SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The organization meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists 

 was held in the New National Museum, Washington, D. C, April 

 3 and 4, 19 19, with a charter membership of over two hundred and 

 fifty, of whom sixty were in attendance at the meeting. The follow- 

 ing officers were elected: C. Hart Merriam, President; E. W. 

 Nelson, First Vice-President; Wilfred H. Osgood, Second Vice- 

 President; H. H. Lane, Recording Secretary; Harley H. T. Jackson, 

 Corresponding Secretary; Walter P. Taylor, Treasurer. The Coun- 

 cilors are: Glover M. Allen, R. M. Anderson, J. Grinnell, M. W. 

 Lyon, W. D. Matthew, John C. Merrl\m, Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., 

 T. S. Palmer, Edward A. Preble, Wither vStone, and N. Hollister, 

 Editor. 



Committees were appointed on: Life histories of mammals, C. C. 

 Adams, Chairman; Study of game mammals, Charles Sheldon, Chair- 

 man; Anatomy and phytogeny, W. K. Gregory, Chairman; and Bibli- 

 ography, T. S. Palmer, Chairman. 



The policy of the society will be to devote its attention to the study 

 of mammals in a broad way, including life histories, habits, relations 

 to plants and animals, evolution, paleontology, anatomy, and other 

 phases. 



Publication of the Journal of Mammalogy, in which popular as well 

 as technical matter will be presented, will start this 3'ear. 



At the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences held in Wash- 

 ington on April 28-30, 1919, the following fifteen persons were elected 

 to membership: Prof. Joseph Barrell, geologist, Yale University; 

 Dr. Gary Nathan Calkins, zoologist, Columbia University; Dr. 

 Heber Doust Curtis, astronomer, Lick Observatory; Mr. Gano 

 Dunn, electrical engineer. New York City; Dr. Lawrence Joseph 

 Henderson, biologist, Harvard University; Dr. Reid Hunt, pharma- 

 cologist. Harvard University; Prof. Treat Baldwin Johnson, chemist, 

 Yale University; Prof. Winthrop John Osterhout, botanist. Harvard 

 University; Prof. Frederick HanlEy Seares, astronomer, Mt. Wilson 

 Observatory, Cahfornia; Dr. William Albert Setchell, botanist. 

 University of California; Maj. Gen. George Owen Souier, electrical 

 engineer. Signal Corps, U. S. A.; Prof. Augustus Trowbridge, 

 physicist, Princeton University; Prof. Oswald Veblen, mathematician, 

 Princeton University; Dr. Ernest Julius Wilczynski, mathematician. 

 University of Chicago; Prof. Edwin Bidwell Wilson, physicist, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. C. G. Abbot was elected 

 Home Secretary of the Academy. 



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