152 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Mr. J. D. Sears has been appointed associate geologist on the U. S. 

 Geological Surv^ey. He served as geologic aid on the Survey in 191 5 

 and 1 9 16, and has since been employed by the Sinclair Oil Corporation 

 in oil work in Costa Rica and Panama, during which time he surveyed 

 the manganese deposits of Panama for the Survey. 



Mr. M. K. Shaler, formerly a geologist of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, who cooperated with Mr. Herbert Hoover in Belgian relief 

 work during the war and has recently been visiting in the United States, 

 returned to Brussels in January to take up again his geological engineer- 

 ing work, suspended during the war. 



Dr. Roger C. Smith, of the Bureau of Entomology^ U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, resigned in Januan,^ to accept the position of 

 assistant professor of entomolog}' in the Kansas State Agricultural 

 College, at Manhattan, Kansas. 



Mr. Homer F. Staley, of the Bureau of Standards, has been ap- 

 pointed editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 



Mr. W. T. Thom, Jr., of the U. vS. Geological Survey, has been 

 granted leave of absence to spend eight months in Vienna assisting 

 in relief work under the auspices of the American Friends' Service 

 Committee. 



Dr. John R. vS wanton and Dr. Truman Michelson, of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, have recently been made corresponding members 

 of the Societe des Americanistes de Paris. 



Miss Ingeborg M. Toll, a graduate of Brown University, has been 

 appointed geologic aid in the U. S. Geological Sur\-ey, and will work in 

 the Section of Foreign Mineral Resources. 



Mr. Chester K. Wentworth, assistant geologist in the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey, has been engaged in a survey of .the coal fields of Vir- 

 ginia in cooperation with the Geological Survey of Virginia. 



Mr. W. P. WooDRiNG, who has been recently engaged in oil work for 

 the Sinclair Corporation in Panama and Costa Rica, has been appointed 

 associate geologist on the U. S. Geological Survey and will be engaged 

 in a study of the stratigraphy and paleontology' of the Gulf and Carib- 

 bean regions. 



