SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 45 1 



Mr. A. M. Heinzelmann, specialist in inks and varnishes at the 

 Bureau of Standards, has resigned to enter private employment. 



Mr. Frank L. Hess has returned from South America, and resumed 

 his work at the U. S. Geological Survey early in August. 



Mr. B. Iv. Johnson, geologist, has been appointed acting chief of the 

 Foreign Section of the Mineral Resources Branch of the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey, in the absence of Mr. Eugene Stebinger. 



The Division of Birds of the National Museum has recently received 

 496 bird skins from Mr. C. Boden Kloss, from his recent explorations 

 in Siam, Cochin China, and Southern Annam. Mr. Kloss's explora- 

 tions were partially financed by Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



Messrs. M. O. Leighton, C. T. Chenery, and A. C. Oliphant have 

 formed a co-partnership under the name of M. O. Leighton & Company, 

 with offices at 700 Tenth Street, for the purpose of engaging in general 

 engineering practice and industrial representation before the depart- 

 ments of the Federal Government. 



Mr. E. C. Leonard, of the Division of Plants, U. S. National Museum, 

 who accompanied Dr. W. L. Abbott to Haiti in February for botanical 

 explorations, returned to Washington on July 30. 



Messrs. R. B. Moore and Dorsey A. Lyon, of the Bureau of Mines, 

 made an inspection trip through the southern States in July, with the 

 purpose of selecting a site for the new non-metallic mineral station of 

 the Bureau. 



Mr. Sylvanus G. MorlEy, of the Carnegie Institution, returned to 

 Washington in July, after several months spent in archeological re- 

 search in Central American countries. 



Mr. James T. Newton, Commissioner of Patents, resigned on July 

 19, after thirty years of service in the Patent Office. 



Mr. R. M. OvERBECK, geologist, has resigned from the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey to accept a position with an oil company. 



Mr. David J. Price, engineer in charge of grain dust explosion in- 

 vestigations at the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, has been appointed chief of the newly organized "development 

 section" of the Bureau. 



Prof. Joseph F. Rock, formerly professor of botany in the College 

 of Hawaii, Honolulu, spent several days in July at the National Her- 

 barium, prior to leaving upon an extended trip of agricultural explora- 

 tion in eastern Asia for the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduc- 

 tion, U. S. Department of Agriculture, with which he has recently 

 become connected. 



