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the Yosemite Valley that is being prepared under the direction of Dr. E. O. 
Hovey. 
Dr. Cartes Moon of Cornell University, began work at the Bureau of 
Standards on February 6, in the Section of Induction and Capacity, Electrical 
Division. 
Dr. Epwarp W. Mor.ey, emeritus professor of chemistry at Western 
Reserve University, and one of the most famous American scientists, died 
on February 26 at Hartford, Connecticut, in his 86th year. He was born 
at Newark, New Jersey, January 29, 1838. He was educated at Williams 
College and received honorary degrees from that university and also from 
Western Reserve, Lafayette, Pittsburgh, Wooster, and Yale, also holding 
the professorship at Cleveland Medical College from 1873-88. Among 
notable prizes awarded to Professor Morley were the Davy Medal of the 
Royal Society in 1907, Cresson Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1912, 
and the Gibbs Medal in 1916. His work on the atomic weight of oxygen 
and the densities of oxygen and hydrogen is known to all chemists, while 
the Michelson-Morley experiment is one of the most fundamental in physics. 
Professor Morley was a member of the AcapEmy and of many national and 
foreign chemical and physical societies. 
Dr. F. C. Weser, for many years chemist in the Bureau of Chemistry, 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, has resigned to accept a position with the 
Fleischmann Company, New York, N. Y. 
