From the January 9, 1932, issue
By Science News
DR. ABEL OF JOHNS HOPKINS ELECTED NEW AAAS HEAD
Dr. John J. Abel, professor of pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, has been elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for 1932. This action was taken at the annual meeting of the Association in New Orleans. Dr. Abel succeeds Dr. Franz Boas, noted anthropologist at Columbia University.
ANIMAL IMMUNIZED AGAINST PARASITE FOR FIRST TIME
Successful immunization of an animal against a many-celled parasite has been accomplished for the first time in history, and this feat may be the first step toward the development of a preventive of tapeworm and other unpleasant parasitic infections in human beings, it was revealed in a report to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.