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SCIENCE 



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next year in Boston. The vice-presidents for 

 the sections and newly elected secretaries are 

 as follows : 



Seotion A — Mathematics and Astronomy — Pro- 

 fessor Ernest W. Brown, Yale University. 



Seotion B — Physics — Dr. L. A. Bauer, Carnegie 

 Institution, Washington, T). C. 



Section C — Chemistry — Professor William Mc- 

 Pherson, Ohio State University. 



Section D — Mechanical Science and Engineering 

 — Dr. J. P. Hayford, U. S. Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey. 



Section B — Geology and Geography — Dr. E. W. 

 Brock, director of the Canadian Geological Survey. 



Section P — Zoology — Professor William E. Rit- 

 ter, University of California. 



Section G — Botany— ProiessoT D. P. Penhallow, 

 McGill University. 



Section H — Anthropology and Psychology— 'Dr. 

 William H. Holmes, Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology. 



Section I — Social and Economic Science — Presi- 

 dent Carroll D. Wright, Clark College. 



Seotion E — Physiology and Experimental Medi- 

 cine — Professor Charles S. Minot, Harvard Med- 

 ical School. 



Section L — Education — Professor J. E. Russell, 

 dean of Teachers College, Columbia University. 



General Secretary — Professor Dayton C. Miller, 

 Case School of Applied Science. 



Secretary of the Council — Dr. F. G. Benedict, 

 director of the Nutrition Laboratory of the Car- 

 negie Institution. 



Secretary of Section H — Anthropology — Pro- 

 fessor G«orge Grant MacCurdy, Yale University. 



Secretary of Section K — Physiology and Experi- 

 mental Medicine — Dr. George T. Kemp, Cham- 

 paign, 111. 



The officers of the American Society of 

 Naturalists elected at the Baltimore meeting 

 are as follows : President, Professor T. H. 

 Morgan, of Columbia University; Vice-presi- 

 dent for the Eastern Section, Professor W. H. 

 Howell, Johns Hopkins University; additional 

 members of the Council, Dr. D. T. Mac- 

 Dougall and Professor Charles H. Judd. 

 Professor H. McE. Knower and Dr. Hermann 

 von Schrenck were reelected as secretary and 

 treasurer, respectively. 



Presiding officers of societies meeting at 

 Baltimore were elected as follows: The Geo- 

 logical Society of America, Mr. G. K. Gilbert, 



of the U. S. Geological Survey, for the second 

 time, he having held this office in 1892; The 

 American Chemical Society, Dr. W. R. Whit- 

 ney, director of the Eesearch Laboratories of 

 the General Electric Company, at Schenec- 

 tady; The American Zoological Society, Pro- 

 fessor Herbert E. Jennings, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University; The American Anthro- 

 pological Association, Dr. W. H. Holmes, 

 chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology; 

 The American Psychological Association, 

 Professor Charles H. Judd, professor of psy- 

 chology at Tale University and director-elect 

 of the School of Education in the University 

 of Chicago. 



Professor T. C. Chamberlin, after pre- 

 siding at the Baltimore meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Association, left for San Francisco on 

 his way to China, where he will study the 

 geology of the country with special reference 

 to its influence on social and educational con- 

 ditions, as a member of a commission sent by 

 the University of Chicago. 



Dr. Ernst Haeckel, professor of zoology in 

 the University of Jena, will retire from active 

 service at the close of the present semester. 



At the commemoration of the centenary of 

 Charles Darwin by the University of Cam- 

 bridge in June, 1909, the Royal Geographical 

 Society will be represented by its president. 

 Major Leonard Darwin. 



Professor Hermann Volz, the sculptor of 

 the Bunsen monument at Heidelberg, has 

 been given an honorary doctorate by the 

 university. 



Sir Archibald Geikie will give an address 

 on the occasion of the celebration of the fif- 

 tieth anniversary of the Geological Society of 

 Glasgow to be held on January 28. 



Dr. Norman E. Ditman, instructor in path- 

 ology at Columbia University, has been ap- 

 pointed by President Butler chairman of a 

 committee of twelve to investiga'^e and report 

 at an early date, upon the feasibility of estab- 

 lishing at Columbia a school or department of 

 sanitation. 



Dr. J. J. Ejnyoun has been appointed 

 pathologist and Dr. Truman Abbe, radiologist 



