January 25, 1918] 



SCIENCE 



91 



uary 5th, 1918, the following were elected to 

 serve for the ensuing year: President, William 

 B. Scott; Vice-Presidents, Albert A. Michel- 

 son, George Ellery Hale, Joseph G. Eoseu- 

 garten ; Secretaries, I. Minis Hays, Arthur W. 

 Goodspeed, Harry F. Keller, Bradley Moore 

 Davis; Curators, Charles L. Doolittle, William 

 P. Wilson, Leslie W. Miller; Treasurer, Henry 

 LaBarro Jayne; Councilors, to servo for three 

 years, Bertram B. Boltwood, Ernest W. 

 Brown, Francis B. Gummere, Herbert S. Jen- 

 nings. 



Officers of the Geological Society of 

 America for 1918, -were elected at the recent 

 meeting, as follows : President, Whitman 

 Cross, Washington, D. C; First Vice-Presi- 

 dent, Bailey Willis, Stanford University, 

 Cal.; Second Vice-President, Frank Leverett, 

 Ann Arbor, Mich. ; Third Vice-President, Y.'S. 

 Knowlton, Washington, D. C; Secretary, Ed- 

 mund Otis Hovey, New York; Treasurer, E. 

 B. Mathews, Baltimore, Md. ; Editor, Joseph 

 Stanley-Brown, New York; Librarian, Frank 

 R. VanHorn, Cleveland, Ohio; Councilors 

 (1918-1920), Joseph Barrell, New Haven, 

 Conn., E. A. Daly, Cambridge Mass. 



The officers of the Brooklyn Entomological 

 Society elected at the annual meeting on Jan- 

 uary 10 are as follows : W. T. Bather, presi- 

 dent; W. T. Davis, vice-president; Chris. E. 

 Olsen, treasurer; J. E. de la Torre Bueno, re- 

 cording secretary; E. P. Dow, corresponding 

 secretary. Publication Committee : E. P. 

 Dow; Editor, C. Schaefer and J. E. de la 

 Torre Bueno. 



Professor E. A. Sampson has been elected 

 president of the Scottish Meteorological So- 

 ciety. 



The portrait of Professor Thomas C. Cham- 

 berlin, head of the department of geology at 

 the University of Chicago, referred to in a re- 

 cent issue of Science, will be presented to the 

 university at the June convocation. 



M.\YOR Hylan has appointed Dr. J. Lewis 

 Amster, of the Bronx, health commissioner of 

 New York City, to succeed Dr. Haven Emer- 

 son. Dr. Amster is a graduate of the Cornell 

 University Medical School, class of 1902. 



Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, of Washington, D. C, 

 having made application for duty on the active 

 list of the Medical Corps of the Army, has 

 been assigned by General Gorgas to the Army 

 iledical Museum. His work will consist in 

 modernizing the present collection and pre- 

 paring for the incoming medical and surgical 

 material from the front. 



The following committee on the supply of 

 organic chemicals for research during the war 

 has been appointed by the American Chemical 

 Society: E. Emmet Eeid, chairman, Eoger 

 Adams, H. L. Fisher, J. W. E. Glattfeld, W. 

 J. Hale. 



At the ninth annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ean Phytopathological Society a movement was 

 started which indicates that plant pathologists 

 are not merely ready but determined to trans- 

 form their assets and resources into war 

 energy. In order that crop production may be 

 increased by a more concerted effort than ever 

 before put forth to stop the enormous leaks 

 due to plant diseases, a War Emergency Board 

 of seven members was created. The members 

 of the board with the regions which they repre- 

 sent and the special lines of activity which 

 they will supervise are as follows: Chairman, 

 H. H. Whetzel, Cornell University, for the 

 northeast. College and Extension Education; 

 F. D. Kern, the Pennsylvania State College, 

 for the central east, Man-power Census and 

 Publicity; H. W. Barre, Clemson College, for 

 the south. Southern Problems and Needs; G. 

 H. Coons, Michigan Agricultural College, for 

 the central states. Fungicides and Machinery, 

 Supplies and Prices; E. C. Stakman, Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota, for the great plains. 

 Emergency Eeseareh; H. P. Barss, Oregon 

 Agricultural College, for the west, Western 

 Problems and Needs; G. E. Lyman, U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Plant Disease Sur- 

 vey, and Crop Loss Estimates. 



ViLHjALMUR Stefansson, the arctic ex- 

 plorer, according to Captain A. Lane, who ar- 

 rived on January 15 at Fairbanks, Alaska, 

 from the Arctic Ocean, bringing direct news 

 from the explorer, was preparing to make a 

 300-mile dash over the ice north and west of 

 the western Canadian Arctic coast during tho 



