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ciation, the American Forestry Association, 

 American Ifewspaper Publishers' Association, 

 INational Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion, Southern Pine Association, Western 

 Forestry and Conservation Association, Amer- 

 ican Paper and Pulp Association, United 

 States Forest Service, Society for the Pro- 

 tection of Ifew Hampshire Forests, national 

 forest fire protection committee. 



RESOLUTIONS OF THE NATIONAL RESEARCH 



COUNCIL ON THE DEATH OF HENRY 



A. BUMSTEAD 



As has been recorded in Science Dr. Henry 

 A. Bumstead, professor of physics and director 

 of the Sloane Physical Laboratory at Yale 

 University, and for the past half year on leave 

 from the university as 'chairman of the I7a- 

 tional Research Council of Washington, D. C, 

 died suddenly on the train on the night of De- 

 cember 31, while returning from Chicago, 

 where he had been in attendance at the meet- 

 ings of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science and affiliated socieies. 

 The following resolution was unanimously 

 adopted at a special meeting of the Interim 

 Committee of the National Research Council, 

 held on January 3, 1921: 



1 Sesolved, That the National Research Council 

 learns of the death of Dr. Henry A. Bumstead, 

 chairman of the council, with great sorrow and 

 profound sense of loss. Dr. Bumstead in his asso- 

 ciation with the council had revealed to its officers 

 and members not only a high capacity for admin- 

 istration, and a most loyal fidelity to the aims and 

 work of the council, but also a sweetness of dispo- 

 sition and personal attractiveness which had won 

 for him the devoted and affectionate regard of all 

 of his colleagues in the council. In his death the 

 council and the scientific world lose a man of most 

 eminent attainments, highest character, and lovable 

 personality. 



i The National Eesearch Council extends to the 

 bereaved wife and family its deepest sympathy and 

 condolence and wishes to express to them its full 

 appreciation of the great value of the services 

 which Dr. Bimistead rendered it in the period of 

 his association with it and the great loss which it 

 suffers by his untimely death. But may we all 

 remember that "that life is long that answers 

 life's great ends." 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith, former provost of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, has been 

 elected president of the American Chemical 

 Society. Dr. Smith was president of the so- 

 ciety in 1898. Announcement is also made 

 that the ballots of the 15,500 members of the 

 society resulted in the election of the follow- 

 ing other officers : Directors, George D. Eosen- 

 garten, of Philadelphia, and Dr. Henry P. 

 Talbot, of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. Councilors, Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, 

 of the Bureau of Chemistry ; Dr. Allen Rogers, 

 of Pratt Institute; Dr. Lauder W. Jones, of 

 Princeton University, and Harrison E. Howe, 

 of the National Eesearch Council. 

 I Professor C. E. Allen, of the department 

 of botany of the University of Wisconsin, was 

 elected president of the Botanical Society of 

 America at the recent meeting in Chicago. 

 He was also named editor-in-chief of The 

 American Journal of Botany. 

 I The Perkin medal of the American Section 

 of the Society of Chemical Industry has been 

 awarded to Dr. Willis E. Whitney, research 

 director of the General Electric Company. 

 , A DISTINGUISHED service medal was awarded 

 at the annual meeting of Gamma Sigma Delta, 

 honorary agricultural society, held in Chicago, 

 to Professor Stephen M. Babcock, inventor of 

 the Babcock milk test and professor emeritus 

 of agricultural chemistry at the University of 

 Wisconsin. Professor Babcock was also made 

 an honorary member of the organization, 

 i Major Lawrence Martin, the Gilman Me- 

 morial lecturer in Geography at Johns Hop- 

 kins University for 1920-21, has been demob- 

 ilized after three and one half years' service in 

 the United States Army, and has entered the 

 State Department in Washington. By order 

 of the secretary of war, after selection by Gen- 

 eral Pershing and a board of officers, Major 

 Martin has been placed on the General Stail 

 eligible list. 



Professor Edward S. Morse, of Peabody 

 Academy and Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 

 has been elected an honorary member of the 

 East Asiatic Society. 



