SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS

MALCOLM MACLAREN has gone to Algeria,

S. R. CAPPS has obtained temporary leave from the U. S. Geological Survey, and has gone to Turkey for geological work in oil.

W. L. WHITEHEAD, recently of the Geological Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sailed March 20 for South America to carry on Geologic exploration in Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile.

E. C. HARDER, who resigned from the U. S. Geological Survey, to be geologist for the Republic Mining and Manufacturing Co. is spending part time in Washington completing some of his reports.

W. T. SCHALLER has resigned as chemist in the Division of Physical and Chemical Research, United States Geological Survey, and has accepted a position with the Great Southern Sulphur Co., Inc., of New Orleans, La., operating at Orla, Texas.

J. B. TYRRELL, of Toronto, has been retained as consulting engineer by the National Mining Corporation, Ltd., of London, England.

E. W. SHAW, G. L. Harrington, R. H. Sargent, E. C. Kirk and C. P. Ross have left the U. S. Geological Survey temporarily to carry on geological work in Bolivia for private interests.

E. C. ANDREWS has been appointed Government Geologist to the Mines Department of New South Wales, succeeding J. E. Carne, who has retired.

W. C. PHALEN is leaving the U. S. Bureau of Mines to undertake geological work.

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Geologists, mining engineers and others interested in applied geology are invited to keep the editor informed of new investigations of mining districts or scientific studies undertaken by them, together with such other scientific and personal items as may come to their notice.

FREDERICK H. LAHEE, formerly professor of geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will take charge of the geological department of the Twin State Oil Co., at Tulsa, Oklahoma. Since the latter part of 1918 Mr. Lahee has been associate geologist for the Sun Oil Co., of Dallas, Texas, and he will maintain this connection together with his new work at Tulsa.

E. T. HANCOCK, of the U. S. Geological Survey, has gone to Roumania to undertake Petroleum Geological work.

D. F. Hewett, of Washington, D. C., has gone to Cuba to investigate manganese deposits in the island. He expects to return to Washington about May 20.

E. H. FINCH, of the U. S. Geological Survey, has joined the Shell Co. of California.

ARTHUR L. DAY announces a change of address from Corning Glass Works, Corning, New York, to Geophysical Laboratory, Washington,D. C.

K. C. HEALD, of the U. S. Geological Survey, has returned from South America.

CHESTER K. WENTWORTH, assistant geologist in the U. S. Geological Survey, has been making a survey of the coal fields of Virginia with the Geological Survey of Virginia.

J. J. O'NEILL, B. R. Mackay, Bruce Rose, A. O. Hayes and W. J. Wright, recently of the Canadian Geological Survey, have sailed for foreign service in petroleum geology.

Fayette A. Jones, formerly president of the New Mexico School of Mines, a member of the United States Geological Survey and State Geologist of New Mexico, has gone to visit Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia and Venezuela, where he will examine oil territory for a California syndicate.

L. D. BURLIN AND J. S. STEWARD, recently of the Geological Survey of Canada, are now engaged in petroleum geology in the

Americas.

J. D. SEARS has been appointed associate geologist on the U. S. Geological Survey. He was geologic aid on the Survey in 1915 and 1916, and has since worked for the Sinclair Oil Corporation

in Costa Rica and Panama. During that time he also surveyed the manganese deposits of Panama for the Survey.

LOFTUS HILLS has been appointed Government Geologist for Tasmania, succeeding the late W. H. Twelvetrees. He served for three and one half years in the mining corps attached to the Australian Expeditionary Forces in Europe. Last month he received the degree of D.Sc. from the Hobart University.

EUGENE LILLY, formerly geologist with the Greenwood Company of Minneapolis, Kansas City, Mo., is now with the White Oil Corporation of Wichita Falls, Texas.

L. A. BARTON AND ORRIN P. PETERSON have opened a consulting engineering office at 31 Nassau Street, New York City. Mr. Peterson is a mining geologist and Mr. Barton a petroleum engineer. The latter also has an office at Shreveport, La.

THE HAYDEN MEMORIAL GEOLOGICAL MEDAL for distinguished work in geology or paleontology for 1920 was awarded to Professor T. C. Chamberlin, of the University of Chicago.

F. C. LORING, of Toronto, has been to London, where he was examining mining properties in the Procupine area for an English mining syndicate.

WILLIAM T. NIGHTINGALE has resigned from the staff of the Washington State Geological Survey, and has gone to England to work for the Whitehall Petroleum Co.

A. H. FAY has resigned from the U. S. Bureau of Mines, and will do private consulting geological work in the mid-continental oil field.

H. W. TURNER has gone to Elko county, Nevada, on examination work.

H. L. F. BLAKE has left Quebec with a party to explore the Ungava region of northern Quebec. The expedition is in the interests of a British syndicate planning to develop the mineral resources of the rigon. They will return in October.

PHILIP ARGALL is visiting Australia and New Zealand.

W. H. TWELVETREES, who was government geologist for Tasmania for over twenty years, died on November 7, at the age of 71. He was born in England and educated at London and Hamburg. He spent ten years among the Russian copper mines, and ten more at the silver-lead mines in Asia Minor. He also spent several years in Australia. He has written several valuable articles on geological and mining subjects.

DR. ALFRED J. Moses, professor of mineralogy in Columbia University, died at the age of sixty-one years.

THE FIFTH annual meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists was held in Dallas, Texas, March 18-20. About 300 members and 100 visitors registered.

Ar the Thursday morning session the following papers devoted to New Mexico and Northwestern Texas were read: "The Geology of New Mexico as an index to probable oil resources," by J. K. Knox; "The Stratigraphy of northeastern New Mexico," by D. L. Garrett: "Oil possibilities of northeastern New Mexico,' by W. G. Matteson; “Types of structure at Amarillo, Texas," by C. N. Gould.

THE Thursday afternoon session dealt with Louisiana and Texas fields: the papers read were "The structure of northwest Louisiana," by Chester A. Hammill; "The Sabine uplift," by Sidney Powers: "Some problems of the Louisiana oil fields," by Irving Perrins: "The geological structure of Eastland and Stephens Counties. Texas." by H. H. Adams: "Position of the Ellenberger formation in north central Texas." by E. H. Sellards; “Unconformities in the Texas Permian." by J. W. Beede: “Suggestions of a new method of making underground observations," by J. A. Udden.

Ar the Thursday evening session, George Otis Smith spoke on “The Public Service Opportunity of the Of Geologies" which was followed by a reception and smolen

Ox Friday the 600 ing papers were given: "Define of Ranger of feld" br E A. Stephenson and H. P. Be

cline curve predictions," by G. H. Alvey; "Inter-relation of folds of Osage Co., Oklahoma," by C. V. Milligen; "Criticism of 10 to I increase in Barrel Day prices," by J. L. Tweedy; "Barrel Day versus One Day Costs," by R. H.Johnson and A. W. Foster; "Concentration Process in Sandstone," by R. H. Johnson; Work of California State Mining Bureau, by R. P. McLaughlin; "Origin of the Domes of Central Kansas," by Eliot Blackwelder; "The Relation of Granite to Oil Production in Kansas," by R. C. Moore and F. L. Martin; "The outcrop of basic igneous rock in north central Kansas," by R. C. Moore and W. P. Haynes; "Pennsylvanian sedimentation around Healdton Island, Okla., by J. W. Merritt; "Pre-Pennsylvanian development in Oklahoma," by C. W. Shannon; "Recent oil developments in West Virginia," by D. A. Reger; "Notes on the Canadian Foothills Belt," by Wesley Purdy; "The New Trenton development," by F. W. DeWolf; "Blue Sky Laws of Illinois," by F. W. DeWolf; "Development of oil and gas in Wyoming," by C. H. Wegemann; "Petroleum investigations in Switzerland," by Edward Bloesch; "The Petroleum Production Engineer and His Relation to Future Production," by A. W. Ambrose; "The oil shale industry, with an outline of methods of distillation," by Earl A. Trager.

The following papers were read by title: "Types of structure. in Chaves County, Texas," J. W. Merritt; "Problems of production and methods of solving them," T. E. Swigart; "Oil shales of Wyoming," E. F. Schram; "Recent oil developments in California," R. B. Moran; "Some geological problems in oil and gas recovery in Kentucky," by W. R. Jillson; "Probability of oil and gas in Montana," by J. P. Rowe.

The following officers were elected for the coming year: President, Wallace E. Pratt, Chief Geologist, Humble Oil Company, Fort Worth, Texas; Vice-President, Alex W. McCoy, Consulting Geologist, Bartlesville, Oklahoma; Secretary-Treasurer, Charles E. Decker, Associate Professor, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.