SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 151 



The National Research Council announces a series of public lectures 

 "for the purpose of stimulating interest in broad scientific research, 

 and to emphasize the vital connection between so-called scientific and 

 industrial research." The first lecture of the series was delivered at the 

 National Museum on February 6 by Mr. John J. Carty, Vice-President 

 of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and formerly 

 colonel in the Signal Corps, U. S. A., and was on the subject of Science 

 and the Industries. 



Mr. Arthur P. Davis, director and chief engineer of the U. S. 

 Reclamation vService, was elected president of the American Society 

 of Civil Engineers at its annual meeting in New York City on Januar\^ 

 21, 1920. 



Mr. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, editor of the National Geographic 

 Magazine, was elected president of the National Geographic Society 

 on January 21, succeeding the late Rear Admiral John E. Pillsbury. 



Mr. H. H. Kimball, of the Weather Bureau, left Washington in 

 February for an extended trip through the West. He expects to re- 

 turn about the middle of April. 



Mr. Kent K. Kimball, a graduate of the geological department of 

 the University of Nebraska, has been appointed a geologic aid in the 

 U. S. Geological Survey. 



Mr. John O. LaGorce, associate editor of the National Geographic 

 Magazine, has been elected to the Board of Managers of the Society, 

 for the term 1 919-192 1, succeeding the late Rear Admiral John E. 

 Pillsbury. 



Mr. Emory C. Leonard, of the U. S. National Museum, left Wash- 

 ington in February to spend several months in botanical collecting in 

 Haiti, in cooperation with Dr. W. L. Abbott, who is continuing his 

 zoological explorations of the region. 



Messrs. William R. Maxon and Ellsworth P. Killit, of the U. S. 

 National Museum, left New York on February 3 to spend the months 

 of February and March in botanical explorations in Jamaica. The work 

 is made possible by the cooperation of several botanical institutions. 



Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, Research Associate of the Carnegie In- 

 stitution of Washington, delivered a lecture under the auspices of the 

 Institution on January 23, on the subject. The foremost civilization of 

 ancient America. 



Mr. Arthur H. Redfield, recently engaged in foreign mineral supply 

 and tariff problems in the War Trade Board and Department of Com- 

 merce, has been appointed mineral geographer in the Section of Foreign 

 Mineral Resources of the U. S. Geological Survey. 



Mr. Clyde P. Ross, associate geologist, has been transferred from 

 the Water Resources Branch to the Coastal Plain Section of the Geologic 

 Branch of the U. S. Geological Surv^ey. 



