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of ithe Paris Museum of Natural History, gave 

 the presidential address on the "War against 

 the enemies of plants." M. Desgrez presided, 

 and M. Viala was chosen to succeed him in the 

 presidency. The meeting next year will be at 

 Bordeaux. 



M. Bergson presided at the two sessions of 

 the Committee on Intellectual Cooperatiom of 

 the League of Nations that met at Geneva on 

 August 1. Reports were presented by M. de 

 Reynold, of Switzerland, and Mme. Curie, of 

 France, respectively, on the situaition in Aus- 

 tria and in Poland. The question of interna- 

 tional cooperation in bibliography was dis- 

 cussed and a committee was appointed consist- 

 ing of M. J. Destree, of Belgium, M. de 

 Reynold, Miss Bonnevie, of Norway, and Mme. 

 Curie. 



The astronomere who are visiting Australia 

 for the eclipse were given a civic welcome on 

 August 8 loy the Lord Mayor of Melbourne and 

 afterwards entertained at luncheon by the fed- 

 eral ministers at the Federal Parliament. The 

 prime minister expressed the willingness of the 

 government to afford the utmost facilities to 

 ensure the success of the expedition. Dr. 

 W. W. Campbell, director of the Lick Observa- 

 tory, replying, said tha/t Australia had shown 

 greater interest and rendered more assistance 

 than the government of any other country for 

 previous expeditions with which he had been 

 associated. 



Henry Edward Pellew, of Washington, has 

 become Lord Pellew, the sixth viscount of 

 Exmouth, at the age of ninety-four years. The 

 title will devolve on Dr. Charles E. Pellew, of 

 New York, formerly associate pixjfessor of 

 chemistry in Columbia University. 



Dr. Robert Aitken, aStivDuomer, Lick Ob- 

 servatory, has returned from the meeting of 

 the International Astronomical Union which 

 was held from May 2 to May 10 at Rome. Dr. 

 Aitken acted as chairman of the commission on 

 double stars at the international meeting and 

 was re-appointed chairman of the commission 

 for the period 1922-25. He was also made a 

 member of the commission on positions and 

 orbits of minor planets, satellites and comets. 

 Dr. Aitken took part in the meetings in cele- 



bration of the centenary of the Royal Astro- 

 nomical Society of London which were held 

 from May 28 to May 31 in London. While 

 there Dr. Aitken had the honor of presenting 

 the Bruce Gold Medal of the Astronomical 

 Society of the Pacific to the astronomer royal. 

 Sir Frank Watson Dyson. 



Dr. J. S. KiNGSLEY, who has been on leave 

 of absence for the past year, has retired from 

 the faculty of the University of Illinois with 

 the title lof professor emex'itus of zoology. His 

 address for the future is 2,500 Cedar Street, 

 Berkeley, California. 



Professor G. A. Miller, of the University 

 of Illinois, has recently been elected an hon- 

 orary member of the Indian Mathematical 

 Society. This society was organized in 1907 

 and its membership list, dated 1922, includes, 

 about 200 names. It then had only one hon- 

 orary member. 



Professor L. Bairstovf has been elected 

 chairman of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 

 succession to Lieutenant Colonel M. O'Gorman. 



A. W. Ambrose, 'chief ipetroleum technolo- 

 gist of the United States Bureau of Mines, has 

 been appointed assistant director of the bureau, 

 to fill the vacancy created by the i-esignation of 

 B. A. Holbrook, who has accepted the deanship 

 of the mining school at Pennsylvania State 

 College. The duties of F. J. Bailey, assistant 

 to the director, have been increased by assign- 

 ing to him virtually all the business matters of 

 the bureau fonnerly handled by the assistant 

 director. 



Colonel Delcambrb has been appointed 

 director of the French Meteorological Of&ce. 



Harold E. Babcock, of Cornell University, 

 has resigned his position in the department of 

 farm management and agricultural economics 

 of the College of Agriculture to become man- 

 ager of the Cooperative Grange League Fed- 

 eration Exchange. 



Dr. D. I. Andronescu, of Emerson^ New 

 Jersey, has accepted a position with the De- 

 partment of Agriculture of Romania as chief 

 of the department of plant breeding. His ad- 

 dress will be Statiunea Agronomica, Baneasa- 

 Bueuresti, Romania, 



