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THE following have been re-elected officers of Science Service, the American institution for the popularization and interpretation of science: president, Dr. E. G. Conklin; vice-president and chairman of the Executive Committee, Dr. Harlow Shapley; treasurer, O. W. Riegel; secretary, Watson Davis. Dr. Otis W. Caldwell, of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and general secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Max B. Cook, promotion editor of Scripps-Howard newspapers, have been elected to the Board of Trustees, which is now constituted as follows, the bodies represented by the trustee being indicated in brackets: Dr. Obis W. Caldwell, Dr. Edwin G. Conklin, president of the American Philosophical Society, and Dr. Henry B. Ward, University of Illinois (American Association for the Advancement of Science); Dr. Warren H. Lewis, Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Dr. R. A. Millikan, California Institute of Technology, and Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory (National Academy of Sciences); Dr. C. G. Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Ross G. Harrison, chairman of the National Research Council, and Prof. Hugh S. Taylor, Princeton University (National Research Council); A. H. Kirchhofer, managing editor of the Bvffalo Evening News, O, W. Riegel, Washington and Lee School of Journalism, now on war leave with the Office of War Information, and Neil H. Swanson, executive editor of Sun papers (journalistic profession); Max B. Cook, Frank R. Ford, editor; Evansville Press, and H. L. Smithton, executive agent of the E. W. Scripps Trust (E. W. Scripps Estate).
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Officers and Trustees of Science Service. Nature 154, 143 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154143b0
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