SMITHSONIAN LOCAL NOTES 



Issued Ev^ery Other Week for the Information of the Employees 

 OF THE Smithsonian Institution and Its Branches 



Friday, June 19, 1925. 



Secretary and Mrs. Walcott left Wash- 

 ington Saturday, June 13, for the usual 

 season of geological field-work in the 

 Canadian Rocky Mountains. They will 

 assemble their outfit at Lake Louise for 

 the start into the mountains. They ex- 

 pect to return to Washington the latter 

 part of September. 



The following solar-constant results re- 

 fer to the first decade of June: 

 June Number of Values Mean 



1-10 10 1.919 



NATIONAL MUSEUM 

 NATURAL HISTORY BUILDING. 



Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, Curator of Ma- 

 rine Invertebrates, is spending the month 

 of June at the Tortugas, Florida, where 

 he is making a study of the Crustacea of 

 the region under the excellent facilities 

 provided by the marine biological labora- 

 tory of the Carnegie Institution. 



Mrs. Agnes Chase, assistant agrostolo- 

 gist in the Grass Herbarium, has returned 

 from Brazil with her collections. 



Professor A. S. Hitchcock is attending 

 an alumni meeting of the Iowa State 

 College at Ames. 



eDr. J, N. Rose received an honorary 

 LL.D. degree from Wabash College at 

 Crawfordsville, Indiana, Saturday, June 

 



Mr. B. H. Swales has recently presented 

 to the U. S. National Museum six birds 

 from Madagascar and five species new 

 to the Division of Birds. 



^ Dr. Peter Suschkin, the eminent Rus- 

 sian ornithologist who has been studying 

 at the LI. S, National Museum for the 

 past month, left June 3 for a tour of th; 

 West with Mrs. Suschkin before return- 

 ing to Russia. He expects to stop at 

 the Museum early in August, for a week 

 before finally sailing for home. 



Dr. Bartsch has given a number of 

 talks since the last issue of these Notes. 

 On June 4 he addressed the Scientific Club 

 of the Public Health Service on "The 

 hobbies of a naturalist." On June 5, at 

 the inter-city Scout Meet held at Boiling 

 Field, he gave a talk to about 600 Scouts 

 from ten of our largest eastern cities, on 

 "The advantages of the scout camps to 

 the scouts," stressing the nature study 

 program. On June 13 Dr. Bartsch con- 

 ducted the camp fire activities of the local 

 Boy Scouts at Camp Woodrow Wilson, 

 Burnt Mills, Maryland. It will be re- 

 membered that the 48 acres of ground 

 constituting this camp were given to the 

 local council of the Boy Scouts of America 

 by one of our regents, Mr. Brookings. 

 A large turn-out was present at Satur- 

 day's meeting, which marked the opening 

 of the Camp for the summer season. 

 On Tuesday evening, June 16, he ad- 

 dressed the Arts Club on "Birds and 

 men — a comparative study of animal 

 behavior." 



Doctor J. W. Gidley of the Division of 

 Vertebrate Paleontology is leaving for 

 Florida to work in cooperation with the 

 Amherst Museum expedition led by Pro- 

 fessor F. B. Loomis in a further investi- 

 gation of the Pleistocene deposits of that 

 State. He will leave here next Sunday 



