588 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



what Messrs. Alsberg and Cottrell deemed very desirable and neces- 

 sary objects, namely, the development of inventions and discoveries 

 which are made by employees incidentally to the regular work of the 

 scientific bureaus, as well as the protection of such inventions against 

 unfair exploitation to the detriment of the public. 



The U. S. Department of Agriculture has become a member of the 

 American Engineering Standards Committee. This committee con- 

 sists of representatives from the five large engineering societies, the 

 Army, the Navy, and the Department of Commerce, and several organ- 

 izations dealing with safety codes and fire protection. Messrs. A. T. 

 GoLDBECK, of the Bureau of Public Roads, D. J. Price, of the Bureau 

 of Chemistry, and E. H. Clapp, of the Forest SerAdce, have been ap- 

 pointed to represent the Department of Agriculture. 



An "Industrial Alcohol and Chemical Division" and a "Permit 

 Division" were established on October 15 in the prohibition unit of the 

 Bureau of Internal Revenue, to divide and handle the work of the former 

 Division of Technology. Mr. J. M. Doran has been appointed head 

 of the Industrial Division, and Dr. A. B. Adams will be in charge of the 

 Permit Division. 



The publication and information work of the Department of Agri- 

 culture has been reorganized, and Mr. Harlan Smith has been ap- 

 pointed Director of Information to have general supervision of all these 

 activities both in Washington and in the field. 



Dr. C. L. Alsberg, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, was elected president of the Association of 

 American Dairy Food and Drug Officials at the recent convention of 

 the Association at St. Louis. 



Dr. Henry M. Ami, who has been since January, 191 7, at the British 

 Embassy in Washington in charge of matters concerning war metals, 

 minerals, etc., returned to Ottawa in September to resume his pale- 

 ontological and geological work with the Geological Survey of Canada, 



Mr. William B. Brown, associate physicist, of the aeronautic power 

 plants section of the Bureau of Standards, has resigned to become in- 

 structor in physics at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 



Mr. J. P. CocKEY has been appointed research associate at the 

 Bureau of Standards by the Super Cement Company, Limited, and will 

 study methods of using oil in connection with portland cement. 



Dr. Whitman Cross, of the U. S. Geological Sur\'ey, has been ap- 

 pointed Honorary Associate in Petrology at the National Museum, 

 succeeding the late Dr. J. P. Iddings. 



Mr. Hubert M. Freeman, associate physicist of the radio section. 

 Bureau of Standards, has resigned to accept a position with the West- 

 inghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburgh, 

 Pennsylvania. 



