SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The American Ornithologists' Union met in Washington on Novem- 

 ber 9-1 1. 



The seventh revised edition of the Smithsonian Physical Tables, 

 after considerable delay due to printing difficulties, appeared in October. 

 It contains about 100 more pages and 170 more tables than the sixth 

 revision. 



An Advisory Board on the subject of highway research, under the 

 chairmanship of Dean Marston of Iowa State College, has been organ- 

 ized by the Engineering Division of the National Research Council. 

 Money will be provided for a salaried technical director of the Board 

 who will give his whole time to the work. The U. S Bureau of Public 

 Roads will cooperate in this work. 



A cryogenic laboratory for the study of liquefied gases, including 

 hydrogen and helium, is being installed at the Bureau of Mines. The 

 laboratory will be under the direction of Dr. R. B. Moore. 



Contracts were let in November for the construction of five rein- 

 forced concrete buildings for the new Naval experimental and research 

 laboratory to be established at Belleview, D. C, on the east bank 

 of the Potomac River, south of Washington. The laboratories are 

 to cost about $650,000. The funds are provided from a war appro- 

 priation authorized by Congress on the recommendation of the Naval 

 Consulting Board. 



An illustrated lecture on The stereographic method as applied to 

 photographic mapping and the apparatus used in connection therewith 

 was given in the auditorium of the Interior Department on Saturday, 

 November 13, by Mr. N. Sandor, of Jena, Germany, a representative 

 of the International Stereographic Central, under the auspices of the 

 Topographic Branch of the U. S. Geological Survey. 



Mr. H. D. Foster has been appointed research associate at the 

 ■ Bureau of Standards by the Hollow Building Tile Association. 



Dr. Ralph E. Hall, formerly of the Geophysical Laboratory of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington, has resigned from the Fire- 

 stone Rubber Company, of Akron, Ohio, to accept a position with 

 the Koppers Company, manufacturers of by-product coke ovens, at 

 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 



Mr. Elmer D. Merrill, Director of the Philippine Bureau of 

 Science, spent two weeks in Washington during November. 



Mr. Harry S. Mulliken, a consulting and metallurgical mining 

 engineer of New York City, has been appointed technical assistant 

 to the Director of the Bureau of Mines. 



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