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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LIV. No. 1403 



The following officers were elected: 



President : Chas. H. Herty, formerly editor of the 

 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. 



Vice-Presidents: C. N. Turner of the Dyestuff 

 Section; Herman Seydell of the Pharmaceutical 

 Section; S. W. Wilder of the Intermediate Section; 

 B. T. Bush of the Fine Organic Chemical Section. 



Members of the Board of Governors: E. S. Bur- 

 dick; K. C. Jeffcott; August Merz; M. R. Poucher; 

 P. Schleussner and P. P. Sum m ers. 



The remaining four members of the Board 

 of Governors, one from each section, will be 

 elected later. The president and the four yice- 

 presidents are ex-officio members of the board 

 of governors. 



THE EDITORSHIP OF THE "JOURNAL OF 



INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING 



CHEMISTRY " 



Mr. Harrison E. Howe has been elected to 

 succeed Dr. Charles H. Herty as editor of the 

 Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chem- 

 istry and director of the A. C. S. ISTews Serv- 

 ice, which are conducted by the American 

 Chemical Society. Dr. Charles L. Parsons, of 

 "Washington, secretary of the society, states 

 that Mr. Howe has accepted the positions. 



Mr. Howe was graduated from Earlham 

 College and the University of Eochester. As 

 chief chemist of the Sanilac Sugar Eefining 

 Company, in like capacity with the Bausch 

 and Lomb Optical Company of Rochester, 

 New York, and as manager of the commer- 

 cial department of A. D. Little, Incorporated, 

 of Boston, and manager of the Montreal of- 

 fices of that organization, he became familiar 

 with the broadest phases of industrial chem- 

 istry. In the war he was consulting chemist 

 of the nitrate division of the Ordnance Bu- 

 reau of the United States Army. Until his 

 election to his present position Mr. Howe 

 was at the head of the division of research 

 extension of the National Research Council. 

 He writes extensively for magazines on ap- 

 plied chemistry and is the author of a re- 

 cently published popular work, " The New 

 Stone Age." 



Dr. Herty resigned the editorship to which 

 Mr. Howe succeeds to accept the presidency 



of the newly formed Synthetic Organic Chem- 

 ical Manufacturers' Association of the United 

 States, which has opened offices on the 34th 

 floor of the Metropolitan Tower at No. 1 

 Madison Avenue. Dr. Herty's career in chem- 

 ical journalism has been varied by many pub- 

 lic activities. By special appointment of 

 President Wilson he went to Paris in 1919 as 

 the representative of the United States in the 

 matter of the distribution of German dyestuffs 

 under the economic clauses of the Peace 

 Treaty. Dr. Herty was also chairman of the 

 committee of the American Chemical Society 

 advisory to the Chemical Warfare Service, 

 member of the dye advisory committee of the 

 Department of State, and chairman of the ad- 

 visory committee of the National Exposition 

 of Chemical Industries. Before beginning this 

 work. Dr. Herty had been a professor in chem- 

 istry at the University of Georgia and at the 

 University of North Carolina. In his new po- 

 sition he will devote himself to the develop- 

 ment of American synthetic organic chemical 

 industry. 



DIRECTOR OF THE HARVARD COLLEGE 

 OBSERVATORY 



As was noted last week in Science, Dr. 

 Harlow Shapley, formerly of the Mt. Wilson 

 Solar Observatory at Pasadena, Cal., and for 

 the past eight months observer at the Harvard 

 College Observatory, has been appointed di- 

 rector of the Harvard Observatory. That post 

 has been vacant since the death of Professor 

 Edward C. Pickering in 1919. 



An article in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin 

 states that Dr. Shapley was born thirty-five 

 years ago at Nashville, Miss. He studied at 

 the University of Missouri, and received the 

 degree of Ph.D. at Princeton. From 1914 

 until last spring, when he came to Harvard, 

 he was attached to the Mt. Wilson Observa- 

 tory. 



At Mt. Wilson he perfected methods of 

 measuring star distances photometrically, and 

 applied these methods to the problem of the 

 distances and structures of the great star- 

 clusters. His work has given a new percep- 

 tion of the size of the stellar universe, and 



