184 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Mr. Harvey BasslER, who has held a temporary appointment on 

 the U. S. Geological Survey since 191 1 while a student at Johns Hop- 

 kins University, has joined the permanent stafif of the Survey as assist- 

 ant geologist, and has been engaged in field work in the Virgin River 

 Oil Field, Utah. 



Mr. HoYT S. Gale, geologist in charge of the section of non-metal- 

 liferous deposits of the Division of Geology, U. S. Geological Survey, 

 who recently returned from Europe where he examined and reported 

 on the potash deposits for the Geological Survey and Bureau of Mines, 

 is on furlough for five months to make an examination of the oil fields 

 of eastern Bolivia. 



Mr. K. C. Heald, geologist of the U. S. Geological Survey, is re- 

 turning from Bolivia by way of the Amazon to the east coast of Brazil. 



Mr. George Livingston, who has been acting chief of the Bureau of 

 Markets, U. S. Department of Agriculture, since the resignation of Mr. 

 Charles J. Brand, was appointed chief of the Bureau on January 27. 

 Mr. Livingston came to the Department in 1915 as assistant marketing 

 specialist. 



Sir Oliver Lodge gave two lectures in Washington on February 10 

 and 1 1 on psychical subjects. 



Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary, U. S. N. (Retired), died at 

 his home, 1831 Wyoming Avenue, on February 20, 1920, in his sixty- 

 fourth year. Admiral Peary was born at Cresson, Pennsylvania, 

 May 6, 1856. He began his government service as a draftsman in 

 the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and in 1881 became a lieutenant 

 in the U. vS. Navy. In 1886 he began the series of Arctic explorations 

 which culminated in his attainment of the North Pole on April 6, 1909. 



Dr. Waldemar T. SchallER has resigned as chemist in the Division 

 of Physical and Chemical Research, U. S. Geological Survey, and has 

 accepted a position with the Great Southern Sulphur Company, In- 

 corporated, of New Orleans, Louisiana, operating at Orla, Texas. 



Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 has been elected a foreign member of the Kungliga Svenska Veten- 

 skapsakademien (Royal Swedish Academy) of vStockholm. 



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