December 29, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



917 



given by chairmen of the sections and of the 

 presidents of the affiliated societies. There 

 will also be printed in Science the transactions 

 of the association and reports of the proceed- 

 ings of the different societies, as well as many 

 of the more important papers presented before 

 them. 



The number of papers announced in ad- 

 vance to be read before the New York meet- 

 ing of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science and affiliated societies 

 listed under the related sections of the asso- 

 ciation is: 



A — Mathematics and Astronomy 57 



B— Physics 38 



C— Chemistry 18 



D — Engineering 50 



E — Geology and Geography 51 



E— Zoology 217 



G — Botany 292 



H — Anthropology and Psychology 137 



I — Social and Economic Science 49 



K — Physiology and Medicine 355 



L — Education 53 



M — Agriculture 15 



Total 1,332 



Professor M. I. Pupin, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, has been elected president of the New 

 York Academy of Sciences, which in 1917 will 

 celebrate its hundredth anniversary. 



Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Labora- 

 tories of the Eockefeller Institute for Medical 

 Research, has been elected foreign associate 

 member of the Paris Academy of Medicine. 



Professors Paul Painleve, of Paris, and 

 Vito Volterra, of Rome, have been elected 

 honorary members of the Royal Institution, 

 London. 



Dr. Robert A. Millikan, professor of phys- 

 ics in the University of Chicago, will hereafter 

 spend three months of each year in research 

 work and lecturing at the Throop College of 

 Technology, at Pasadena, California. This 

 arrangement is similar to that with Dr. 

 A. A. Noyes, professor of physical chemistry 

 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 and is made possible by the recently an- 

 nounced gift of $100,000 for physical research. 



At a recent meeting of the corporation of 

 Yale University, a " Yale Research Com- 

 mittee " was appointed to cooperate with the 

 National Research Council. The committee is 

 composed of President Arthur Twining Had- 

 ley; Mr. Harry Goodyear Day, of New Haven, 

 and Mr. John Villiers Farwell, of Chicago, 

 representing the corporation of the university; 

 Mr. Edwin Musser Herr, of Pittsburgh, and 

 Mr. William Wallace Nichols, of New York 

 City, representing the alumni; and Professors 

 Treat Baldwin Johnson, Ernest William 

 Brown, James Parley McClelland, Ernest Fox 

 Nichols, Charles-Edward Amory Winslow and 

 Russell Henry Chittenden, chairman, repre- 

 senting the faculties. 



At its last meeting the Rumford Committee 

 of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences made the following appropriations. To 

 Mr. Everett T. King, of Cambridge, $25 in 

 aid of his researches on physical measurements 

 of the color of pigments. To Professor Ed- 

 ward Kremers, of the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, $300 in aid of his research on the chemical 

 action of light on organic compounds. 



Dr. H. S. Grindley, professor of animal 

 husbandry in the University of Ulinois, was 

 elected president of the American Society of 

 Animal Production at the annual meeting held 

 at the University of Ulinois on December 1. 

 Professor John M. Ervard, professor of animal 

 husbandry at Iowa State University, was 

 elected vice-president. 



Admiral Sir Henry Jackson, K.C.B., F.R.S., 

 first sea lord of the British admiralty, has been 

 appointed to the vacant post of president of 

 the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and has 

 been succeeded as first sea lord by Admiral Sir 

 John Jellicoe, K.C.B. 



Nature states that Dr. Eric Mjoberg, assist- 

 ant in the entomological department of the 

 Swedish State Museum, has received leave of 

 absence for three years in order to prepare and 

 conduct an expedition to the interior of New 

 Guinea. His intention is to penetrate into the 

 country by aeroplane, taking as his starting 

 point one of the small islands in Geelwink 

 Bay, at the northwest end of the country. Dr. 



