300 JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES VOL. 13, No. 13 
885TH MEETING 
The 885th meeting was held jointly with the Washington Academy of 
Sciences and the Geological Society of Washington in the Auditorium of 
the Interior Building at 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1923. 
The following papers on the Taylor-Wegener Hypothesis were presented: 
(1) Franx B. Taytor—The lateral migration of land masses. 
(2) R. A. Daty—A critical review of the hypothesis. 
(3) W. D. Lampert—The mechanics of the hypothesis. 
After the completion of the third paper, the hour was so late that the fourth 
paper by F. E. Wricur on Report of the symposium at the meeting of the 
British Association was not called for. 
J. P. Auut, Recording Secretary. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Dr. P. 8S. Ersretrn, of the California Institute of Technology, lectured at 
the Bureau of Standards Physics Club, Saturday, June 2, on The principle 
.of correspondence or the relation of the quantum theory to classical mechanics. 
Messrs. A. H. Brooks and T. WayLANp VauGuan of the U. 8S. Geological 
Survey, and N. M. FeNNeMAN of the National Research Council and H. E. 
Grecory of Yale University, both associated with the Geological Survey, 
will attend the Pan-Pacific Congress in Australia in August as official dele- 
gates of the Government. 
Dr. N. L. Bowsn, petrologist, of the Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie 
Institution of Washington, is spending the summer studying the igneous 
rocks of England, Scotland, Norway, and Sweden. 
Dr. F. C. Cook, of the Bureau of Chemistry, U. 8S. Department of Agricul- 
ture, died at Dallas, Texas, on June 19, 1923, in his forty-sixth year. He was 
born at Litchfield, Connecticut, July 14, 1877. Dr. Cook had been connected 
with the Bureau of Chemistry since 1903. His scientific studies and publica- 
tions were concerned with metabolism, enzymes, insecticides, fungicides, 
etc. He was a member of the Acapemy, American Chemical Society, and 
several local and foreign societies. 
Mr. A. B. Fan has resigned from the U. S. Geological Survey and has 
joined the staff of the Vacuum Oil Company. He will be in Europe for the 
next few months. 
Dr. Atus Hrpuicka, of the Department of Anthropology, U. 8. National 
Musi 1, has sailed for Europe to take charge of a party of American scien- 
tists who will study during the summer the prehistoric remains in England, 
the Island of Jersey, France, Belgium, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Croatia. 
Dr. Grorcr M. Koper, dean of the medical school of Georgetown Uni- 
versity for the last thirty-two years, received the degree of doctor of letters 
at the 124th commencement exercises of the University on June 11. 
Mr. E. 8. Larsen, Jr., has been appointed professor of petrography at 
Harvard University and will relinquish his work as chief of the section of 
petrography of the U. 8. Geological Survey on September 1. 
Mr. W. R. Maxon sailed from New York May 15 for the purpose of 
making botanical collections in Central America, in cooperation with the 
U. S$. Department of Agriculture, which is sending an expedition for the 
investigation of the rubber resources of that region. 
