426 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



A party of twenty Czecho-vSlovak professors and teachers, officers of 

 Czecho-Slovak troops on their way back to Europe, visited Washington 

 on July 3 to study the educational institutions and museums of the 

 city. 



Mr. H. S. Bailey, formerly of the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, resigned his position with E. I. du Pont de 

 Nemours and Company on July i, to take charge of research for the 

 Southern Cotton Oil Company at Savannah, Georgia. 



Dr. Elmer D. Ball, of the Iowa Agricultural College, has been 

 appointed Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, and assumed office on 

 June 12. 



The degree of Master of Science was conferred on Major Edward 

 Hall Bowie, forecaster of the U. S. Weather Bureau, at the Com- 

 mencement of vSt. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, on June ii. 



Dr. Alfred H. Brooks, of the U. S. Geological Survey, received in 

 June the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Colgate Uni- 

 versity. 



Dr. Arthur F. Buddington, of the Geophysical Laboratory, Car- 

 negie Institution of Washington, has accepted the position of assistant 

 professor of geology at Princeton University. 



Mr. Earl P. Clark, assistant in chemistry at the Rockefeller In- 

 stitute for Medical Research, New York City, has joined the chemical 

 staff of the Bureau of vStandards. 



Mr. W. D. Collins, of the Bureau of Chemistr}^ U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, has been appointed chief of the quality-of-water divi- 

 sion of the U. vS. Geological Survey. 



Dr. F. G. CoTTRELL, of the Bureau of Mines, was elected chairman 

 of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the National 

 Research Council for the year ending July i , 1 92 1 , at the annual meeting 

 of the Division held on May 7. 



Dr. N. E. DoRSEY, who recently resigned as chief of the radium and 

 X-ray section of the Bureau of Standards, in order to take up private 

 consulting and testing work, has been retained by the Bureau in the 

 capacity of consulting physicist, while continuing his private work. 



Mr. W. F. FosHAG, of the division of mineralog^^ U. S. National 

 Museum, spent May and June in collecting minerals in California. 



Mr. Andre Goeldi, of Para, Brazil, has presented to the grass 

 herbarium of the National Museum an exceptionally complete and 

 well-prepared collection of grasses from Brazil, consisting of 299 speci- 

 mens. 



Major General William Crawford Gorgas, U. S. A. (Retired), 

 formerly surgeon general of the United States Army, and a resident 

 member of the Academy, died in London, England, on July 4, 1920, 

 in his sixtv-sixth year. General Gorgas was born at Mobile, Alabama, 

 October 3, 1854, and was appointed a surgeon in the United vStates 



