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THE ninety-third meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will be held at Boston on December 27-30 under the presidency of Dr. H. N. Russell, professor of astronomy and director of the observatory in Princeton University. The title of the address of the retiring president, Prof. J. J. Abel, formerly professor of pharmacology in Johns Hopkins University, will be “On Poisons and Disease, and some Experiments with the Toxin of the Bacillus tetani”. On December 30, Prof. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, will be presented with the Rumford medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; his address on this occasion will be entitled “The Anatomy of a Disordered Universe”. The vice-presidential addresses in the several sections will be delivered by the following: A (Mathematics), Prof. H. H. Mitchell, University of Pennsylvania; B (Physics), Prof. D. L. Webster, Stanford University; C (Chemistry), Prof. F. C. Whitmore, Pennsylvania State College; D (Astronomy), Dr. P. W. Merrill, Mount Wilson Observatory; E (Geology and Geography), Prof. W. H. Hobbs, University of Michigan; F (Zoology), Prof. A. S. Pearce, Duke University; G (Botany), Prof. H. L. Shantz, University of Arizona; H (Anthropology), Prof. C. H. Danforth, Stamford University; I (Psychology), Prof. W. S. Hunter, Clark University; K (Social and Economic Sciences), Prof. W. F. Ogburn, University of Chicago; L (Historical and Philological Sciences), Dr. W. G. Leland, American Council of Learned Societies; M (Engineering), Prof. D. C. Jackson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; N (Medical Sciences), Prof. C. R. Stockard, Cornell University; O (Agriculture), Dr. J. H. Gourley, Ohio Experiment Station; Q (Education), Prof. S. A. Courtis, University of Michigan.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science. Nature 132, 964 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132964c0
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