600 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. HiDEYO NOGUCHi of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search, New York City, gave a lecture at the National Museum at 

 4 p. m., Wednesday, November 17, on Recent studies of yellow fever. 

 The lecture was given under the auspices of the Army Medical School. 



Messrs. Charles Resser and R. S. Bassler of the National Mu- 

 seum have prepared an exhibit of fossil plants, arranged biologically, 

 in the paleobotanical hall of the Natural History Building. This is 

 the first systematic exhibition of its kind in the Museum. 



Mr. Bert Russell, formerly of the Patent Office, left the service 

 of Prindle, Wright and Small of New York City on December i, to 

 accept a position with R. F. Steward, chemist and patent attorney, 

 of Washington. 



Messrs. P. S. Smith of the U. S. Geological Survey, and E. A. HoL- 

 brook and O. P. Hood of the Bureau of Mines, have been appointed 

 by the Secretary of the Interior to serve on the American Engineering 

 vStandards Committee, of which the Department has become a member. 



Mr. Nelson R. Wood, for over thirty-two years a taxidermist in 

 the National Museum, died on November 8, 1920. 



