From the January 5, 1935, issue

SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD CHAIRMAN HONORED BY AAAS

The chairman of President Roosevelt’s Science Advisory Board, Dr. Karl T. Compton, was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Compton will succeed Prof. Edward L. Thorndike of Columbia University and he will deliver the principal address of the 1936 meeting to be held at Washington.