OOTOBEE 1, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



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I The present structure, wliicli is of concrete, 

 stone, and brick, has a fully finished basement 

 besides two full -stories and a finished third 

 story over the center and larger portion of the 

 building. The present laboratory accommoda- 

 tions for 16 investigators can be extended by 

 conversion of other rooms into laboratories. 

 A well-lighted library, chemical laboratory, 

 photographic room, museum, tank and aqua- 

 rium rooms are other useful features of the 

 building. 



■• The architect of the building is James M. 

 White, professor of architecture and supervis- 

 ing architect of the University of Illinois, who 

 freely gave his professional services to the 

 national government. 



EXPEDITIONS OF THE BISHOP MUSEUM 



Three parties of the Bayard Dominick Ex- 

 pedition from the Bishop Museum are now in 

 the field. The Marquesas Island party con- 

 sists of Dr. Edward S. Handy, ethnologist; 

 Dr. Ralph Lauton, archeologist; Dr. For- 

 est B. H. Brown, botanisrt. E. W. G-ifEord 

 and Wm. 0. McKern are conducting an eth- 

 nographic survey of the Tonga Islands. E. T. 

 Aitken and John E. G. Stokes, ethnologists, 

 are undertaking an anthropological study of 

 the Austral Island group. Two additional bot- 

 anists are to be appointed in October. 



The scope of the cooperative work of the 

 American Museum of Natural History and 

 the Bishop Museum, under the direction of 

 Dr. L. R. Sullivan, has been expanded to in- 

 clude a comprehensive anthropologic survey 

 of the people of the Hawaiian Islands. It will 

 include studies of the Hawaiians, Japanese, 

 Chinese, Portuguese, Koreans and Anglo-Sax- 

 ons. Particular attention will be given to full 

 blood and mixed blood Hawaiians and to 

 skeletal remains in ancient burial caves. 



It is announced that the Young Collection 

 of Polynesian ethnological material, the re- 

 sult of twenty years' work in the society, 

 Marquesas, Easter and Paumotu Islands by J. 

 L. Young, has been obtained by the Bishop 

 Museum. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Sir F. W. Dyson, astronomer royal, Green- 

 wich, has been elected an honorary member 

 of the American Astronomical Society. 



Professor T. D. A. Cockerell, of the Uni- 

 versity of Colorado, has been elected an hon- 

 orary fellow of the American Museum of ISTat- 

 ural History in recognition of his distin- 

 guished services to science. 



Dr. William Mansfield Clark, physical 

 and biological chemist at the Dairy Division, 

 Bureau of Animal Indualtry, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, has become head of the 

 chemical division of the Hygienic Laboratory. 



Dr. Amadeus W. Grabau, for eighteen 

 years professor of paleontology at Columbia 

 University, has been called by the Chinese 

 government to a professorship at the Univer- 

 sity of Peking. He also has been appointed a 

 member of the Chinese Geological Survey. 

 Dr. Grabau will remain for three years in 

 China to build up geological research work for 

 the Chinese government. 



Mr. Jambs T. ITewton, commissioner of 

 patents, has resigned, after thirty years of 

 service in the Patent Office. 

 , Mr. Leslie Spier, assistant in anthropology 

 in the American Museum, has been appointed 

 associate curator of the museum of the depart- 

 ment of anthropology in the University of 

 California. 



Dr. Rodney B. Harvey, formerly plant 

 physiologist in the Division of Plant Physio- 

 logical Investigations, Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try, who resigned to accept the position of 

 assistant professor of plant physiology in the 

 University of Minnesota and assistant plant 

 physiologist in the Minnesota Experiment Sta- 

 tion, has been retained on the rolls of the bu- 

 reau as collaborator under a cooperative ar- 

 rangement. 



Mr. Hoyt S. Gale, who recently returned 

 from Bolivia, has resigned from the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey, to take up private work. 



Benjamin Richard Jacobs has resigned 

 from the Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, to become director of the 



