November 26, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES MEETING AT CHICAGO 



The following- national scientific societies 

 will meet at Chicago during convocation week 

 in affiliation with the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. The name 

 of the president is followed by the name of 

 the secretary. 



American Mathematical Society: Dr. F. N. Cole 



secretary. 

 Mathematical Association of America: Dr. David 



Eugene Smith, Dr. W. D. Cairns. 

 American Astronomical Society: Dr. Prank ScHes- 



inger. Dr. Joel Stebbins. 

 American Physical Society: Professor J. S. Ames, 



Dr. Dayton C. Miller. 

 American Meteorological Society: Dr. Robert 



DeC. Ward, Dr. Chas. E. Brooks. 

 American Metric Association: Mr. Howard Eich- 



ards, Jr., sec'y. 

 Optical Society of America: Dr. F. K. Eichtmyer, 



Dr. P. D. Eoote. 

 Geological Society of America: Dr. I. C. Morgan, 



Dr. E. O. Hovey. 

 Association of American Geographers: Dr. Her- 

 bert E. Gregory, Dr. Richard E. Dodge. 

 National Council of Geography Teachers: Pro- 

 fessor E. H. Whitbeck, Professor Geo. J. Miller. 

 Paleontological Society of America: Dr. P. B. 



Loomis, Dr. R. S. Bassler. 

 American Society of Naturalists: Dr. Jacques 



Loeb, Dr. A. Franklin ShuU. 

 American Society of Zoologists: Dr. Oilman A. 



Drew, Dr. W. C. Allee. 

 Entomological Society of America: Dr. J. M. 



Aldrieh, Sec'y. 

 American Association of Economic Entomologists: 



Dr. Wihnon Newell, Mr. A. F. Burgess. 

 American Microscopical Society: Professor T. W. 



Galloway, Dr. Paul S. Welch. 

 Wilson Ornithological Club: Dr. E. M. Strong, 



Mr. Albert F. Ganier. 

 Botanical Society of America: Dr. N. L. Britton, 



Professor J. E. Schramm. 

 American Phytopathological Society: Dr. W. A. 



Orton, Dr. G. E. Lyman. 

 Ecological Society of America: Dr. Barrington 



Moore, Professor A. O. Weese. 

 American Society for Horticulture Science: W. H. 



Alderman, Dr. C. P. Close. 

 Association of Official Seed Analysts: Edgar 



Brown, A. L. Stone. 



American Nature Study Society: J. A. Drushel, 



Mrs. A. B. Comstock. 

 American Physiological Society: Professor W. P. 



Lombard, Dr. C. W. Greene. 

 American Society of Biological Chemists: Dr. 



Stanley R. Benedict, Professor Victor C. Myers. 

 American Society for Experimental Pathology: Dr. 



William H. Park, Dr. H. T. Karsner. 

 American Society for Pharmacology and Experi- 

 mental Therapeutics: Dr. A. S. Loevenhart, Dr. 



E. D. Brown. 

 American Society of Bacteriologists: Dr. Chas. 



Krumwiede, Dr. A. Parker Hitchens. 

 American Anthropological Association: Dr. Clark 



Wissler, Dr. Alfred M. Tozzer. 

 American Folk-Lore Society: Dr. Charles Pea- 

 body, Sec 'y. 

 American Psychological Association: Dr. Shepherd 



I. Franz, Dr. E. G. Boring. 

 American Association of University Professors : 



Professor Edward Capps, Professor H. W. 



Tyler. 

 Society of Sigma Xi: Dr. C. E. MeClung, Dr. H. 



B. Ward. 

 Gamma Alpha Graduate Fraternity: Dr. J. E. 



Musselman, Dr. A. H. Wright. 

 Gamma Sigma Delta: Dr. C. H. Eokles, Dr. L. H. 



Pammel. 

 Phi Kappa Phi Fraternity: Dr. J. S. Stevens, Dr. 



L. H. Pammel. 



CENTENARY OF THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF 

 THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI 



On Saturday, November 6, the Medical 

 College celebrated the centennial of its found- 

 ing. One hundred years ago the Medical 

 College of Ohio received its charter from the 

 state with Dr. Daniel Drake, whose name is 

 written deeply in the annals of American 

 medical history, as its first president. The 

 Medical College of the University was the 

 first medical school established west of the 

 Alleghenies and is the third oldest in the 

 country, Harvard and Pennsylvania aloue 

 taking precedence. 



The college, then called the Medical College 

 of Ohio, had its beginning in a little room 

 above a drug store on Main street. Dr. 

 Daniel Drake, the, father of the college, grad- 

 uated the first class of twenty-four students 

 from this little room in 1821. 



In 1896 the Ohio College became the med- 



