Evening star., 1925-01-02
DIR. PUP|N HEADS
SCIENCE BODIES
Resolution Indorsing Ma
tionaI Arboretum on Way
to Passage.

DR.. Michael I. Pupin, intern ational-
ly famous physicist of Columbia Uni
versity, today was elected president
of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science. succeeding
DR.. ]. McKeen Cattell by a unani-
nous vote.
Selection Of DIR. PupIn was made
by the council of the American As
ISOLATION, which met in the Fairfax
room of the willard Hotel and at the
same session picked more than a score
OF other men to occupy official places
in the orga nization for the next year.
w. j. Humphreys of the United
States Weather Bureau was elected
general secretary, succeeding DR.. D.
T. MacDougal of the Carnegie Insti-
tuition of Washington; John L. Writ,
also Of the Carnegie Institution, was
made treasurer, and B. NJ. Duggar of
st. Louis. Edwin B. Wilson of Har-
ward and DR.. Vernon Kellogg of Bat
tie Creek, Mich. were made members
of the executive committee.
Re-elect Livingston.
Burton E. Livingston Of Johns Hop
kins University was reelected to
the position of permanent secretary,
the only present officer whose term
of office will be indeterminate Mr..
Livingston has served In that position
for years. Vice presidents, who are
made chairman of the various sec
tions comprising the association,
were selected as follows:
w. A. Roever, section on mathe-
mates; H. M. Randall section on
physics; H. P. Cady, chemistry; A E.
Douglas, astronomy; r. A. Daily.
geography and geology: II. S. Jen-
nings, geological sciences; r. B. Wylie,
botanical sciences; C. B. Davenport,
anthropology; C. E. Seashore, psy-
chology; F. r. Fairchild, social and
economic sciences; w. A. Oldfather,
history and pathological sciences; F.
q. Cottrell, engineering; A. j. Carlsan,
medical sciences; C. v. Piper, agricul-
ture, and Otis Caldwell, education.
VIII Indorse Arboretum.
At the same time the council con-
sidered number of resolutions which
had been approved by the executive
committee, one of which would place
the association, and especially the bo-
tanical sciences section. on record as
favoring the creation here of a ma
tional arboretum. The resolution, a
copy of which will be sent to Con-
gress, has already been approved by
the botanists and the executive COM
mittee and now only awaits approval
of the council.
The national arboretum that has
already been proposed for a large
section of land lying along the Ana
costa River was explained to the
botanical section of the associations
convention by P. L. Kicker of Wash
ington on Wednesday. Mr. Kicker
told how experts had decided upon
that tract at joint meeting with
members Of Congress in 1920.
Mr.. Riker told the botanists how
bills to create the arboretum have
failed of passage at the last session
of Congress and described the plans
mapped out by the experts. Although
he made no suggestion or recon-
mendation for action. by the associa-
ton, resolution urging Congress to
establish the aboretum without de-
lay was passed and will be sent
through it's final process of adoption
some time today
Although a number of the sections
of the association have concluded
their final sessions and the last gen.
eral session of the association as a
whole was held in Memorial Conti-
mental Hall last night, much scien-
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