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in the University of Oxford at the end of the 

 current year. 



Mr. F. J. Katz has been granted leave of 

 absence from the Mineral Resources division 

 of the U. S. Geological SiuT^ey in order to 

 accept an appointment as expert special agent 

 in charge of Mines and Quaries for the Bu- 

 reau of Census. This arrangement is to in- 

 sure close and efiective cooperation between 

 the two bureaus in the Fourteenth Census. 



Mr. O. J. E. HowARTH, assistant secretary 

 of the British Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, is making a collection of 

 materials for a history of the association. 

 , Mr. John B. Ferguson has presented his 

 resignation from the Geophysical Laboratory, 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, to be in 

 effect ISTovember 1, and has accepted a research 

 position with the "Western Electric Company 

 in New York City. 



Charles Barto Brown has resigned as pro- 

 fessor of civil engineering at 'the University of 

 Maine and is now associated with The Fred- 

 erick M. Ward Company in New Haven, Conn. 



Dr. F. W. Skierow, for the past four years 

 assistant professor of chemistry at McGill 

 University, has resigned this position to be- 

 come chief chemist to the Shawinigan Labor- 

 atory, Ltd., the newly founded research or- 

 ganization of the Shawinigan Water and 

 Power Co., Shawinigan Falls, Que. 



Dr. W. W. Bobbins has resigned as pro- 

 fessor of botany and botanist at the Colorado 

 Agricultural College and Experiment Station 

 to accept a position in the experimental de- 

 partment of the Great Western Sugar Com- 

 pany, with headquarters at Longmont, Colo- 

 rado. 



Mr. Berry V. Bush, formerly head of the 

 chemistry department at Friends Central 

 School, Philadelphia, has been appointed re- 

 isearch chemist in the organic research labora- 

 tories of the Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, 

 2sr. Y. 



Dr. L. a. Bauer, after returning to England 

 from his eclipse expedition to Cape Palmas, 

 Liberia, represented the United States Weather 



Bureau at a preliminary conference of di- 

 rectors of government weather bureaus of 

 allied and neutral countries, called by Sir 

 |N"apier Shaw at the British Meteorological 

 OfEce, July 3-9. Later, as one of the United 

 States delegates, he attended the meetings of 

 the International Research Council and of the 

 International Geodetic and Geophysical Union 

 at Brussels from July 18 to 30. Since his re- 

 turn to the United States at the end of Au- 

 gust, he has presented papers before various 

 societies on the eclipse of May 29, 1919, and 

 his experiences in Liberia. On December 2 

 he will deliver an illustrated lecture before the 

 Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and 

 the University of Toronto on the eclipse of 

 May 29, 1919 and the researches of the De- 

 partment of Terrestrial Magnetism. Besides 

 photographs secured at his own station at 

 Cape Palmas, he has received copies of photo- 

 graphs from the various expeditions along the 

 belt of totality, from Bolivia to the French 

 Congo. 



: James R. Crawford, of New York, one of 

 the two members of the Stefansson Arctic ex- 

 pedition who were left on Banks Island two 

 years ago, has arrived from the far north on 

 the auxiliary schooner Herman. Mr. Craw- 

 ford told of the hardships he endured during 

 his forced stay of two years on Banks Island. 

 His one attempt to reach the mainland in a 

 small launch left by Mr. Stefansson met with 

 failure in the ice floes. 



Dr. O. Olsen proposes to conduct a small 

 Norwegian anthropological and botanical ex- 

 pedition to Siberia next spring. His plan is 

 to go to the Yenisei valley north of Krasno- 

 yarsk, and to push thence into the less known 

 regions immediately to the east. 

 , The tenth course of lectures on the Herter 

 Foundation is being given at the Johns Hop- 

 kins University by Henry Hallett Dale, F.R.S,. 

 director of the department of biochemistry 

 and pharmacology. Medical Research Commit- 

 tee on National Health Insurance, London. 

 The subjects of the three lectures are: No- 

 vember 13, " Capillary poisons and shock " ; 

 November 15, '' Anaphylaxis " ; November 15, 

 " Chemical structure and physiological action." 



