SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 83 



Dr. J. A. Fleming, chief of the magnetic survey division of the De- 

 partment of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution, sailed for 

 Buenos Aires on December 31 in order to meet the Carnegie there, 

 and will return to Washington by wa}^ of the Department's observa- 

 tory at Huancayo, Peru. 



Mr. Owen B. French, who has been professor of geodesy and prac- 

 tical astronomy in the Government Institute of Military Surveying, 

 Peking, China, since April, 191 8, returned to Washington in December, 

 1 91 9, having completed the work he had under contract. Although 

 requested to renew the contract, he preferred to return to the United 

 States to resume his previous occupation as consulting geodesist. 



Dr. E. C. Harder, geologist of the U. S. Geological Survey, has re- 

 signed to become geologist for the Republic Mining and Manufac- 

 turing Company and associated companies, with offices at 1 1 1 r Harri- 

 son Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Mr. K. C. Heald is on leave of absence from the U. S. Geological 

 Surve}'' and is engaged in oil reconnaissance work in Colombia. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the Bureau of Entomology, Department 

 of Agriculture, was elected president of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science at the St. Louis meeting in December. 

 Dr. Howard has been Permanent Secretary of the Association since 

 1898. Prof. E- L. Nichols, of Cornell University, has been elected 

 General Secretary of the Association under the new constitution, and 

 the office of Permanent Secretary will probably be filled by the execu- 

 tive committee of the Council within a few months. 



Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the vSmithsonian Institution, left Washing- 

 ton early in January for the Far East, in the interest of his studies 

 on the origin of the American Indian, and of the organization of anthro- 

 pological research in China. He expects to return in May. 



Prof. Tamiji Kawamura, assistant professor of zoology in the Im- 

 perial University of Kyoto, Japan, visited Washington in December, 

 giving particular attention to the work of the Division of Physical 

 Anthropology and the Division of Marine Invertebrates of the National 

 Museum. 



Dr. Br.'^dford Knapp, director of extension work in the southern 

 States for the Department of Agriculture, resigned on January 10, 

 to become dean of the College of Agriculture, and director of the Experi- 

 ment Station, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. 



Dr. Adolph Knopf, geologist of the U. S. Geological Survey, has 

 been appointed lecturer in geology at Yale University for the second 

 term of the present academic year. 



Mr. C. E. Lesher, geologist in charge of coal statistics in the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, has resigned to accept a position as statistical ex- 

 pert with the National Coal Association. 



Dr. G. F. Loughlin has been appointed chief of the Mineral Re- 

 sources Division of the U. S. Geological Survey, in the place of Dr. 

 E. S. Bastin, who becomes professor of economic geology at the I'ni- 

 versity of Chicago. 



