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(Members are urged to send in for, this column any notes of interest concerning themselves or their fellow-members.) Members and guests who registered at Institute headquarters during the period Aug. 10 to Sept. 10, 1915: Everett L. Booth, New York, N. Y. Raymond B. Ladoo, Cambridge, Mass. T. E. Sturtevant, Dover, N. J. Henry A. Tobelman, Ajo, Ariz. C. A: Filteau, New York, N. Y. R. B.Tinsley, B. Tinsley; Venezuela. Guy C. Riddell, Helena; Mont. ; E. H. Hamilton, Norfolk, Va. Joseph Leiner, New. York; N. Y. M. Yoshimura, Tokyo, Japan. Alfred W. G. Wilson, Ottawa, Canada. Van H. Manning has been appointed Director of the U.. S., Bureau of Mines, to succeed the, late, Dr. Joseph A. Holmes. Mr. Manning was Assistant Director of the Bureau. 0. M. Lewyn, formerly Mine. Superintendent for the Braden Copper Co., has accepted the position of Assistant Mine Manager with the Union Minière de Haut Katanga of South Africa.