452 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



While in charge of a Coast and Geodetic Survey subparty working 

 in New Mexico, Mr. R. L. Schoppe was struck by lightning and seriously 

 burned, but is recovering. 



Dr. JOHS Schmidt, director of the Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, 

 visited the Division of Fishes of the U. S. National Museum in July. 



Mr. Edward Schramm, formerly on the chemical staff of the Bureau 

 of Standards, has left the research laboratory of the Bridgeport Brass 

 Company, to take charge of research for the Onondaga Pottery Company 

 of Syracuse, New York. 



Mr. A. H. Taylor, of the photometer section of the Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, has resigned to accept a position at the Nela Research Laboratory 

 of the General Electric Company, at Cleveland, Ohio. 



Mr. W. T. Thom, Jr., of the U. S. Geological Survey, has returned 

 from Austria, where he was engaged in relief work. 



Mr. F. H. Tucker, associate chemist at the Bureau of Standards, 

 has resigned to take up research work at the New York laboratories 

 of the Chile Exploration Company. 



Mr. R. G. WalTENBERG, member of the physical staff at the Bureau 

 of Standards, has been appointed an industrial fellow of the Inter- 

 national Nickel Company, and will continue his researches at the 

 Bureau on the properties of nickel and monel metal. 



Dr. L. F. Witmer, formerly associate chemist at the Bureau of 

 Standards, has been appointed professor of chemistry at Lafayette 

 College, Easton, Pennsylvania. 



