248 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Mr. E. W. Shaw, geologist, is on leave of absence from the U. S. 

 Geological Survey for six months and will make a reconnaissance of a 

 large tract in Bolivia and the Argentine Republic with a view to its 

 development by an oil syndicate. Messrs. R. H. Sargent, chief 

 topographer of the Alaskan division, and G. L. Harrington, Edwin 

 Kirk and C. P. Ross, geologists of the Survey, also on furlough, will 

 accompany Mr. Shaw. 



Mr. Edward A. Sherman, assistant forester, has been appointed 

 associate forester of the Forest Serv'ice, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, to succeed Mr. Albert F. Potter, who resigned from the Service 

 in March. 



Installments of the large collection of Hawaiian marine moUusks 

 which Mr. D. Thaanum, of Hilo, Hawaii, has donated to the National 

 Museum in order that Dr. Dall's report upon the molluscan fauna of 

 the Hawaiian Islands may be rendered complete, began to arrive in 

 March. 



Dr. W. H. Weston, of the Office of Cereal Investigations, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, has completed two years' investigation of 

 downy mildews in the Philippine Islands and will return soon to the 

 United States for conference and preparation of additional papers for 

 publication. 



Dr. J. Franklin Meyer, physicist, of the Bureau of Standards, is 

 acting as secretary of the American Engineering Standards Committee, 

 during the absence of the Secretary, Dr. P. G. Agnew, who is in Europe 

 as a delegate to the International Electrotechnical Commission. 



