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AT the recent annual general meeting of Science Service, Dr. L. A. Maynard, professor of nutrition and biochemistry of Cornell University, and Dr. Rene J. Dubos, bacteriologist and member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York City, were elected new trustees, being nominated by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council, respectively. At the same time, the following officers were re-elected : President, Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of Harvard College Observatory ; Vice-President and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Dr. Alexander Wetmore, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ; Treasurer, O. W. Riegel, director of Lee School of Journalism, Washington and Lee University ; Secretary, Watson Davis, director of Science Service. Additional members elected to the Executive Committee were Frank R. Ford, editor, Evansville Press, Evansville, Ind., and Dr. Karl Lark-Horovitz, Purdue University. Science Service is an endowed, non-profit-making institution for the popularization of science. The board of trustees consists of three representatives each from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Council, the journalistic profession, and the Scripps Estate. The address of Science Service is 1719 N St., N.W., Washington 6, D.C.
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Science Service, Washington. Nature 163, 903–904 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163903d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163903d0