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at the recent anniversary meeting — 

 Dr. William H. Welch, professor of 

 pathology at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, president; Dr. Charles D. Wal- 

 cott, secretary of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, vice-president; and Dr. A. L. 

 Day, director of the Geophysical Labo- 

 ratory of the Carnegie Institution, 

 home secretary — promise an adminis- 

 tration under which the advice of the 

 academy may be of service to the 

 government. 



On the occasion of the fiftieth anni- 

 versary there has been published a his- 

 tory of the first half century of the 

 academy, prepared and edited by Dr. 

 Frederick W. True, assistant secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution under 

 the charge of a committee of which Dr. 

 Arnold Hague, the home secretary, was 

 chairman. From this volume we take 

 the portraits of the seven distinguished 

 men of science who have successively 

 been presidents of the academy. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 



We record with regret the death of 

 Dr. Lester F. Ward, professor of so- 

 ciology at Brown University, formerly 

 paleontologist of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, and of Professor William Mor- 

 ris Fontaine, for thirty-one years pro- 

 fessor of natural history and geology 

 in the University of Virginia. 



Under the present admistration Dr. 

 B. T. Galloway, chief of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, has been appointed as- 

 sistant secretary of agriculture and 

 Professor Adolph C. Miller, who holds 

 the chair of economics and commerce 

 in the University of California, first 

 assistant secretary of the interior. Dr. 

 Hugh M. Smith has been promoted to 

 be commissioner of fisheries. Dr. John 

 Bassett Moore, professor of interna- 

 tional law and diplomacy in Columbia 

 University, has been appointed coun- 

 sellor to the department of state. 



The National Academy of Sciences 

 has elected the following new members : 

 Henry Andrews Bumstead, professor of 

 physics, Yale University; L. E. Dick- 

 son, professor of mathematics, Univer- 



sity of Chicago; Ross G. Harrison, pro- 

 fessor of comparative anatomy, Yale 

 University; Gilbert Newton Lewis, pro- 

 fessor of physical chemistry, University 

 of California; A. O. Leuschner, pro- 

 fessor of astronomy, University of Cali- 

 fornia; Lafayette B. Mendel, professor 

 of physiological chemistry, Yale Uni- 

 versity; George H. Parker, professor of 

 zoology, Harvard University; L. V. 

 Pirsson, professor of geology, Yale 

 University; Edward B. Rosa, chief 

 physicist, Bureau of Standards; Erwin 

 F. Smith, pathologist in charge, Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



The American Philosophical Society 

 at its stated meeting on April 19 

 elected the following members: Dr. 

 George F. Atkinson, professor of bot- 

 any, Cornell University; Dr. Charles 

 Edwin Bennett, professor of the Latin 

 language and literature, Cornell Uni- 

 versity; Dr. John Henry Comstock, 

 professor of entomology and inverte- 

 brate zoology, Cornell University; 

 Luther P. Eisenhart, professor of 

 mathematics, Princeton University; 

 George Washington Goethals, U.S.A., 

 chief of engineers of the Panama 

 Canal; William Crawford Gorgas, as- 

 sistant surgeon general, U.S.A.; Dr. 

 Ross Granville Harrison, professor of 

 comparative anatomy, Yale University; 

 George Augustus Hulett, professor of 

 physical chemistry, Princeton Univer- 

 sity; Dr. Clarence Erwin McClung, pro- 

 fessor of zoology, University of Penn- 

 sylvania; John Dyneley Prince, pro- 

 fessor of Semitic languages, Columbia 

 University; Dr. Samuel Rea, president 

 of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; 

 Dr. Henry Norris Russell, professor of 

 astronomy, Princeton University; Wit- 

 mer Stone, curator of ornithology of 

 the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 

 Sciences. Three foreign members were 

 elected as follows: Sir Arthur John 

 Evans, keeper of the Ashmolean Mu- 

 seum, Oxford; Sir Joseph Larmor, Lu- 

 casian professor of mathematics, Cam- 

 bridge; and Dr. Arthur Schuster, sec- 

 retary of the Royal Society, London. 



