Chicago in 1907, has been connected since that time with the work in Semitics. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Dr. Burton E. Livingston, who received his Doctor's degree from that institution in 1901, has been elected permanent secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Livingston will retain his professorship of plant physiology at Johns Hopkins University, his office as secretary of the Association being at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Professor Livingston has been a soil expert in the United States Bureau of Soils and a member of the department of botanical research in the Carnegie Institution, and is the inventor of scientific instruments for measuring evaporation and for automatic control of soil moisture. A William Vaughn Moody lecture on "Japanese Poetry" was given in the William Rainey Harper Memorial Library at the University of Chicago on February 16. The lecturer was Mr. Yone Noguchi, a Japanese poet who is professor of English literature in Keio University, Japan. At the meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in St. Louis during the holiday week, the following University of Chicago doctors were among the officers of the various sections or of affiliated scientific societies: Section A (Mathematics and Astronomy), George D. Birkhoff, '07, Harvard, retiring vice-president, F. R. Moulton and G. A. Bliss, University of Chicago, secretaries for one and four years respectively; Section B (Physics), Gordon F. Hull, '97, retiring vice-president; Section C (Chemistry), R. F. Bacon, '04, director of Mellon Institute, member of general executive committee; Section E (Geology and Geography), Rollin T. Chamberlin, '07, Chicago secretary for one year, and W. W. Atwood, '03, Harvard, for five years; Section F (Zoology), V. E. Shelford, '07, secretary for four years; Section G (Botany), William Crocker, '06, Chicago, member of the general committee; American Mathematical Society, Gilbert A. Bliss, 'oo, retiring chairman of the Chicago section; Mathematical Association of America, H. E. Slaught, '98, retiring president; American Society of Zoologists, C. M. Child, Univeristy of Chicago, president, W. C. Allee, '12, Lake Forest College, secretary; Entomological Society of America, Charles A. Shull, '15, chairman of the Physiological section. Also papers were read at the meetings by Chicago doctors as follows: G. D. Birkhoff, '07, retiring vice-presidential address of Section A; G. A. Bliss, 'oo, retiring chairman address; H. E. Slaught, '98, address of meeting of the Missouri section of the Mathematical Association of America; Louis Ingold, '07, on a "Treatment of Fourier's Series"; Gordon F. Hull, '97, retiring vice-presidential address of Section B; Irwin Roman, A.M., '16, on "Defects in Centered Quodric Lenses"; A. C. Lunn, '04, on "Influence of Blowing Pressure on Pitch of Pipe Organ"; T. E. Doubt, '04, on "Charcoal Absorptions and Cyclic Change"; C. H. Gordon, '95, "Geology of the Cave Areas of East Tennessee"; S. S. Visher, '14, "Geology of the Sullivan County (Indiana) Oil Field"; Stuart Weller, Chicago, "The Chester Series in Illinois"; R. T. Chamberlin, '07, "Some Glacier Studies in Alaska"; Reinhardt Thiessen, '07, "Correlation of Coal Fields by Means of Their Spore-Exines"; W. W. Atwood, '03, "Educational Advantages of the Regional Treatment of Geography"; V. E. Shelford, '07, "Illinois Natural History Survey"; Charles Zeleny, '04, "The Mutational Series in Dropsiphila"; W. C. Allee, '12, "Animal Aggregations' Chamberlain, '97, "The Living Cycads and the Phylogeny of Seed Plants"; W. J. G. Land, '04, "A Suspensor in Angiopteris"; C. A. Shull, '15, "Absorptions of Moisture by Gelatin in a Saturated Atmosphere"; "Changes in Vegetations of Western Kentucky"; "The Formation of a New Island in the Mississippi River"; Helen T. Wooley, 'oo, "Organization of Course of Study in the Elementary School"; Clara Schmitt, '14, "Reasons for Retardations in Arithmetic"; J. E. Hosic, Ph.M., '02, "Some Results of an Empirical Study of School Reading Books." C. J. (NEW SERIES) Continuing THE UNIVERSITY RECORD, Vol. XIII, and "The University Record" EDITOR DAVID ALLAN ROBERTSON Vol. VI CONTENTS FOR APRIL 1920 FRONTISPIECE: JOHN CRERAR: PORTRAIT THE POLITICAL PROGRESS OF THE ENGLISH WORKINGMAN THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES JOHN CRERAR MRS. MARY H. WILMARTH Conyers Read 65 J. Spencer Dickerson 96 Thomas W. Goodspeed 98 JOHN BILLINGS FISKE: PORTRAIT THE JOHN BILLINGS FISKE PRIZE IN POETRY LI SIEN. 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