82 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Following the recommendation of the map-making conference,^ a 

 Board of Surveys and Maps has been created by executive order for 

 the purpose of coordinating the activities of the map-making agencies 

 of the Federal Government. 



Life memberships in the National Geographic Society "in recogni- 

 tion of eminent ser\dces for the increase and diffusion of geographic 

 knowledge" were awarded from the Jane M. Smith Life Membership 

 Fund on December 22 to the following: Frank G. Carpenter, O. 

 F. Cook, Robert F. Griggs, Willlvm H. Holmes, Stephen T. 

 Mather, E. W. Nelson, Joseph Strauss, and Walter T. Swingle. 



The magnetic-survey vessel Carnegie left Washington on October 9, 

 on a two-year cruise of 64,000 nautical miles. She arrived at her first 

 port of call, Dakar, vSenegal, West Coast of Africa, on November 23, 

 but on account of the bubonic plague sailed a few da)''s later and is 

 now enroute to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she was expected to 

 arrive about the end of January. The scientific personnel of the pres- 

 ent cruise consists of the following: J. P. i\uLT, in command; H. F. 

 Johnston, magnetician, second in command; Russell Pemberton, 

 surgeon and observer; A. Thomson, H. R. Grummann and R. R. 

 Mills, observers. 



Dr. Edson S. Bastin terminated his work as geologist in charge of 

 the Division of Mineral Resources of the U. S. Geological Survey on 

 December 26, 1919, to become Professor of Economic Geology at the 

 TTniversitv of Chicago. For the present he will retain his Survey con- 

 nection, on the per diem roll. 



Mr, E. F. BuRCHARD, geologist in charge of the iron and steel sec- 

 tion of the U. S. Geological Survey, has been granted a ten months' 

 leave of absence and will make geologic investigations in the Philip- 

 pines. 



Mr. A. A. Chambers, chemist in the Water Resources Branch of 

 the U. S. Geological Survey, has resigned to accept a position with 

 the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company as chemist in their steel 

 laboratory. 



Mr. J. C. Crawford resigned from the Bureau of Entomology on 

 December i, 1919, and has gone into the real estate business in Wash- 

 ington. 



Mr. A. J. Ellis has been appointed assistant chief of the Division 

 of Ground Waters in the Geological vSurvey and will be acting chief of 

 the division in the absence of Mr. Meinzer in Hawaii. 



Mr. W. A. English, geologist, has resigned from the U. S. Geological 

 Survey to examine oil lands for the New Zealand government and also 

 to make oil investigations in the Far East for New York interests. 



JSIessrs. O. W. Ferguson and P. M. Trueblood, of the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, have completed a line of precise levels across New 

 York State, from the northern end of Lake Champlain to Niagara 

 Falls. 



' See This Journal, 9: 605. 1919. 



