SEPT. 19, 1923 SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 361 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Dr. T. WayLaNnp VAUGHAN, geologist of the U. 8. Geological Survey, has 
been appointed Director of the Scripps Institute for Biologic Research of the 
University of California, and will assume actual charge of the work at La 
Jolla, California, early in 1924. 
J. S. Brown, assistant geologist in the Geological Survey, has accepted a 
position for one year in the Department of Geology, Missouri School of 
Mines, Rolla, Missouri. 
Dr. L. W. SrepHenson, Geologist in Charge of the Section of Coastal 
Plain Investigation of the Geological Survey, is conducting private strati- 
graphic work for an oil company in Venezuela. He will be absent from the 
Survey for six or seven months. 
Professor THompson Brooke Maury died on July 15, 1923, in New York 
City. He was born in 1838 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He was well known 
locally because of his long connection with the Weather Bureau and his 
association with the late Dr. Cleveland Abbe. 
Dr. RapHAEL PuMPELLY, well known geologist, died at Newport, Rhode 
Island, on August 10, 1923, in his eighty-sixth year. He was born at Owego, 
New York, in 1837. After being professor of mining geology at Harvard 
from 1866 to 1875, he was a divisional chief in the U. 8. Geological Survey. 
More recently under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 
Dr. Pumper ty directed a physical, geographical, and archeological exploration 
of central Asia. He was a member of many scientific societies, including the 
National Academy of Sciences. 
©’ O. F. Coox, Bureau of Plant Industry, and a party of botanists, including 
Witu1aM R. Maxon, of the National Museum, recently returned from Central 
America and the West Indies, where they have been investigating the sources 
of crude rubber with the purpose of increasing its production in tropical 
America. Several weeks were spent in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and 
Haiti. 
Dr. Kart F. KeLtuerMan, associate chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, 
received the degree of Doctor of Science at the commencement of the Kansas 
State Agricultural College. 
