear Admiral John Elliott Pillsbury, U. vS. N. (Retired), presi- 

 dent of the National Geographic Society, died on December 30, 191 9, 

 in his seventy-fourth year. He was born at Lowell, Massachusetts, 

 December 15, 1846, and graduated from the United States Naval 

 Academy in 1867. In addition to his varied service with the Navy, he 

 spent one year at the Hydrographic Office and ten years with the 

 Coast and Geodetic Surv-ey. During this period he made extended in- 

 vestigations of the ocean currents off the south Atlantic coast of the 

 United States. 



Mr. S. A. RoHWER, of the Bureau of Entomology, has been appointed 

 Honorary Custodian of Hymenoptera in the Division of Insects of the 

 National Museum. 



Mr. William L. Sclater, of the British Museum, visited Washington 

 in December. 



Dr. R. H. True, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of 

 Agriculture, was elected secretary of Section G (Botany) of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science, at the St. Louis 

 meeting in December. 



