SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 339 



A new exhibit has been arranged in the department of geology of 

 the National Museum, consisting of portraits of early American geol- 

 ogists and copies of the first editions of their works, arranged to show 

 the history of the progress of mineralogical and geological science in 

 America. 



A shipment of over 12,000 publications, the largest single consign- 

 ment ever forwarded through the International Exchange vService of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, went forward to Belgium in April, to 

 aid in the restoration of Belgian libraries. 



A complete working model showing the mining and preparation of 

 the commercial forms of salt, made and presented by the Worcester 

 Salt Company of New York, has been set up in the division of mineral 

 technology of the National Museum. 



Dr. James R. AngELL, Chairman of the National Research Council, 

 and professor of psychology in the University of Chicago, has been 

 elected president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This 

 corporation, to which the late Andrew Carnegie gave the greater part 

 of his property, is chartered "For the purpose of receiving and main- 

 taining a fund or funds and applying the income thereof to promote the 

 advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding among 

 the people of the United States, by aiding technical schools, institu- 

 tions of higher learning, libraries, scientific research, hero funds, useful 

 publications, and by such other agencies and means as shall from time 

 to time be found appropriate therefor." Its present assets are about 

 $130,000,000. 



Dr. N. L. BowEN, formerly of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, and recently professor of mineralogy at 

 Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, rejoined the staff" of the Labora- 

 tory on May i. 



Mr. Spencer A. ColvillE, formerly with the New Amsterdam Gas 

 Compan}^ has been appointed associate gas engineer at the Bureau 

 of Standards. He will assist in investigations leading toward a na- 

 tional gas safety code, which have been arranged for with the co- 

 operation of the American Gas Association and the American En- 

 gineering Standards Committee. 



The nomination of Dr. F. G. Cottrell, assistant director of the 

 Bureau of Mines, to succeed Dr. Van H. Manning, resigned as director 

 of the Bureau, has been sent to the Senate by the President. 



A new record in precise leveling was made on March 9 by a Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey party in California in charge of C. A. Egner. In 

 eight hours of actual leveling the party ran 25.7 miles of single line. 



Mr. Neil M. Judd, Curator of American Archeology, U. S. National 

 Museum, left Washington on May i for the purpose of continuing his 

 archeological investigations of the region north and west from the 



