June 16, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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CHAIRMEN OF THE DIVISIONS OF THE 

 NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 



The National Research Council has elected 

 the following chairmen of its divisions for the 

 year 1922-23: 



Division of Foreign Relations: Robert A. Mil- 

 likan, foreign secretary of the National Academy 

 of Sciences, and director of the Norman Bridge 

 Laboratory of Physics, California Institute of 

 Technology, Pasadena, California. 



Division of States Relations: H. S. Graves, 

 dean-elect, School of Forestry, Yale University. 



Division of Educational Relations: Vernon 

 Kellogg, permanent secretary. National Kesearch 

 Council. 



Division of Researcli Extension: W. M. Corse, 

 formerly general manager of the Monel Metal 

 Products Corporation, Bayonne, New Jersey. 



Research Information Service: Eobert M. 

 Yerkes, National Eesearch Council, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Division of Physical Sciences: William Duane, 

 professor of bio-phj'sics, Harvard University Med- 

 ical School. 



Division of Engineering : Alfred D. Flinn, sec- 

 retary. Engineering Foundation, 29 West Thirty- 

 ninth Street, New York, N. Y. 



Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technol- 

 ogy: Edward W. Washburn, professor of ceramic 

 chemistry and head of the department of ceramic 

 engineering. University of Illinois. 



Division of Geology and Geography: Nevin M. 

 Fenneman, professor of geology and geography. 

 University of Cincinnati. 



Division of Medical Sciences: Frederick P. Gay, 

 professor of pathology, University of California. 



Division of Biology and Agriculture: F. B. 

 Lillie, professor of embrj-ology, University of 

 Chicago. 



Division of Anthropology and Psychology : 

 Raymond Dodge, professor of psychology, Wes- 

 leyan University. 



THE U. S. COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES 

 The president, acting upon the recommenda- 

 tion of Herbert Hoover, secretary of com- 

 merce, has nominated Henry O'Malley to be 

 commissioner of fisheries, effective on May 13, 

 1922, and this nomination has been confirmed 

 by the Senate. Mr. O'Malley, like his prede- 

 cessor, Dr. Hugh M. Smith, has had long expe- 

 rience ia the bureau's service, having entered 



in December, 1897, as an apprentice fish-cul- 

 turist at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, in which 

 place he was born in 1876. From St. Johns- 

 bury he was transferred to the bureau's station 

 at Leadville, Colorado, thence to Baker Lake, 

 Washington. In July, 1903, he was appointed 

 superintendent of the Washington stations; in 

 1907, of the biu-eau's work in the Columbia 

 River watershed; in 1913, he was placed in 

 charge of all fish-cultural work on the Pacific 

 coast, with headquarters at Seattle; in 1916, 

 he was made chief of the Division of Fish Cul- 

 ture in Washington and in 1918 placed in 

 charge of all the bureau's activities on the 

 Pacific coast. 



The commissioner is responsible for a num- 

 ber of innovations in fish-cultural practices, 

 such as the discovery of the salt-solution 

 process for separating dead fish eggs from the 

 live ones, eliminating the necessity of removing 

 dead eggs by hand, and the practice of holding 

 young salmon beyond the period when the yolk- 

 sac is absorbed, the wisdom of which has been 

 indicated by the improved run of salmon in 

 such streams. 



For the past three years he has spent the 

 entire fishing season in Alaska engaged in com- 

 prehensive investigations of the fisheries of 

 this region in conjunction with Dr. Charles H. 

 Gilbert, of Stanford University, the results of 

 which have been published in bureau reports 

 for 1919 and 1920. 



In 1916 he was elected president of the 

 Pacific Coast Fisheries Society and in 1918 

 president of the American Fisheries Society. 

 Mr. O'Malley enters the commissionership with 

 a full acquaintance of the needs of the service 

 and its possibilities for rendering fruitful 

 service in its various phases. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The degi-ee of doctor of science was con- 

 ferred at the one hundred and sixty-eighth 

 commencement of Columbia University on Dr. 

 Stephen Smith, the university's oldest living 

 graduate, and on Frank Julian Sprague, the 

 electrical engineer. 



Dr. John J. Cartt, president of the Amer- 

 ican Telegraph and Telephone Companj', re- 



