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son to succeed Senator Carter Glass >as secre- 

 tary of the treasury. E. T. Meredith, of Iowa, 

 publisher of Successful Farming, a director of 

 the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank and demo- 

 cratic candidate for senator from Iowa in 

 1914, will succeed Mr. Houston as secretary of 

 agriculture. 



Dr. Hugh S. Cummings, of Hampton, Va., 

 has been selected to succeed Dr. Rupert Blue 

 as surgeon general of the Public Health Serv- 

 ice. General Blue lias served two terms as sur- 

 geon general. He was first appointed during 

 the administration of President Taft and was 

 reappointed by President "Wilson. Dr. Blue 

 will remain in the Public Health Service en- 

 gaged in research work. 



Dr. Herman M. Biggs, New York state com- 

 missioner of health, was reappointed by the 

 governor for a term of six years, on January 

 12, and the appointment was unanimously con- 

 firmed by the senate on the same day. 



Professor Graham Lusk, of the Cornell 

 University Medical College, has been elected 

 associate member of the Societe Royale des 

 Sciences Medicales et Naturelles de Bruxelles. 



Dr. W. p. Eudd, of the department of chem- 

 istry of the Medical College of Virginia, Rich- 

 mond, has been elected president of the Ameri- 

 can Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties. 



The council of the Geological Society of 

 Londton has made the following awards: Wol- 

 laston medal to Professor Baron Gerard Jakob 

 de Geer (Stockholm) ; Murchison medal to 

 Mrs. (Dr.) E. M. Shakespear; Lyell medal to 

 Mr. E. Greenly; Wollaston fund to Mr. W. B. 

 E. King; Murchison fund to Dr. D. Woola- 

 cott, and Lyell fund to Dr. J. D. Falconer and 

 Mr. E. S. Pinfold. 



At the recent meeting of the American Psy- 

 chological Association at Harvard University, 

 a committee was appointed to formulate stand- 

 ards for the qualifications and certification of 

 practising psychologists for the United States. 

 The committee consists of Professor Bird T. 

 Baldwin, State University of Iowa, chairmau; 

 Professor Walter F. Dearborn, Harvard Uni- 

 versity; Professor Leta S. HoUingworth, Co- 

 lumbia University; Dr. Helen T. Wooley, Vo- 



cational Bureau, Cincinnati, and Dr. Beards- 

 ley Ruml, The Scott Company, Philadelphia. 

 State departments of education contemplating' 

 the certification of psychologists should con- 

 sult with a member of the committee. New 

 York, Wisconsin, New Jersey and California 

 recently legalized practising psychologists. 



Professor Heber W. Youngken, head of 

 the department of botany and pharmacognosy 

 of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, has 

 accepted the invitation of the board of con- 

 trol of Botanical Abstracts to become editor 

 for the section of pharmaceutical botany and 

 pharmacognosy of this journal. 



Dr. R. E. Rindfusz, formerly an assistant 

 in the chemistry department of Oberlin Col- 

 lege, is now chief chemist in charge of re- 

 search for the American Writing Paper Co., 

 Holyoke, Mass. 



Professor Thomas L. Hankinson has been 

 named ichthyologist of the Roosevelt Wild 

 Life Experiment Station of the New York 

 State College of Forestry, at Syracuse Uni- 

 versity. For the past seventeen years Pro- 

 fessor Hankinson has been engaged in the 

 study of fish in Michigan and Illinois, and 

 for five years has been cooperating with Dr. 

 Adams in the study of the fish in Oneida 

 Lake and the Palisades Interstate Park 

 region; since 1902 he has been teaching bio- 

 logical sciences in the Eastern Illinois Normal 

 School, Charleston, Illinois. 



Word has been received that the well-known 

 Swedish geologist, Professor Gerard De Geer, 

 of Stockholm, expects to visit America in 

 the autumn of 1920, in order to study the 

 glacial geology in the northeastern part of 

 the United States and Canada. 



Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, of the Field 

 Museum of Natural History, accompanied by 

 M. H. B. Conover, of Chicago, sailed January 

 28 for Venezuela where they will make gen- 

 eral zoological collections and distributional 

 studies in the Maracaibo Basin and the 

 Sierra de Merida. 



In the latter part of October, 1919, Carl 

 D. La Rue, botanist for the Hollandsch- 

 Amerikaansche Plantage Maatschappij, re- 



