Asa Gray Professor of Systematic Botany, Harvard University, Vice-President for Botany.
of social and economic science, having been secretary for the last two, and at different times elected to the vice-presidency of the same. At Philadelphia he gave the vice-presidential address before Section D on 'Lines of Progress in Engineering.' His portrait will be found in the issue of the Monthly for February. 1904. Space does not permit more than a list of the well-known names of the newly elected vice-presidents, which are as follows:
Section of Mathematics and Astronomy—Professor W. S. Eichelberger, Washington. D. C.
Section of Physics—Professor Henry Crew. Evanston, Ill.
Section of Chemistry—Professor Charles F. Mabery, Cleveland, Ohio.
Section of Mechanical Science and Engineering.—Professor F. W. McNair. Houghton, Mich.
Section of Geology.—Professor William North Rice, Middletown, Conn.
Section of Zoology.—Professor H. B. Ward, Lincoln, Nebr.
Section of Botany.—Dr. Erwin F. Smith, Washington, D. C.
Section of Anthropology.—Dr. George Grant McCurdy, New Haven, Conn.
Section of Social and Economic Science.—Professor Irving Fischer, New Haven, Conn.
Section of Physiology and Experimental Medicine.—Professor William T. Sedgwick, Boston. Mass.
