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sorsliips to associate professorships: Eliot 

 Blackwelder, geology; G. M. Jansky, elec- 

 trical engineering, and E. G. Hastings, bac- 

 teriology. Those who were raised from in- 

 structors to assistant professors include George 

 Wagner, zoology; E. E. Jones, soils; C. P. 

 Norgord, agronomy; M. O. Withey, mechan- 

 ics; W. S. Kinney, structural engineering, 

 and A. G. Christie, steam engineering. 



At Princeton University Dr. E. P. Adams, 

 assistant professor of physics, has been elected 

 professor of physics and Dr. L. P. Eisenhart, 

 preceptor in mathematics, professor of mathe- 

 matics. Among the preceptors elected were: 

 P. H. Fogel in philosophy; J. G. Hun, C. E. 

 Maclunes and Elijah Swift, In mathematics. 

 The following instructors were appointed: E. 



B. Baxter, in philosophy ; B. J. Spence, in phys- 

 ics, and C. M. Dennis, in civil engineering. 



In the Johns Hopkins Medical School Dr. 

 Charles D. Snyder, has been appointed associ- 

 ate in physiology. Among the instructors 

 appointed are: Dr. Leonard G. Eowntree, in 

 experimental therapeutics; Dr. Arthur H. 

 Koelker, in physiologic chemistry; Dr. Her- 

 bert M. Evans, in anatomy, and Dr. Milton C. 

 Winternitz, in pathology. 



Dr. John C. Shedd, of Westminister Col- 

 lege, Denver, has been elected professor of 

 physics and head of the department at the 

 University of Pittsburgh. The department will 

 move into the new laboratories now nearing 

 completion. Mr. Will Grant Chambers, for 

 the past five years professor of psychology in 

 the Colorado State Normal School, has been 

 elected to the newly established chair of edu- 

 cation in the same institution. 



Dr. C. H. Shattuck, associate professor of 

 botany and forestry at Clemson College, S. 



C, has recently resig-ned to accept a profes- 

 sorship in the University of Idaho. 



Mr. H. p. Kean, assistant in the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, has been elected professor of 

 mathematics in Eipon College. 



At the University of Cambridge Mr. H. F. 

 Newall, F.R.S., fellow of Trinity College, has 

 been elected to the recently founded professor- 

 ship of astrophysics. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



JOINT MEETINGS OF ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETIES 



To THE Editor of Science: There has been 

 brought to my attention much severe criticism 

 of the fact that at the recent Baltimore meet- 

 ing Section F held meetings parallel with 

 those of the American Society of Zoologists; 

 and many of these criticisms are in such a 

 form as to suggest that the officers of Section 

 F deliberately planned that conflicting ar- 

 rangement. Such is not the case. The offi- 

 cers then responsible for Section F were also 

 members of the American Society of Zoolo- 

 gists and therefore were especially anxious to 

 avoid conflicting meetings. For some weeks 

 preceding the meeting, the secretaries of the 

 American Society of Zoologists and Section F 

 carried on correspondence looking towards a 

 joint program, with the exception of the vice- 

 presidential address before Section F. In the 

 last days before publication of programs, it 

 suddenly became evident that the large num- 

 ber of papers submitted made a joint two-day 

 program as planned impossible, and there was 

 no time for considering possible rearrange- 

 ments of plan. 



The problems of conflicting meetings have 

 now been more carefully considered by the 

 sectional committee of Section F; and with 

 the hope of leading to better organized zoolog- 

 ical meetings, with grouping of papers into 

 natural subdivisions and perhaps sectional 

 meetings when necessary in order to complete 

 the program of papers in two or three days, 

 the committee has voted that if the American 

 Society of Zoologists goes to Boston next De- 

 cember Section F will propose limiting its 

 meetings to the vice-presidential address and 

 business, and leave to the American Society 

 of Zoologists entire charge of the meetings for 

 the reading of zoological papers. Such a 

 proposition has been transmitted to the secre- 

 tary of the American Society of Zoologists 

 for reference to the executive committee of 

 that society. 



The writer has heard only one line of objec- 

 tion to the general plan of this proposition, 

 namely, that Section F has among its mem- 

 bers several hundred who are not eligible to 



