June 4, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



565 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Fellows elected at the annual meeting of 

 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

 include Cecil Kent Drinker, Harlow Shapley, 

 William Underwood and Clark Wissler. 

 Maurice Caullery and Jacques Solomon 

 Hadamard were elected foreign honorary 

 members. 



At the annual meeting of the Association 

 of American Physicians held in Atlantic City, 

 N. J., May 4 and 5, Dr. William S, Thayer, 

 Baltimore, was elected president; Dr. Herbert 

 C. Moffitt, San Francisco, vice president; Dr. 

 Thomas McCrae, Philadelphia, secretary; Dr. 

 Thomas R. Boggs, Baltimore, recorder, and 

 Dr. Joseph A. Capps, Chicago, treasurer. 



Dr. Reid Hunt, of Harvard University, 

 was elected president of the United States 

 Pharmacopeial convention, on May 12, to suc- 

 ceed Dr. Harvey W. Wiley. 



Colonel Marston Taylor Bogert, professor 

 of chemistry in Colmnbia University, has 

 been elected president of the American Sec- 

 tion of the Societe de Chemie Industrielle of 

 France. 



Dr. Stanley H. Osborne, formerly epide- 

 miologist of the Massachusetts State Depart- 

 ment of Health, has been appointed director 

 of the Division of Preventable Diseases in the 

 Connecticut State Department of Health. 



We learn from Nature that at the annual 

 general meeting of the Marine Biological 

 Association, held in London on April 28, Sir 

 E. Eay Lankester was reelected president and 

 Sir Arthur Shipley chairman of the council. 

 The Right Hon. Sir Arthur Griffith Boscawen 

 was added to the list of vice-presidents, and 

 Messrs. T. H. Riches and Julian S. Huxley 

 became members of the council. 



Sm Henry A. Miers, vice-chancellor of the 

 Victoria University of Manchester, formerly 

 professor of mineralogy at Oxford, has been 

 reelected president of the Manchester Literary 

 and Philosophical Society for the session 

 1920-21. 



Mr. Wilfred H. Parker has been apxwinted 

 director of the British National Institute of 

 Agricultural Botany. The institute, includ- 



ing the Official Seed-testing Station for Eng- 

 land and Wales will be housed in quarters in 

 course of erection at Cambridge. 



Dr. E. S. Moore, professor of geology and 

 mineralogy and dean of the School of Mines 

 of the Pennsylvania State College, has been 

 appointed a member of the committee on 

 sedimentation of the National Research 

 Coimcil. He will represent the colleges and 

 universities in the eastern states in an 

 organization for the stimulation of research 

 work on sedimentation. 



Professor W. W. Rowlee, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has been engaged to make a further 

 investigation of balsa wood in Central Amer- 

 ica. Sailing to Costa Rica immediately after 

 Commencement, he will resume the work 

 which he began on his first trip in 1918-19. 

 He will be accompanied by Instructor Harvey 

 E. Stork. 



Professor L. C. Glenn has recently been 

 on leave of absence from Vanderbilt Univer- 

 sity investigating for the U. S. Department 

 of Justice the physiographic and geologic 

 problems involved in the disputed jurisdiction 

 between Texas and Oklahoma in the Red 

 River valley part of the Burkbmmett oil field. 

 He plans to spend a part of the coming sum- 

 mer there in further studies of the river's 

 changes in that region. 



W. L. Whitehead, recently of the geo- 

 logical department of the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology, has gone to South 

 America to carry on geologic exploration in 

 Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. 



It is noted in Nature that the Royal 

 Academy's exhibition thig year includes a 

 presentation portrait of Sir Clifford Allbutt 

 painted by Sir William Orpen. The picture 

 hangs in the first gallery and bears the in- 

 scription : " Sir Clifford Allbutt, K.C.B., M.D., 

 F.R.S., Regius Professor of Physics in the 

 University of Cambridge; President of the 

 British Medical Association. Presented to 

 him by his Profession, 1920." A proof of the 

 mezzotint engraving of the portrait is ex- 

 hibited in the room devoted to engravings, 

 drawings and etchings. 



