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the appointment of Dr. C. A. Browne. Dr. Browne has for the past six- 
teen years been head of the New York Sugar Trade Laboratory and pre- 
viously was chief of the sugar laboratory at the Bureau of Chemistry. 
Non-political interests view with dismay the action of Dr. Hubert Work, 
Secretary of the Interior, in dismissing Mr. A. P. Davis and appointing in 
his place as director of the Reclamation Service former Gov. Davis of 
Idaho. Protests have been filed at the Interior Department by engineering 
and water-power organizations. 
Dr. D. R. Harper, physicist, U. 8. Bureau of Standards, Washington, 
D. C., has been detailed to New York for service as liaison officer between 
the Bureau of Standards and the American Engineering Standards Com- 
mittee in the Engineering Societies Building, New York City, succeeding 
Dr. A. S. McAuuister of the Bureau of Standards, recalled from New York 
to Washington. Dr. McAllister takes charge of part of Secretary Hoover’s 
special work in relation to commodity standards and specifications, inaugu- 
rated recently under the Bureau of Standards. 
Mr. W. E. Myer of the Smithsonian Institution has returned from Ten- 
nessee where for the past two and a half months he has been excavating the 
Great Mound Group in Cheatham county. He found traces of an impor- 
tant ancient town covering about 500 acres in two adjoining bends of Har- 
peth river. Many earth-lodge sites were excavated which yielded a con- 
siderable amount of information as to the life of the former inhabitants. 
