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The Officers of the AssociationSource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Feb., 1921), pp. 189-190Published by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/6369 .
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I92I, inclusive. The meeting for 1922-T923 will be held in Boston, and that for I923-I924 will be held in Cincinnati. Then will follow the stated convocation meeting in Wash- ington.
THE OFFICERS OF THE ASSO- CIATION
The American Association has been fortunate in its presidents. The address of the retiring president, Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the labo- ratories of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, on the history of bacteriology during the past twenty-five years, printed in the issue of Science for December 3I, was an admirably clear presentation of a subject unsurpassed in its importance to human welfare, described by one who has led in the work.
Dr. L. 0. Howard, chief of the Bureau of Entomology, presided with dignity, skill and tact. He has played a large part in a subject in which science has demonstrated its service in the economic development of the nation and has been the chief execu- tive officer of the association during the twenty-two years which have wit- nessed such an extraordinary devel- opment of the scientific work of the country, paralleled by the growth of the association from some I,200 to over io,ooo members.
Professor E. H. Moore, of the University of Chicago, who will pre- side at Toronto and give his address at Boston, is the acknowledged leader of American mathematicians. It is now many years since that science which is fundamental to all others 1has supplied a president to the asso- ciation, and it is fortunate that a rep- resentative could be selected with the unaniimous approval of all mathema- ticians.
Dr. D. T. MacDougal, director of the department of Botanical Research of the Carnegie Institution, who has
been active in the organization of the work of the association, more espe- cially in the Pacific and Southwest- ern Division, was elected general sec- retary to succeed Professor E. L. Nichols, of Cornell University. By the constitution the general secretary is entrusted with the in2portant task of promoting the organization of the association, especially in its relation to the affiliated societies. Another step that will promote the efficiency of the work of the association was the authorization of the appointment of an assistant secretary who will assist the permanent secretary in the scientific work of the association, as he is now assisted in the work of the office by the efficient executive as- sistant, Mr. Sam Woodley.
Dr. Burton E. Livingston, of the Johns Hopkins University, whose ad- mirable conduct of the affairs of the association dturing the past year has won general recognition, was re- elected for the stated term of four years. Dr. R. S. Woodward, though retiring from the presidency of the Carnegie Institution on reaching the age of seventy years, consented to continue as treasurer, in which of- fice he has served the association for twenty-six years.
Vice-presidents of the association and chairmen of the sections were elected as follows: Mathematics, Oswald Veblen, Princeton University; Physics, G. W. Stewart, State Uni- versity of Iowa; Chemistry, W. D. Harkins, University of Chicago; As- tronomy, S. A. Mitchell, University of Virginia; Geology and Geography, Willet G. Miller, Toronto; Zoological Sciences, Charles A. Kofoid, Univer- sity of California; Botanical Sciences, Mel T. Cook, Rutgers College; An1- thropology, Albert Ernest Jenks, Uni- versity of Minnesota; Psychology, C. A. Bott, University of Toronto; Ag- riculture, J. G. Lipman, Rutgers Col- lege; Education, Guy M. Whipple, University of Michigan.
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