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quate instruction. Of these twelve schools, 

 ten are under the direction of Tale men, and 

 eleven have Yale graduates in their faculties. 

 In addition, forestry is taught as a subject at 

 four other institutions by Yale graduates. In 

 all, forty-one men from this institution are 

 engaged in training professional foresters in 

 America. 



POSTBELLUM REORGANIZATION OF THE IN- 

 TERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON ZOOLOG- 

 ICAL NOMENCLATURE 



The results of the balloting in the reorgani- 

 zation of the International Commission on 

 Zoological Nomenclature have been announced 

 as follows: 



Class of 19S2 {elected in 1913) : 



Dr. J. A. Allen, New York, N. Y. 



Dr. J. A. Bather, London, England. 



M. Ph. Dautzenberg, Paris, France. 



Dr. W. E. Hoyle, Cardiff, Wales. 



Dr. K. Jordan, Tring, Eng. 



Professor H. Kolbe, Berlin, Germany. 

 Class of 19S1S {newly elected, vice Class of 1916) : 



Dr. D. S. Jordan, Palo Alto, Calif. 



Professor A. Handlirsch, Vienna, Austria. 



Professor E. Monticelli, Naples, Italy. 



Dr. E. Simon, Paris, Prance. 



Dr. H. Skiimer, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Dr. L. Stejneger, Washington, D. C. 

 Class of 19S8 {newly elected, vice Class of 1919) : 



Professor C. Apstein, Berlin, Germany. 



Dr. E. J. O. Hartert, Tring, England. 



Dr. Geza Horvath, Budapest, Hungary. 



Professor Louis Roule, Paris, France. 



Dr. C. W. Stiles, Washington, D. C. 



No majority was obtained for the vacancies 

 caused by the death of Commissioner Blanch- 

 ■ard and by the resignation of Commissioner 

 Roule, accordingly a new vote is being taken. 

 Each class consists of six commissioners, 

 elected to serve nine years and selected from 

 the zoological profession of the world at large. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The address of the retiring president of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, to be given at the opening general 

 session at Chicago, on the evening of Decem- 

 ber 27, by Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the 



laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute for 

 Medical Research, will be on " Twenty-Five 

 Years of Bacteriology — A Fragment of Med- 

 ical Research." There will be two other gen- 

 eral sessions at the Chicago meeting planned 

 to be of interest not only to all scientific 

 workers and all members of the association, 

 but also to the general public. One of these 

 will be to an illustrated lecture on " Mount 

 Katmai and the Valley of Ten Thousand 

 Smokes," dealing with the volcanic region of 

 Mount Katmai, Alaska, by Dr. Robert F. 

 Griggs, of the Katmai Expeditions, National 

 Geographic Society. The other will be an 

 illustrated lecture on " High-Power Fluores- 

 cence and Phosphorescence," by Professor 

 Robert W. Wood, of the physics department 

 of the Johns Hopkins University. 



The freedom of the city of Edinburgh, 

 where he was born in 1847, was conferred 

 upon Dr. A. Graham Bell on November 30. 



The authorities of Guayaquil have ordered 

 that a tablet be placed in the bacteriologic 

 laboratory of the Public Health Department 

 of Guayaquil to commemorate the discovery 

 of the causative organism of yellow fever. 

 The inscription reads as follows : " In this 

 laboratory of the Public Health Service, the 

 prominent Japanese bacteriologist, Hideyo 

 Noguchi, member of the Rockefeller Institute, 

 discovered the yellow fever organism, July 24, 

 1919." 



At the annual meeting of the American 

 Ornithological Union held recently in Wash- 

 ington, Dr. Witmer Stone of the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences was elected 

 president. 



HoNORAEY membership in the Cooper Or- 

 nithological Club has been conferred upon 

 Florence Merriam Bailey (Mrs. Vernon 

 Bailey). The present honorary members roll 

 of the club contains seven names: Robert 

 Ridgway, elected in 1905; Henry W. Hen- 

 shaw, 1919; 0. Hart Merriam, 1909; J. A. 

 Allen 1910; Frank Stephens, 1912; Edward 

 W. Nelson, 1917; and Florence Merriam 

 Bailey, 1920. Each of these ornithologists 



