404 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Mr. M. J. ProFFitt, formerly of the Great Western Sugar Com- 

 pany, Denver, Colorado, has been put in charge of sugar technology 

 at the Bureau of Standards. 



Dr. Brayton H. Ransom, of the Bureau of Animal Industry, has 

 been elected a corresponding member of the Societ6 de Pathologic 

 Exotique of Paris. 



Mr. Edward Sampson, of Princeton University, has been appointed 

 assistant geologist in the metalliferous section of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey. 



Mr. Eugene Stebinger, geologist in charge of the Foreign Section 

 of the Mineral Resources Branch, U. S. Geological Survey, has been 

 granted furlough from June i, in order to go to South America for an 

 American oil company. He is accompanied by Harvey Bassler 

 and J. B. Mertie of the Survey. 



Mr. Henry Earl Surface, formerly chemist in the U. S. Forest 

 Service, and recently transferred to the Treasury Department, was 

 killed in a railway accident near Schenectady, New York, on June 9, 

 1920. Mr. Surface joined the Forest Service in 1907, after graduation 

 from Ohio State University. He went to Madison, Wisconsin, in 

 June, 1 9 10, when the Forest Products Laboratory was transferred to 

 that place. In 191 9 he was transferred to the Bureau of Internal 

 Revenue in connection with the valuation of forest lands. He was a 

 member of the Chemical Society. 



Dr. W. van BemmelEN, director of the magnetic and meteorological 

 observatory at Batavia, Java, spent several weeks in Washington in 

 June, visiting the laboratories of the city. 



Secretary Charles D. Walcott, of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 left Washington on June 19 to spend the summer in geological field 

 work in the Canadian Rockies. 



