SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS'

MR. JOHN T. REID will be at his office in Lovelock, Nevada, during the summer.

O. E. MEINZER, of the U. S. Geological Survey, returned to Washington in April. He was investigating the ground water problems of the islands under a coöperative agreement between the Territory of Hawaii and the U. S. Geological Survey.

C. WYTHE COOK is on furlough from the U. S. Geological Survey for the purpose of oil exploration in Columbia.

A. C. BOYLE, JR., professor of mining engineering and economic geology of the University of Wyoming, spent the Easter vacation in and around Salt Lake City, with a class of ten students. Visits were made to Park City, Bingham and Alta, and studies were made along the west face of the Wasatch Mountains as far north as Ogden, Utah.

ROBERT T. HILL has been reëlected president of the Southwestern Geological Society.

HOYT S. GALE, of the U. S. Geological Survey and Bureau of Mines, has taken a five months' furlough for oil work in Bolivia.

O. B. HOPKINS has left the U. S. Geological Survey, and has entered private employment as an oil geologist.

JOSEPH T. SINGEWALD, JR., professor of economic geology at the Johns Hopkins University, has returned from Peru, where he has been engaged in geologic investigations during the past few months.

C. J. DEAN, who left the U. S. Geological Survey to enter the employ of the Sinclair Oil Co., is in Bogota.

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.

NELSON H. DARTON has been given leave of absence from the U. S. Geological Survey, and is making private oil investigations in northern Mexico.

HORACE V. WINCHELL, of Minneapolis, and Fred Searls, Jr., of San Francisco, are at Wallace, Idaho, in connection with the litigation between the Federal Mining & Smelting Co. and the Hecla Mining Co.

H. D. MISER began his duties as professor in the department of geology of the University of Arkansas on May 1.

E. L. BRUCE has resigned from the Canadian Geological Survey, and will be engaged in work for the Whitehall Petroleum Co. during the coming summer. Next fall he will go to Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, as professor of mineralogy.

GENERAL AND MRS. TASKER H. BLISS have announced the engagement of their daughter, Eleanor F. Bliss, to Dr. Adolph Knopf.

J. P. D. HULL, formerly assistant state geologist of Georgia, is now with the Louisiana Oil Refining Corporation, of Shreveport, La.

W. E. McCOURT, professor of geology at Washington University, has been appointed Dean of the Schools of Engineering and Architecture at that institution.

A. C. BOYLE, JR., formerly professor of geology, mining, and metallurgy at the University of Wyoming School of Mines, has accepted a position as geologist for the Union Pacific Railroad Co., beginning June 15th.

ADOLPH KNOPF, of the U. S. Geological Survey, has been appointed associate professor in physical geology and petrology at Yale University to succeed the late Professor Louis V. Pirsson.

F. H. MOFFITT, of the U. S. Geological Survey, left May 17 for Alaska to carry on investigations in the region west of Cook Inlet with special reference to the occurrence of oil.

A. C. VEATCH, of the Sinclair Oil Co., is in Costa Rica.

H. A. C. JENISON has been placed in charge of the copper division of the Mineral Resources Branch of the U. S. Geological Survey.

BAILEY WILLIS and C. K. Leith were elected members of the National Acadamy of Sciences.

J. S. DILLER, of the U. S. Geological Survey, is in the Apache and San Carlos Indian Reservations, Arizona, to undertake Survey field work in asbestos areas.

W. P. WOODRING, recently employed by the Sinclair Oil Corporation in Panama and Costa Rica, was appointed associate geologist on the U. S. Geological Survey.

F. J. KATZ has been furloughed from the U. S. Geological Survey to accept the position of expert special agent in charge of mines and quarries in the Bureau of the Census, for the 14th Census Statistics.

CHESTER R. THOMAS is geologist for the Amerada Petroleum Corporation of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and in charge of their geologic work in Kansas.

E. F. BURCHARD is on a ten-months' furlough from the U. S. Geological Survey, engaged in geologic work in the Philippines.

C. W. COOKE, of the U. S. Geological Survey, who is temporarily with the Tropical Oil Company arrived at Barrnaca Bermeja, Colombia.

K. F. MATHER has returned to the United States after a six-months' trip to Bolivia where he was engaged in petroleum geology.

H. F. CROOKS is now assistant professor of geology at the Colorado School of Mines.

EDWIN B. HOPKINS, consulting geologist, has opened an office in New York City at 512 Fifth Avenue.

W. S. KEW has resigned from the U. S. Geological Survey to make geological explorations in Columbia for the Vacuum Oil Co.

IRVINE E. STEWART and Fred S. WRIGHT have opened an office for consulting work in the Bank-Electric Bldg., Lewistown, Mont.

JULIAN D. SEARS, of the U. S. Geological Survey, was in Kentucky and West Virginia recently to secure data regarding the quality of the coal and the eastern boundary of the oil and gas fields.

H. D. MISER is filling until the end of the college term, the position left vacant by Professor Drake in the department of mining and geology of the University of Arkansas.

D. E. WINCHESTER has returned to the U. S. Geological Survey to complete his manuscripts on "Oil Shales of the Rocky Mountain Region."

F. B. LANEY, of the U. S. Geological Survey, has been in Salt Lake City, Utah, writing his report on the Seven Devils District, Idaho.

PHILIP S. SMITH, of the U. S. Geological Survey, has returned from a visit to the alkali lakes and sulphur deposits of western Texas.

EUGENE STEBINGER has been granted eight months' leave of absence from June 1, to do geological work for the Carter Oil Co. in southern Bolivia.

A. H. BROOKS recently went to Seattle Washington, where he will act as chairman of Secretary Payne's advisory committee on Alaskan conditions.

W. C. PHALEN recently of the U. S. Geological Survey has accepted a position with the Solvay Process Company of Syracuse, N. Y.

VICTOR G. HILLS, of Denver, Colorago, has been engaged as consulting engineer for the old Dolly Varden mine, Mount Bross, Col.

R. W. STONE, of the U. S. Geological Survey, is visiting magnesite deposits in California and Washington and phosphate mines in Montana and Idaho.

CHARLES A. MITKE has been in the Clifton-Morenci district on professional work for the Arizona Copper Co.

ALBERT D. BROKAW, formerly associate professor of economic geology and mineralogy at the University of Chicago, has opened an office in New York for the practice of his profession as consulting geologist.

J. C. Hoyt returned to Washington from Hawaii in April.

A. J. Collier, of the U. S. Geological Survey, assisted by M. G. Gulley, is examining the Osage oil field in northeastern Wyoming. Their address is Newcastle, Wyoming.

J. B. REESIDE and C. E. Dobbin, of the U. S. Geological Survey, are continuing work begun last summer in the San Juan coal field, near Aztec, New Mexico.

PROFESSOR C. A. BONINE, of the School of Mines, State College of Pennsylvania, will make field examinations in Wyoming this summer in connection with oil land classification for the U. S. Geological Survey.

FREDERICK R. WEEKES, of New York, and J. J. Stubenford, of Long Beach, California, have been making an examination of the Naildriver Mine at Park City, Utah, for Eastern interests.

VAN H. MANNING resigned on June 1 as director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines to accept the position as director of research with the recently organized American Petroleum Institute.

JOHN STANSFIELD, of Montreal, has gone to New York to take up geological work in connection with oil-field development. His address will be Room 1210, 26 Broadway, New York City.

F. J. S. SUR, petroleum geologist, of San Antonio and Denver is in Montana and Wyoming on inspection trips.