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who spent a number of years in the mining 

 camps, and then became interested in the oil 

 business in Coalinga field, California, where 

 he had much practical experience. For the 

 past several years he has been with the Cali- 

 fornia State Mining Bureau as deputy super- 

 visor. He has recently been apjHjinted as 

 petroleum engineer with the Bureau of Mines, 

 to take charge of the Dallas office, Texas. 

 Government leases in Louisiana will be taken 

 care of in conjunction with the demonstra- 

 tion work in Louisiana and Texas. 



The supervisory work under Mr. F. B. 

 Tough will cover the operating regulations to 

 govern the production of oil and gas under 

 the Act of February 25, 1920. These regula- 

 tions cover only the active drilling, produc- 

 tion, and gaging of oil and gas, the super- 

 vision of which has been assigned to the 

 Bureau of Mines by the Honorable John 

 Barton Payne, secretary of the interior. 

 Other regulations relating to the giving of 

 leases and permits, collection of royalty 

 moneys, etc., are under the supervision of 

 the General Land Office. 



The operating regulations, before being 

 submitted to the secretary of the interior, 

 were submitted to representatives of the oil 

 industry in the states concerned at a confer- 

 ence held in Washington under Assistant 

 Secretary of the Interior Vogelsang, on April 

 1 and 2. These regulations, therefore, have 

 the approval of representatives of the in- 

 dustry with practical field and business ex- 

 perience in oil and gas. The administration 

 of the regulations will be undertaken by ex- 

 perienced engineers. 



THE REORGANIZATION OF THE NELA RE- 

 SEARCH LABORATORIES 



The Nela Research Laboratory was organ- 

 ized in 1908 under the directorship of Dr. Ed- 

 ward P. Hyde as the physical laboratory of the 

 National Electric Lamp Association. The 

 name was changed to Nela Research Labora- 

 tory in 1913, when the National Electric Lamp 

 Association ibeoame the National Lamp Works 

 of General Electric Company. For some years 

 the laboratory was devoted exclusively to the 

 development of those sciences on which the 



art of lighting has its foundation, but in 1914 

 the functions of the laboratory were extended 

 by the addition of a small section of applied 

 science, which had an immediate practical ob- 

 jective. 



The section of applied science is now being 

 largely extended as a separate laboratory of 

 applied science under the immediate direction 

 of Mr. M. Luckiesh, who becomes director of 

 applied science, and a new building is being 

 constructed to house this branch of the work, 

 which will be carried forward with a staflf of 

 several physicists, an engineer, an architect 

 and a designer, together with the necessary 

 technical and clerical assistants. 



As has already been noted in Science, Dr. 

 Ernest Fox Nichols, formerly president of 

 Dartmouth College, and more recently pro- 

 fessor of physics at Yale University, has ac- 

 cepted an invitation to assume the immediate 

 direction of the laboratory of pure science, 

 under the title of director of pure science. 

 The work of this laboratory, which will be con- 

 tinued in the present building, will be some- 

 what further extended under the new organiza- 

 tion. 



The Laboratory of Pure Science and the 

 Laboratory of Applied Science will together 

 constitute the Nela Research Laboratories, and 

 will be coordinated under the general direction 

 of Dr. Hyde, who becomes director of research. 



THE LISTER MEMORIAL 



At a public meeting held at the Mansion 

 House, London, in October, 1912, the follow- 

 ing proposals for commemorating the work of 

 Lord Lister were adopted : " The placing of a 

 memorial in Washington Abbey, to take the 

 form of a tablet with medallion and inscrip- 

 tion; the erection of a monument in a public 

 place in London; and the establishment of an 

 International Lister Memorial Fund for the 

 achievement of surgery, from which either 

 grants in aid of researches bearing on surgery 

 or awards in recognition of distinguished con- 

 tributions to surgical science should be made, 

 irrespective of nationality." Nature reports 

 that a meeting of the general committee was 

 held in the rooms of the Royal Society on 



