402 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Prof. Marston Taylor Bogert, of Columbia University, has been 

 given a recess appointment by the President as a member of the U. S. 

 Tariff Commission. Doubt has been raised as to the legaUty of the 

 appointment, based on the fact that this and other appointments 

 had been submitted to the Senate but no action was taken before ad- 

 journmicnt. 



Mr. Eugene Sewell Bruce, special inspector for the U. S. Forest 

 Service, died on June 8, 1920, in his sixt^^-first year. He had been 

 with the Service since 1900, having previously been connected with 

 several large lumber companies. He was a member of the Society 

 of American Foresters. 



Prof. H. A. BuMSTEAD, professor of physics and director of the Sloane 

 Physical Laboratory, Yale University, has been elected Chairman of 

 the National Research Council for the year ending July i, 1921. 



Dr. H. D. Curtis, of the Lick Observatory, has been appointed 

 director of the Allegheny Observatory at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

 Dr. Keivin Burns, recently of the Bureau of vStandards, will be as- 

 sociated with Dr. Curtis in the work of the Observatory. 



Mr. B. S. Butler has resigned his position as geologist on the U. S. 

 Geological Survey to take up private work, and has been associated 

 since July i with L. C. Graton in making surveys of copper proper- 

 ties in Michigan. 



Mr. S. H. Cathcart is resuming his work in Alaska for the U. S. 

 Geological Survey. 



Mr. C. F. Choate, Jr., has been made a regent of the Smithsonian 

 Institution by Public Resolution No. 37, passed by the Senate on 

 March 3 and the House on April 5. 



Mr. William Churchill, Associate in Primitive Philology, Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, died on June 9, 1920, in his sixty -first year. 

 Mr. Churchill was born at Brooklyn, New York, October 5, 1859. 

 He had been consul-general in Samoa and Tonga, and had been a mem- 

 ber of the editorial staff of the New York Sun for 13 years, before 

 joining the Carnegie Institution in 191 5. During the war he was in 

 charge of the division of foreign language publications of the Com- 

 mittee on Public Information. 



The Willard Gibbs medal of the Chicago Section of the American 

 Chemical Society "in recognition and encouragement of eminent re- 

 search in theoretical and applied chemistry" was presented to Dr. 

 F. G. CoTTRELL, of the Bureau of Mines, onMay 21. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, chief of the Division of American Ethnology, 

 left Washington in June to continue his archeological work on the ruins 

 in Mesa Verde National Park. Unusual storms in the Rockies rendered 

 roads in the Park inaccessible during the spring. 



Dr. Gordon S. Fulcher, of the Research Information Service, 

 National Research Council, resigned on June i to join the research 

 staff of the Corning Glass Works at Corning, New York. 



