56 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. L. A. Bauer gave an illustrated address on Observations of the 

 total solar eclipse of May 2Q, igig, at Cape Pahnas, Liberia, and other 

 places, before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at Boston, 

 Massachusetts, on Januar}^ 14. 



Dr. Walter van Dyke Bingham, director of the division of applied 

 psychology of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, has 

 been elected chairman of the division of anthropology and psychology 

 of the National Research Council for the term ending July i, 1920. 



Mr. R. M. Davis resigned from the Power Section of the Water 

 Resources Branch, U. S. Geological Survey, in October, to take up 

 work as statistician for the Electrical World. He takes the position of 

 Mr. W. B. Heroy, formerly of the Survey, who has entered the employ 

 of the Sinclair Oil Corporation. 



Mr. B. E. Jones of the Water Resources Branch, U. S. Geological 

 Survey, returned to Washington on November 7, after spending the 

 season in the St. Mary and Milk River basins in Montana. Mr. Jones 

 and Mr. S. G. Dawson of the Canadian Reclamation Service, were 

 engaged in the division of the waters of St. Mary and Milk rivers under 

 the direction of the International Joint Commission. 



An anniversary publication of the American Journal of Physical 

 Anthropology \s being planned for March, 1920 in honor of the seventieth 

 birthday of Dr. George M. Kober on March 28, 1920. 



Mr. R. S. McBride resigned from the Bureau of Standards on 

 January 15 to accept a position as technical editor with the McGraw- 

 Hill Company of New York City. His headquarters will be in Wash- 

 ington in connection with the Washington office of the company. 



Since the return of Mr. Eugene Stebinger from private work in 

 the Tampico oil field of Mexico he has been appointed chief of the 

 Foreign Section of the Mineral Resources Branch, U. S. Geological 

 Sur\^ey. 



