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American Institute of Chemical Engineers : President, L. 

 H. Baekeland; Vice-Presidents, Eugene Haanel, T. B. Wagner, M. 

 C. Whittaker; Secretary, John C. Olsen; Treasurer, F. W. Frerichs; 

 Auditor, G. W. Thompson ; Directors: A, C. Langmuir, H. S. Miner 

 and A. Bement. 



Harvey Medical Society: President, Frederic S. Lee; Vice- 

 President, Wm. H. Park; Treasurer, Edward K. Dunham; Secre- 

 tary, Haven Emerson; Additional members of the Executive Com- 

 mittee: S. J. Meltzer, Graham Lusk, W. G. MacCallum. 



American Association for Cancer Research : President, 

 E. E. Tyzzer; Vice-President, Leo Loeb; Secretary, S. B. Wolbach, 



Miscellaneous. Colonel Wm. P. Gorgas has been elected 

 President of the Ninth Congress of American Physicians and Sur- 



geons, which meets in Washington in May, 191 3. 



M. Lippman has been elected President, and Professor Guyon 

 vice- President of the Paris Academy of Sciences. 



Prof. Edward C. Pickering has been elected President of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science. 



Dr. Victor C. Vaughan presided at the annual Michigan Health 

 Officers' Convention, held in Ann Arbor, January 30-31. 



Dr. W. D. Bigelow was elected councillor-at-large (for three 

 years) of the American Chemical Society. 



Special committees. National committee for mental hygiene. 

 The National Committee for Mental Hygiene has received an anony- 

 mous gift of $50,000, which enables the committee to proceed effect- 

 ively with its plans to improve the conditions affecting the mentally 

 afflicted. At its fourth annual meeting in New York, on February 

 17, the committee elected officers, among them Lewellys F. Barker, 

 President ; William H. Welch, vice-president ; George Blumer, chair- 

 man of the executive committee; Russell H. Chittenden, chairman 

 of the finance committee. 



Commission on resuscitation. At the request of the National 

 Electric Light Association, a Commission on Resuscitation has been 

 organized. Its chairman is Prof. Walter B. Cannon. Drs. Yan- 

 dell Henderson, George W. Crile and S. J. Meltzer represent the 

 American Medical Association. Prof. E. A. Spitzka is a member 



