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3. The duties of the executive committee shall 

 be: To act as the representatives of the United 

 States in the International Union of Scientific 

 Radio Telegraphy in the interim between its reg- 

 ular meetings; to organize the American Section, 

 including its technical committees, and to arrange 

 for a meeting of the American iSection shortly pre- 

 ceding each regular meeting of the International 

 Union; to select delegates to the meetings of the 

 Union; and in general to deal with all scientific 

 radio questions involving the participation of the 

 United States. The chairman of the executive com- 

 mittee of the American Section shall be a member 

 (ex ofB-cio) of the Division of Foreign Kelations of 

 the National Research Council. 



The first officers of tlie section are: 



ChaAxraan, Louis W. Austin. 



Corresponding secretary, Augustus Trowbridge, 

 chairman, division of physical sciences, National 

 Eeseareh Council {ex officio). 



Technical secretary, J. H. Bellinger. 



Executive committee, Louis W. Austin, U. S. 

 Navy; Comfort A. Adams, chairman, division of 

 engineering, National Research Council; E. F. W. 

 Alexanderson, Radio Corporation of America; J. 

 H. Dellinger, Bureau of Standards; Alfred H. 

 Goldsmith, editor, Proceedings of the Institute of 

 Radio Engineers; F. B. Jewett, Western Electric 

 Company; A. E. KenneUy, Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology; Major-General G. O. Squier, 

 chief signal ofacer, U. S. A.; Lieutenant-Com- 

 mander A. Hoyt Taylor, U. S. Navy; Augustus 

 Trowbridge. 



The following have been appointed chair- 

 men of technical committees: 



Committee on Static, Dr. Austin. 



Committee on Transmission, Dr. Kennelly. 



Committee on Physics of the Electron Tube, Dr. 

 Jewett. 



Committee on Badio Interference (not yet ap- 

 pointed). 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Dr. C. L. Alsbeeg, chief of the Bureau of 

 Chemistry of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, has been appointed director 

 of the Food Research Institute which is to be 

 established at Stanford University by the 

 Carnegie Corporation. He will assume his 

 new work on July 1. 



Dr. Edward Laurens Mark, for forty-four 

 years instructor and professor of zoology and 

 anatomy at Harvard University, will retire 

 frora active teaching at the close of this year 

 and has been appointed Hersey professor of 

 anatomy emeritus. 



Dr. Egbert F. Ruttan, head of the depart- 

 ment of chemistry, McGill University, has 

 been appointed to succeed Dr. Duncan G. 

 MacCallum, as administrative chairman of 

 the Advisory Council for Scientific and In- 

 dustrial Research in Canada. 



Dr. Charles W. Richardson received the 

 honorary degree of doctor of science recently 

 from the George Washington University. 



The University of Cambridge has awarded 

 its doctorate of laws to Sir Patrick Manson, 

 of the London School of Tropical Medicine, 

 and Dr. Albert Calmette, of the Paris Pasteur 

 Institute. 



Sir W. H. Bragg has been elected president 

 of the London Physical Society. The vice- 

 presidents who have filled the office of presi- 

 dent are Dr. C. Chree, Professor H. L. Callen- 

 dar. Professor R. B. Clifton, Sir Richard 

 Glazebrook, Sir Oliver J. Lodge, Professor 0. 

 H. Lees, Professor A. W. Reinold, Sir Arthur 

 Schuster, Sir J. J. Thomson and Professor 

 C. V. Boys. 



We learn from Nature that the twenty-fifth 

 anniversary of the discovery of the " Zeeman 

 effect " will take place on October 31 next. A 

 coromittee has been formed by scientific men 

 in Holland to mark the occasion by showing 

 their appreciation of the importance of the 

 discovery and of the distinguished services 

 which Professor Zeeman has rendered to sci- 

 ence. It is intended to raise a fund to be 

 placed at his disposal for researches to be con- 

 ducted in the physical laboratory of the Uni- 

 versity of Amsterdam. 



Mr. George L. Harrington recently re- 

 turned from South America, where he had 

 been engaged in private work, and resumed 

 work in the Alaskan Division of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey. He has now returned to 

 South America. 



