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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. SLIX. No. 1271 



APPOINTMENTS AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY 



The following promotions and appointments 

 in the scientific departments are announced : 



George David Birthoff, professor of mathemat- 

 ies. A.B. (Harvard Univ.) 1905, A.M. (ihid.) 

 196, Ph.D. (Univ. of Chicago) 1907. Instructor 

 in mathematics, 1907-09, University of Wiscon- 

 sin; preceptor in mathematics, 1909-11, professor 

 of mathematics, 1911-12, Princeton University; as- 

 sistant professor of mathematics, 1912-19, Har- 

 vard University. 



Cecil Kent Drinker, associate professor of ap- 

 plied physiology. S.B. (Haverford Coll.) 1909, 

 M.D. (Univ. of Pennsylvania) 1913. Instructor 

 in physiology, 1915-16, Johns Hopkins University; 

 instructor in physiology, 1916-18, assistant pro- 

 fessor of physiology, 1918-19, Harvard University. 



Chester Laurens Dawes, assistant professor of 

 electrical engineering. S.B. (Mass. Institute of 

 Technology) 1909. Assistant in electrical engineer- 

 ing, 1911-12, instructor in electrical engineering, 

 1912-19, Harvard University; instnictor in elec- 

 trical engineering, 1916-19, Massachiisetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology. 



"William Caspar Graustein, assistant professor 

 of mathematics. A.B. (Harvard Univ.) 1910, 

 A.M. (ibid.) 1911, Ph.D. (Univ. of Bonn) 1913. 

 Instructor in mathematics, 1913-14, 1919, Harvard 

 University; instructor in mathematics, 1914-16, 

 assistant professor of mathematics, 1916-19, Bice 

 Institute, Texas. 



Lincoln Ware Eiddle, assistant professor of 

 cryptogamie botany. A.B. (Harvard Univ.) 1902, 

 A.M. (ibid.) 1905, Ph.D. (ibid.) 1906. Austin 

 teaching fellow in botany, 1905-06, Harvard Uni- 

 versity; instructor in botany, 1906-09, associate 

 professor of botany, 1909-18, professor of botany, 

 1918-19, Wellesley College. 



Frederick Albert Saunders, assistant professor 

 of physics. A.B. (Univ. of Toronto) 1895, Ph.D. 

 (Johns Hopkins Univ.) 1899. Instructor in phys- 

 ics, 1899-1901, Haverford College; instructor in 

 physics, 1901-02, associate professor of physics, 

 1902-05, professor of physics, 1905-14, Syracuse 

 University; professor of physics, 1914-19, Vassar 

 College. 



Bancroft Huntington Brown, A.M., instructor in 

 mathematics. 



Edward Smith Handy, A.B., Austin teaching 

 fellow in anthropology. 



Charles Andrew Rupp, Jr., instructor in mathe- 

 matics. 



Arthur Bliss Seymour, S.M., assistant In the 

 cryptogamie herbarium. 



Horace Greeley Perry, A.M., Austin teaching 

 fellow in botany. 



John Felt Cole, A.B., instructor in astronomy. 



McKeen Cattell, A.M., Austin teaching fellow in 

 physiology. 



Neal Tuttle, A.M., Austin teaching fellow in 

 chemistry. 



THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



At the meeting of the National Academy of 

 Sciences, which took place last week at Wash- 

 ington, the following officers were elected: 



Home Secretary: Dr. Charles Greely Abbot, assist- 

 ant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



Treasurer: Frederick L. Eansome, U. S. Geological 

 Survey. 



Members of the Council: Colonel John J. Carty, 

 American Telephone and Telegraph Company; 

 Dr. Henry H. Donaldson, Wistar Institute of 

 Anatomy, University of Pennsylvania, and Pro- 

 fessor Raymond Pearl, school of hygiene and 

 public health. The Johns Hopkins University. 

 Members were elected as follows: 



Professor Joseph Barrell, geologist, Tale Univer- 



, sity, 



Professor Gary Nathan Calkins, zoologist, Colum- 

 bia University, 



Professor Herbert D. Curtis, astronomer. Lick Ob- 

 servatory, University of California, 



,Gano Dunn, electrical engineer, New York City, 



Professor Lawrence J. Henderson, biologist, Har- 

 vard University, 



Professor Eeid Hunt, pharmacologist. Harvard 

 University, 



Professor Treat Baldwin Johnson, chemist, Yale 

 University, 



Professor W. J. V. Osterhout, botanist. Harvard 

 University, 



Dr. Frederick A. Seares, astronomer, Mount WU- 

 son Observatory, Mount Wilson, California, 



Professor WHliam A. Setchell, botanist. University 

 of California, 



Major General George 0. Squier, electrical engi- 

 neer, chief army signal officer, Washington, D. C, 



Professor Augustus Trowbridge, physicist, Prince- 

 ton University, 



Professor Oswald Veblen, mathematician, Prince- 

 ton University, 



Professor Ernest J. Wilczyuski, mathematician. 

 University of California, 



Professor Edwin Bidwell Wilson, mathematical 

 physicist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 



