SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Mr. Rkeves W. Hart has recently resigned from the Leather 

 Section of the Bureau of Standards, to become research chemist at the 

 Benicia tannery of Kullman, Salz and Company, at Benicia, Cahfornia. 



Mr. Mayo D. Hersey, chief of the Aeronautic Instrument Section 

 of the Bureau of Standards, resigned in October to take the position 

 of Associate Professor of Properties of Matter, in the department of 

 physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He will be 

 succeeded at the Bureau by Dr. F. L. Hunt. 



Major Lawrence Martin, of the General Staff, U. S. Army, has 

 been ordered to report to the Secretary of State for temporary duty 

 to assist in preparing a report to the President on the proposed western 

 boundaries of Armenia. 



Mr. Kenneth P. Monroe has resigned from the color laboratory of 

 the Bureau of Chemistry to accept a position at the Jackson Labora- 

 tory of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, Dela- 

 ware. 



Professor Harmon Northrop Morse, professor of inorganic and 

 analytical chemistry and director of the chemical laboratory of Johns 

 Hopkins University, and a non-resident member of the Academy, 

 died on September 8, 1920, at Chebeague Island, Maine, in his seventy- 

 second year. Professor Morse was born at Cambridge, Vermont, 

 October 15, 1848. He became connected with Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity in 1876, shortly after completing his academic and scientific 

 education at Amherst and at Gottingen, and was connected with the 

 institution from that date until the time of his death. His publica- 

 tions covered a wide range of inorganic, analytical, and physico-chemical 

 subjects, but his attention was particularly directed during recent years 

 to the measurement and theory of osmotic press,ures. 



Dr. C. NusBAUM, formerly of the Magnetic Section of the Bureau 

 of Standards, has been appointed research associate in the Division of 

 Industrial Research and Cooperation of the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology. 



Dr. P. V. Wells is returning to the Bureau of Standards after com- 

 pleting his investigations on the stratification of thin soap films, which 

 he has been carrying forward at the laboratory of Professor Perrin 

 in Paris. Dr. Wells attended the recent meeting of the British As- 

 sociation. 



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