From the May 4, 1935, issue

DR. FRANK R. LILLIE HEADS BOTH ACADEMY AND NRC

Doctor Frank R. Lillie was elected president of the National Academy of Sciences for a 4-year term, an office considered the highest within the gift of American science. He is Canadian born and has been serving both as dean of the division of biological sciences at the University of Chicago and as president of the Woods Hole, Mass.,