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cesser, given the honorary title for life of record- 

 ing secretary emeritus, and that he be so desig- 

 nated in ail official lists of the officers of the 

 academy. 



THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



The annual meeting of the academy for tie 

 election of officers, fellows and honorary mem- 

 bers, the presentation of reports and the trans- 

 action of other business was held at the Delta 

 Kappa Epsilon Club, 30 West 44th Street, 

 on the evening of Monday, December 20. 



The report of the corresponding secretary 

 showed that there are now upon the rolls of 

 the Academy 31 Honorary Members and 102 

 Corresponding Members. The death of the 

 following Honorary and Corresponding Mem- 

 bers was recorded with regret: 



Sir Norman Lockyer, honorary member since 1880. 



Professor WiUielm Pf effer, honorary member since 

 1898. 



Professor Wilhelm Wundt, honorary member since 

 1904. 



Professor Greorge Macloskie, corresponding mem- 

 ber since 1876. 



Professor Joseph Pason Iddings, corresponding 

 member since 1896. 



There have been held during the year 7 

 business meetings and 26 sectional meetings at 

 which 40 stated papers were presented. The 

 membership of the academy is 575, which in- 

 cludes 415 active members, 24 associate mem- 

 bers, 109 life members, 8 patrons, 1 benefactor 

 and 18 non-resident members, of whom 148 

 are fellows. 



Eecord was made of the loss by death of 15 

 members. 



The treasurer reported that the receipts for 

 the fiscal year were $7,962.86, and the ex- 

 penditures were $7,386.98. The investments 

 of the academy amount to $53,198.88, held to 

 cover the various funds. The details of the 

 treasurer's report will be published in the 

 Annals. 



The academy elected Baron Gerard De Geer 

 of Stockholm, Sweden, an Honorary Member. 

 Fifteen members of the academy were elected 

 to fellowship. 



The following officers for 1921 were elected: 



President: Edward L. Thorndike. 

 Vice-Presidents: WUliam J. Gies, Charles L. Bris- 

 tol, James P. Kemp, Eobert S. Woodworth. 

 Becording Secretary: Ralph W. Tower. 

 Corresponding Secretary: Henry E. Crampton. 

 Treasurer: John Tatlook. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



There is printed in the present issue of 

 Science the presidential address before the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science given this week by Dr. Simon 

 Flexner. We hope to print next week an ac- 

 count of the meeting and that the succeeding 

 issues of Science will contain the official ad- 

 dresses given at Chicago and accounts of the 

 meetings of the sections and of the affiliated 

 societies. 



Dr. William W. Coblentz, of the Bureau 

 of Standards, has been awarded the Janssen 

 Medal of the Paris Academy of Sciences for 

 his work on measuring the heat of the stars. 



During the past month Dr. Franz Boas, 

 professor of anthropology at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has been elected an honorary member 

 of the Societe des Americanistes of Paris and 

 of the Folklore Society of London. He has 

 also been elected corresponding member of the 

 Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin, and 

 has received the gold medal of the Anthro- 

 pological Society of Berlin. 



Dr. Ealph S. Lillie has resigned the pro- 

 fessorship of biology at Clark University to 

 .accept the position of biologist, department of 

 .pure science, Nela Research Laboratories, l^a- 

 tional Lamp Works of the General Electric 

 ,Company, ISTela Park, Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. 

 (Lillie will retain his connection with the Ma- 

 ,rine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, and 

 will carry on his work there in the summers as 

 usual. 



Paul M. Rea, president of The Ameri- 

 can Association of Museums, who has now be- 

 pome director of the new Cleveland Museum 

 of Natural History, will be succeeded by Miss 

 ,Laura M. Bragg in the directorship of The 

 .Charleston Museum, South Carolina. 



