October 6, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



491 



The executive committee of the Pacific Divi- 

 sion of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science has elected Dr. John 

 Casper Branner, president emeritus of Stan- 

 ford University, as president of the division 

 for the year 1916-17. The executive com- 

 mittee includes in addition to the president of 

 the division, the vice-president, Dr. D. T. 

 MacDougal, director of the department of 

 botanical research, Carnegie Institution of 

 "Washington, Tucson, Arizona, who is chair- 

 man of the committee, and the following 

 elected members: E. C. Franklin, professor of 

 chemistry, Stanford University; T. C. Frye, 

 professor of botany, University of Washing- 

 ton, Seattle; C. E. Grunsky, consulting engi- 

 neer and former member of the Panama Canal 

 Commission, San Francisco; G. E. Hale, 

 director of the Mount Wilson Solar Observa- 

 tory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 Pasadena; V. L. Kellogg, professor of ento- 

 mology, Stanford University, now with the 

 commission for relief in Belgium, Brussels; 

 A. C. Lawson, professor of mineralogy and 

 geology, University of California; and E. P. 

 Lewis, professor of physics, University of 

 California. 



The American Chemical Society will hold 

 an adjourned meeting in affiliation with the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science in New York City during convoca- 

 tion week. The society originally planned to 

 meet with the association at that time, but 

 finally decided that it was best to meet simul- 

 taneously with the National Exposition of 

 Chemical Industries, which it was necessary 

 to hold in September. The next annual meet- 

 ing of the society will be held in Boston in 

 September, 1917. Dr. E. G. Love, of New 

 York City, has been elected treasurer of the 

 society, to succeed Dr. A. B. Halloek, who has 

 acted as treasurer for the past twenty-five 

 years. Dr. Charles H. Herty, head of the 

 department of chemistry in the University of 

 North Carolina and the present president of 

 the American Chemical Society, has been 

 elected editor and manager of the Journal of 

 Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. Dr. 

 Herty will take up this work in New York 



City on January 1. The journal has hitherto 

 been edited by Professor M. C. Whittaker, in 

 charge of industrial chemistry at Columbia 

 University, who is unable to give his entire 

 time to the work. 



We learn from Nature that the fourth an- 

 nual meeting of the Indian Science Congress 

 will be held at Bangalore on January 10-13, 

 with Sir Alfred Bourne as president. The fol- 

 lowing sectional presidents have been ap- 

 pointed: Mr. J. MacKenna (Pusa), agricul- 

 ture and applied chemistry; the Bev. D. 

 Mackichan (Bombay), physics; Dr. Zia Ud- 

 din Ahmad (Aligarh), mathematics; Dr. J. L. 

 Simonsen (Madras), chemistry; Mr. K. 

 Bamunni Menon (Madras), zoology; Mr. C. 

 S. Middlemiss (Calcutta), geology. 



Professor J. G. Sanders, the newly ap- 

 pointed Pennsylvania State Economic Zoolo- 

 gist, has begun his work. He has been visiting 

 the agricultural region with Governor Brum- 

 baugh and has taken up the reorganization of 

 his division. 



Dr. William H. Davis, of Boston, has been 

 appointed chief statistician, division of vital 

 statistics, United States Bureau of the Cen- 

 sus. Dr. Davis has been the vital statistician 

 of the Boston Health Department for some 

 years, and was appointed to his present office 

 on the basis of a civil service examination. 



Dr. Sidney D. Jones has been placed in 

 charge of the Fort Dodge (Iowa) Clinical and 

 Roentgen-Bay Laboratory, succeeding Dr. 

 Thomas H. Glenn. 



Dr. Walter Dill Scott, professor of psy- 

 chology at Northwestern University, is on 

 leave of absence for the current year acting as 

 director of the Bureau of Salesmanship Re- 

 search in the Carnegie Institute of Technol- 

 ogy, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Professor George H. Whipple, professor 

 of sanitary engineering at the Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology and secretary of the 

 School for Health Officers, has been retained 

 by the New York State Board of Health as 

 scientific adviser in the matter of the garbage 

 nuisance on Staten Island. Here the plant 

 of a private contractor was licensed and 



