59© SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Mr. Albert B. Peck, associate physicist of the cement, sand and 

 stone section, of the Bureau of Standards, resigned on September 15, 

 to become assistant professor in the Department of Mineralogy, 

 University of Michigan. 



Mr. H. PiTTiER, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, who is at 

 present in Venezuela, will accompany a party of vSwiss engineers who 

 are expected in Venezuela in January for the purpose of investigating 

 doubtful points of the Venezuela-Colombia boundary as recently arbi- 

 trated by the King of Spain. The Commission will traverse the terri- 

 tory extending from a point on the Rio Meta to the headwaters of 

 the Guainiia in the Rio Negro basin, a region which has probably 

 never been visited by naturalists. 



Mr. Daniel H. Simpson has resigned from the chemical staff of the 

 Bureau of Standards to accept a position in the sales department of 

 the Edison Electric Appliance Company, Inc., of Chicago, Illinois. 



Messrs. E. N. Turnquist, physicist, and G. G. Sward, physical 

 chemist, have been appointed research associates at the Bureau of 

 Standards by Sears, Roebuck and Company of Chicago, to study the 

 methods of standardization of mechanical devices and commercial arti- 

 cles on a physical and chemical basis. 



Mr. H. M. Westergaard has been appointed a research engineer 

 at the Bureau of Standards by the American Concrete Association, to 

 investigate the properties of flat-slab concrete and tile structures. 



Mr. G. M. Williams, associate engineer of the cement, sand and 

 stone section of the Bureau of Standards, has resigned to accept a 

 position as professor of civil engineering at the University of Saskatch- 

 ewan, vSaskatoon, vSaskatchewan. 



Dr. Sadao Yoshida, of the Department of Pathology, Osaka Medical 

 College, Dr. T. Minowa, now at Cold vSpring Harbor, Long Island, 

 and Prof. Hiko Matsumoto, of Sendai University, \'isited Washington 

 in October. 



