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7. That the executive board of the graduate 

 school be requested to prepare for the consid- 

 eration of the faculty and the approval of the 

 corporation plans by which provision can be 

 made for the necessary independence and the 

 proper coordination of graduate and under- 

 graduate work in other departments of study 

 as well as in those immediately affected by this 

 change; and to submit such plans to the gov- 

 erning boards of the two undergraduate schools 

 for their information and for any suggestions 

 which they may choose to make in connection 

 therewith. 



8. That in adopting the above resolutions the 

 corporation does not thereby commit itself to 

 maintaining as a permanent policy the present 

 division between the college and the Sheffield 

 Scientific School in freshman year. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the labora- 

 tories of the Eockefeller Institute for Medical 

 Research, was elected president of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence at the meeting held last week in Balti- 

 more. Chairmen of the sections elected are 

 given in the report of the general secretary, 

 published elsewhere in the present issue of 

 Science. 



Colonel E. D. Scott was elected president 

 of the American Psychological Association at 

 the meeting held last week in Baltimore. 



At the meeting of the American Association 

 of University Professors, held in Baltimore 

 during convocation week. Dr. Arthur 0. Love- 

 joy, professor of philosophy in the Johns Hop- 

 kins University, was elected president. 



Dr. George L. Streeter has been appointed 

 director of the department of embryology of 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Professor A. E. Kennellv, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity and the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, was elected an honorary member 

 of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, Lon- 

 don, November 22, 1918. 



Lieuten.\nt Colonel H.\rvey Gushing, pro- 

 fessor of surgery at Harvard University, was 



made last June neurological consultant to the 

 American Expeditionary Forces, with head- 

 quarters at Neufchateau. 



Dr. William T. Shoem.\ker, of Philadel- 

 phia, in recognition of his services as ophthal- 

 mologist of Base Hospital Unit No. 10, from 

 the Pennsylvania Hospital, which he accom- 

 panied to France in May, 1917, has been ap- 

 pointed ophthalmologist to all American hos- 

 pitals in England, and recently left France to 

 enter upon his new duties. The new appoint- 

 ment carries with it the rank of lieutenant 

 colonel, and he has been recommended for the 

 promotion. 



Dr. a. D. Hirschfelder, of the University 

 of Minnesota, is now with the research divi- 

 sion of the Chemical Warfare Section and has 

 been stationed in Baltimore. 



Dr. Raymond Pearl, chief of the statistical 

 division of the United States Food Adminis- 

 tration, has returned to this country from a 

 twQ months trip in Europe on Food Adminis- 

 tration business. 



Dr. a. G. Ellis, associate professor of pa- 

 thology at Jefferson Medical College, wiU pro- 

 ceed to Siam to organize the department of 

 pathology in the Royal Medical College at 

 Bangkok. The exact date of his departure 

 has not been determined, and is contingent 

 upon the return of Dr. W. M. L. Coplin, pro- 

 fessor of pathology, who is with the American 

 Expeditionary Forces in France, having charge 

 of the organization of the hospital labora- 

 tories. 



The facultj' of the medical school of North- 

 western University, Evanston, Illinois, gave a 

 dinner at the Hotel La Salle, Chicago, on 

 December 12, in honor of Professor Emilius 

 C Dudley, who is retiring from the chair of 

 gynecology after thirty-seven years of work. 

 Many colleagues and friends of Dr. Dudley 

 were there and several speakers both from the 

 faculty and trustees bore witness to his great 

 contribution to the development of modem 

 medicine and the affectionate regard in which 

 he was held. 



