Mat 5, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



473 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 At the meeting of the National Academy of 

 Sciences, held in Washington on April 26, mem- 

 bers were elected as follows : Edward W. Berry, 

 professor of paleontology, the Johns Hopkins 

 University; Greorge K. Burgess, Bureau of 

 Standards ; Euf us Cole, director of the hospital 

 of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re- 

 search; Luther P. Eisenhart, professor of 

 mathematics, Princeton University; Joseph Er- 

 langer, professor of physiology, Washington 

 University Medical School; Herbert Hoover, 

 secretary of commerce; George A. Hulett, pi'o- 

 fessor of physical chemistry, Princeton Uni- 

 versity; Charles A. Kofoid, professor of zo- 

 ology, University of California; George P. 

 Merrill, curator of geology, U. S. National Mu- 

 seum; C. E. Seashore, professor of psychology. 

 State University of Iowa; Charles R. Stockard, 

 professor of anatomy, Cornell Medical College; 

 Ambrose Swasey, president of the Warner and 

 Swasey Company; W. H. Wright, astronomer, 

 the Lick Observatory, University of California. 

 Dr. Albert Einstein, of the University of Bei-- 

 lin, was elected a foreign associate. 



At the meeting of the American Philosophical 

 Society, held in the city of Philadelphia, on 

 April 23 and 24, the following officers were 

 elected: President, William B. Scott; vice- 

 presidents, Arthur A. Noyes, Hampton L. Car- 

 son, Henry Fairfield Osborn ; secretaries, Arthur 

 W. Goodspeed, Harry P. Keller, John A. Mil- 

 ler; curators, William P. Wilson, Henry H. 

 Donaldson ; treasurer, Eli Kirk Price ; council- 

 lors, Lafayette B. Mendel, Herbert S. Jennings, 

 William W. Campbell, Robert A. Millikan, 

 Felix E. Schelling. Members were elected as 

 follows : Charles Elmer Allen, Madison, Wis. ; 

 Rollins Adams Emerson, Ithaca; Worthington 

 C. Ford, Cambridge, Mass; Frederick E. Ives, 

 Philadelphia; Irving Langmuir, Schenectady; 

 Roland S. Morris, Philadelphia; George Wil- 

 liam Norris, Philadelphia; Charles Lee Reese, 

 Wilmington; Harlow Shapley, Cambridge, 

 Mass. ; Henry Skinner, Philadelphia ; James 

 Perrin Smith, Palo Alto ; Charles Cutler Torrey, 

 New Haven; Robert De Courey Ward, Cam- 

 bridge; Henry Stephens Washington, Wash- 

 ington; David Locke Webster, Stanford Uni- 

 versity. 



Dk. William F. Osgood and Dr. George D. 

 Birkhoff, professors of mathematics at Harvard 

 University, have been elected corresponding 

 members of the Gottingen Academy of Sciences. 



At the anniversary meeting of the Royal Irish 

 Academy held in March, Professor T. H. Mor- 

 gan, of Columbia University, and Professor 

 Jules Bordet, of the University of Brussels, 

 were elected honorary members in the section 

 of science. 



The Entomological Society of Brazil, on 

 March 9, elected Dr. W. J. Holland, director of 

 the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, as one of 

 its honorary members "in token of their appre- 

 ciation of the services he has rendered to the 

 science of entomology." 



Peopessoe W. Nehnst will take over on April 

 1 the duties of director of the Physikalisch- 

 Technische Reichsanstalt, but will continue to 

 act as rector of the University of Berlin until 

 October 15. 



Professor Dugald C. Jackson, head of the 

 department of electrical engineering, Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, was elected presi- 

 dent of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers at 

 the annual meeting of the society on March 15.. 



Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan has at his request 

 been relieved of administrative duties as chief' 

 of the Coastal Plain section in the Geological 

 Survey, and L. W. Stephenson has been assign- 

 ed these duties. W. P. Woodring has been ap- 

 pointed chief of the section of West Indian, 

 geologic surveys in the Coastal Plain section. 



F. J. Katz, who has been ivith the Census. 

 Bureau for several years, has returned to the 

 Geological Survey and will be assistant chief of 

 the Mineral Resources section. 



Herbert Popenoe, of Stanford University,, 

 has been appointed psychologist for the Califor- 

 nia State Bureau of Juvenile Research, to be 

 stationed at the Preston School of Industry. 



F. H. Read, formerly assistant engineer of 

 tests of the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory, has. 

 resigned to accept the position as research engi- 

 neer of the Office of Public Roads, with head- 

 quarters at Harrisburg, Pa. 



The Smith's Prizes at the University of Cam- 

 bridge have been awarded to E. A. Milne, Trin- 



