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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Professor Franz Boas, 

 Vice-president of the Section for Anthropology. 



few years of its history a position in 

 scientific research rivaled only by Har- 

 vard and Columbia. 



The four vice-presidents of the asso- 

 ciation whose portraits are given are 

 Dr. Ludwig Hektoen, professor of 

 pathology in the University of Chicago 

 and director of the Memorial Institute 

 for Infectious Diseases, known for his 

 work in pathological anatomy and bac- 

 teriology; Dr. E. B. Wilson, professor 

 of zoology in Columbia University, 

 eminent for his contributions to cytol- 

 ogy and experimental morphology ; 

 Dr. Franz Boas, of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, whose researches have given him 

 the leading place among anthropolo- 

 gists in the country, and Dr. Henry P. 

 Talbot, one of those who has made the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 a great center for chemical research as 

 well as instruction. When the Amer- 

 ican Association can secure officers 

 such as those mentioned here, we can 

 with satisfaction place our working 

 men of science beside those of any other 

 nation. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS 



We regret to record the death of Mr. 

 Morris K. Jesup, president of the Am- 



Professor Henry P. Talbot, 

 Vice-president of the Section of Chemistry. 



erican Museum of Natural History. 

 By his will $1,000,000 is given to the 

 museum. Professor Henry F. Osborn, 

 curator of vertebrate paleontology and 

 professor in Columbia University, has 

 been elected president of the institu- 

 tion to succeed Mr. Jesup. 



The hundredth anniversary of the 

 birth of Charles Darwin, which oc 

 curred on February 12, 1909, and the 

 fiftieth anniversary of the publication 

 of the origin of species, which occurred 

 on November 24, 1859, will be cele- 

 brated by the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science at its 

 Baltimore meeting a year hence. Cam- 

 bridge University also proposes an ade- 

 quate celebration. 



Professor Reginald W. Brock, 

 professor of geology in the School of 

 Mining, Kingston, has been appointed 

 director of the Geological Survey of 

 Canada. — M. Bailloud, of the Toulouse 

 Observatory, has been appointed di- 

 rector of the Paris Observatory. — M. 

 Henri Becquerel has been elected presi- 

 dent of the Paris Academy of Sciences, 

 and is succeeded in the vice-presidency 

 bv M. Bouchard. 



