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IT is announced by Science Service, Washington, D.C., that the following have been elected members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences: Dr. N. L. Bowen, Carnegie Institution of Washington, geologist; Dr. C. M. Child, the University of Chicago, zoologist; Dr. G. E. Coghill, Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, chemist; Dr. James Ewing, Memorial Hospital, New York City, pathologist; Dr. M. L. Fernald, Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass., botanist; Dr. Harvey Fletcher, Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York City, physicist; Dr. Ross Aiken Gortner, University of Minnesota, chemist; Dr. E. A. Hooton, Harvard University, anthropologist; Dr. J. C. Hunsaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, aerodynamist; Dr. Walter S. Hunter, Clark University, psychologist; Dr. Dunham Jackson, University of Minnesota, mathematician; Dr. Chester R. Longwell, Yale University, geologist; Dr. H. C. Urey, Columbia University, chemist; Dr. J. H. Van Vleck, Harvard University, physicist. New foreign associates of the Academy are: Dr. J. S. Haldane, director of the Mining Research Laboratory and honorary professor in the University of Birmingham, and Dr. Jules Bordet, director of the Pasteur Institute, Brussels. Dr. Frank R. Lillie has been elected president of the National Academy of Sciences for a term of four years. He is dean of the division of biological sciences at the University of Chicago and president of the Woods Hole, Mass., Marine Biological Laboratory.
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U.S. National Academy: Elections and Awards. Nature 135, 835 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135835c0
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