From the January 11, 1936 issue

PROF. E.G. CONKLIN WILL PRESIDE OVER A.A.A.S.

Prof. Edwin Grant Conklin, one of America’s leading biologists and long a professor at Princeton University, was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Conklin in being elected to this high scientific office succeeds Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he will preside during 1936 and deliver the principal address of the 1937 Christmas meeting.