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How To Say Merry Christmas 52 Times a Year This year, remember friends at home and overseas with the warmest of professional gifts: a year's membership in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Think of this for younger colleagues, for your stu- dents, your physician . . . as a thank you for hos- pitality enjoyed on your last trip abroad, as a greeting to the new friends you made at the inter- national congress. This year, decide to renew old professional friend- ships and make new ones by sending-each week -the significant news of research . . . appraisals of new scientific books . . . path-finding analyses of current problems in research . . . continuing scrutiny of the impact of science and public policy. Just fill in and return the card opposite this page, which requires no postage. We'll announce your gift with a handsome gift card, suitable for either Christmas or New Year's greeting, and including one of the famous colored star photographs taken by William C. Miller at Mt. Wilson-Palomar Observ- atories. The subscription card may also be used to enter a new membership for yourself, or to extend your membership. The coming year is a good year to make sure of your own copy of SCIENCE. Speeded up editorial handling means that SCIENCE will bring you reports of major research news soon after these findings are made. Fill in the card, drop it in the mail, and reflect that you've taken a step to assure another year of achievement for yourself, for your friends.

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How To Say Merry Christmas52 Times a Year

This year, remember friends at home and overseaswith the warmest of professional gifts: a year'smembership in the American Association for theAdvancement of Science.

Think of this for younger colleagues, for your stu-dents, your physician . . . as a thank you for hos-pitality enjoyed on your last trip abroad, as agreeting to the new friends you made at the inter-national congress.

This year, decide to renew old professional friend-ships and make new ones by sending-each week-the significant news of research . . . appraisalsof new scientific books . . . path-finding analysesof current problems in research . . . continuingscrutiny of the impact of science and public policy.

Just fill in and return the card opposite this page,which requires no postage. We'll announce yourgift with a handsome gift card, suitable for eitherChristmas or New Year's greeting, and includingone of the famous colored star photographs takenby William C. Miller at Mt. Wilson-Palomar Observ-atories.

The subscription card may also be used to enter anew membership for yourself, or to extend yourmembership. The coming year is a good year tomake sure of your own copy of SCIENCE. Speededup editorial handling means that SCIENCE willbring you reports of major research news soonafter these findings are made.

Fill in the card, drop it in the mail, and reflectthat you've taken a step to assure another year ofachievement for yourself, for your friends.

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William J. Corcoran, assistant to thetechnical director of the Navy SpecialProjects Office, Washington, D.C.,has been appointed director of theresearch and advanced technologydivision at United Technology Corpo-ration, Sunnyvale, Calif.

Hugh H. Hussey, dean of George-town University's school of medicine,will resign early next year to becomedirector of the American Medical As-sociation's division of scientific activi-ties, Chicago. He plans to be associatedwith the university as- consultant andadviser for medical education.

Urner Liddel, assistant director of theHughes Research Laboratories, Malibu,Calif., has been appointed chief of sci-ences for lunar and planetary programsat the National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration.

Charles E. Smith, dean of the Uni-versity of California's School of PublicHealth (Berkeley) and president of thethe California State Board of PublicHealth; Jose Alvarez Amezquita, Mex-ico's secretary of health and welfare;and Theodore F. Hatch, professor ofindustrial health engineering at the Uni-versity of Pittsburgh, have each re-ceived a $5000 Bronfman prize of theAmerican Public Health Association.The awards are presented annually for"international accomplishment in ap-plying new knowledge to the better-ment of human health."

Francis S. Johnson, manager of spacephysics research at Lockheed Missilesand Space Company, has been appoint-ed head of the recently established up-per atmosphere and space sciences di-vision at the Southwest Center forAdvanced Studies, Dallas, Tex.

John D. Spikes, professor and headof the department of experimental bi-ology at the University of Utah, hasrelinquished his administrative dutiesin order to devote full time to researchand teaching. He is succeeded by IvanM. Lytle, a member of the department.

Harry D. Goode, assistant districtgeologist with the U.S. Geological Sur-vey's branch of ground water office,Salt Lake City, has been appointed as-sociate professor of geology at the Uni-versity of Utah. He succeeds Ray E.Marsell, who has retired.

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Recent staff appointments at Hazle-ton Laboratories' primate and gnotobi-otic colonies, Falls Church, Va.:Herman G. Brant, technical director

of laboratory animal production anddevelopment at Taconic Farms, Ger-mantown, N.Y., as supervisor of thecolonies.

William T. Kerber, veterinary lab-oratory officer in the Virus-RickettsiaDivision, Fort Detrick, Md., as a veteri-narian.

C. W. Asling, professor of anatomyat the University of California (Berke-ley, is on leave until the summer of1963 at the Institut de Medecine Den-taire, Universite de Geneve, Switzer-land, under the auspices of the Gug-genheim Foundation.

R. B. Woodward, Donner professorof science at Harvard University, is thethird recipient of the medal for cre-ative research in organic chemistry, pre-sented annually by the Synthetic Or-ganic Chemical Manufacturers Associ-ation, New York.

Saul Kit, of the University of TexasM.D. Anderson Hospital and TumorInstitute, has been named professor ofbiochemistry and head of the new divi-sion of biochemical virology at BaylorUniversity College of Medicine, Hous-ton, Tex.

Gene M. Nordby, head of the Uni-versity of Arizona's department of civilengineering, has resigned to becomedean of the University of Oklahoma'sengineering college. He is succeeded byEmmett M. Laursen, professor of civilengineering at Arizona.

Robert Austrian, professor of medi-cine at the State University of NewYork's College of Medicine, has beennamed professor and chairman of theJohn Herr Musser department of re-search medicine at the University ofPennsylvania.

Louis P. Gerber, biochemist former-ly with the William T. ThompsonChemical Company, Los Angeles, andS. I. Dulkin, physiological chemist andformer technical director of Chem-Tech Laboratories, have establishedIndag Laboratories, Inc., Beverly Hills,Calif. It will serve as an industrial, agri-cultural, food, and pharmaceutical con-sulting firm.

Recent Deaths

Niels H. D. Bohr, 77; Nobel laureatein physics and head of the Institute ofTheoretical Physics at the Universityof Copenhagen; 18 Nov.

Bohr, born in Copenhagen, receivedhis M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the Uni-versity of Copenhagen, where hisfather was a professor of physiology.He then went to Britain to work withErnest Rutherford, who had estab-lished that the atom has a dense nucle-us with a positive charge and is sur-rounded by negatively charged elec-trons in sufficient numbers to make thecharges balance. In a-series of papersin 1913, Bohr laid the theoreticalfoundation for spectroscopy with hisconcept that excited atoms radiateenergy in the form of light. He laterhelped to clarify the basic principlescf quantum theory. In 1916 Bohrreturned to the university as professorof theoretical physics and was madedirector of the new Institute of Theo-retical Physics in 1920. In 1922, hereceived the Nobel prize for his re-search on the structure of the atomand nuclear radiation.

During the early part of 1939, Bohrworked with John A. Wheeler at Prince-ton and drafted a theory of nuclearfission that remains the basis for muchwork in atomic energy. After the war,he concentrated on promoting inter-national cooperation to harness atomicenergy for peaceful uses, and in 1955was instrumental in setting up the firstAtoms for Peace Conference in Ge-neva.He was chairman of the Danish

Atomic Energy Commission, and aleader in creating CERN, the EuropeanCenter for Nuclear Research. He was

the first recipient of the Ford Founda-tion's Atoms for Peace award in 1957.

Sara E. Branham, 74; retired chiefof the U.S. Public Health Service's bac-terial toxins section; 16 Nov.

Kenneth A. Clendenning, 47; re-search biochemist at the Institute ofMarine Resources, University of Cali-fornia, La Jolla; 12 Oct.

Robert H. Coleman; retired profes-sor of mathematics at the College ofCharleston (S.C.); 5 Nov.

Paul L. Errington, 60; professor ofzoology at Iowa State University; 5Nov.

-L. Lahut Uzman, 39; Bronson Croth-ers professor of neurology at HarvardUniversity; 7 Nov.

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omitted: Kosower's Z values, the vonRichter reaction, the isokinetic rela-tionship, reactions of isonitriles, andthe question of ortho : para ratio inaromatic nucleophilic substitution.

Despite these shortcomings, Hine'ssecond edition is the leading book inits field, both as a graduate level text-book and a reference work.

JOSEPH F. BUNNETTDepartment of Chemistry,Brown University

Introductory Textbook

Elements of Probability and Statistics.Frank L. Wolf. McGraw-Hill, NewYork, 1962. xv + 322 pp. $7.50.

This book, intended for use in anintroductory course in probability andstatistics, presupposes that the readerhas had only high school algebra. Loga-rithms are outside its scope, and theauthor devotes space to the elementarynotions of set algebra (using Venn dia-grams without naming them as such),the meaning of an exponent, the use ofthe summation notation, the reading ofalgebraic expressions involving sub-scripts, the pronunciation of the Greekletters used, significant digits, and in-equalities and absolute values. Thereader is, however, presumed to befamiliar with Euclidean geometry andthe process of interpolation, and he ispresumed to be well enough acquaintedwith physical principles to appreciatethe interpretation of variance as a mo-ment of inertia.The book does provide a good ele-

mentary introduction to the vocabularyof probability and statistics and to thecomputation and use of the, by now,classical formulas of statistical theory.The author states on page 165 that

up to that point, with the exception ofProblem 7-40 (dealing with the Poissondistribution) and the problems basedon this distribution, he has restrictedattention to experiments that have afinite number of possible outcomes; thisis not completely correct-for example,Problem 7-30 and Problem 7-83.The book contains a bibliography of

22 items, including ten paperbackbooks, an index, and tables of squareroots, binomial distribution (both indi-vidual terms and cumulative), randomdigits, cumulative normal distribution,chi-square distribution, F-distribution,and Student's t-distribution.

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Overall, the book gives the impres-sion of careful preparation and proof-reading. I found surprisingly few mis-prints. I enjoyed the sense of humormanifested by the limericks the authoruses to introduce some of the sections,his comment about the word scedastic,the imaginary dialogue between twocharacters, and his recommendationthat the reader refer to Halmos's bookon measure theory.

I believe the book will be a goodtext for classroom use at the level forwhich it is intended. For students witha better mathematical background,there are other books available, betterdesigned for their needs.

S. KULLBACKDepartment of Statistics,George Washington University,Washington, D.C.

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An interesting type of human mu-tation was reported by C. Baglioni(Naples), as the result of work withhemoglobin Lepore. His evidence in-dicates that the abnormal peptidechain is the product of a gene whichis part delta and part beta. The hy-brid is thought to have arisen by non-homologous crossing over.

In a review paper, H. Dintzis (JohnsHopkins) explained why protein bio-synthesis can be so well studied in thereticulocyte. From his own work hedescribed the assembly of the hemo-globin peptide chains as a sequentialprocess, proceeding stepwise from theamino group at the end of the chain.In the reticulocyte only 1 to 2 minutes(at 37°C) are required for the syn-thesis of a whole chain. On the otherhand, in cell-free systems preparedfrom reticulocytes, it appears that pep-tide chains are merely completed andthat the synthesis of few if any newchains is begun. This point was dis-puted by R. S. Schweet (Kentucky).

A. Rich (M.I.T.) demonstrated thataggregates of reticulocyte ribosomesare needed for the active synthesis ofhemoglobin. His electron micrographsdo indeed show aggregates of approxi-mately five ribosomes. Rich interpretsthese as being held together by astrand of messenger RNA. Each ribo-some is synthesizing one or more pep-tide chains as it moves along the mes-senger RNA-a stimulating idea. Thedata of P. A. Marks (Columbia) alsoshow that the aggregated ribosomesare those active in hemoglobin syn-thesis and that information for pro-tein synthesis is contained in a rela-tively stable form in these particles.The role of soluble RNA as the "adap-tor" in placing amino acids in sequenceon the messenger RNA template wasclearly demonstrated by G. von Ehren-stein (Johns Hopkins).

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22. Infectious Diseases of the Heartand Circulation, conf., New York, N.Y.(C. A. R. Connor, New York Heart As-soc., 10 Columbus Circle, New York 19)

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23-25. Elevated Temperature Mechan-ics, intern. conf., 3rd Navy StructuralMechanics Symp., New York, N.Y. (byinvitation). (A. M. Freudenthal, 624 MuddBldg., Columbia Univ., New York 27)

23-26. American Assoc. of PhysicsTeachers, New York, N.Y. (R. P. Winch,Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.)

23-26. American Group PsychotherapyAssoc., annual, Washington, D.C. (AGPA,1790 Broadway, New York 19)24-27. American Mathematical Soc.,

annual, Berkeley, Calif. (AMS, 190 HopeSt., Providence 6, R.I.)

26. Association for Symbolic Logic,Berkeley, Calif. (T. Hailperin, Dept. ofMathematics, Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem,Pa.)

26-28. Mathematical Assoc. of Amer-ica, annual, Berkeley, Calif. (H. M. Geh-man, Univ. of Buffalo, Buffalo 14, N.Y.)

27-1. American Inst. of Electrical En-gineers, winter general meeting, NewYork, N.Y. (R. S. Gardner, AIEE, 33 W.39 St., New York 18)

28-2. American Library Assoc., Chi-cago, Ill. (D. H. Clift, ALA, 50 E. HuronSt., Chicago 11)

28-2. Body Composition, conf., NewYork, N.Y. (J. Brozek, Dept. of Psychol-ogy, Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, Pa.)

30-1. Military Electronics, natl. winterconvention, Los Angeles, Calif. (F. P.Adler, Space Systems Div., Hughes Air-craft Co., Culver City, Calif.)

31-1. American Soc. for EngineeringEducation, college-industry conf., Atlanta,Ga. (W. L. Collins, Univ. of Illinois, Ur-bana)

31-1. Society of Rheology, annual west-ern regional meeting, Emeryville, Calif.(T. L. Smith, Stanford Research Inst.,Menlo Park, Calif.)

31-2. Western Soc. for Clinical Re-search, annual, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif.(H. R. Warner, Latter-day Saints Hospital,Dept. of Physiology, Salt Lake City 3,Utah)

February4-8. Rice Genetics and Cytogenetics,

symp., Los Bafnos, Laguna, Philippines.(Inter. Rice Research Inst., Manila Hotel,Manila, Philippines)

4-9. Recent Trends in Iron and SteelTechnology, symp., Jamshedpur, India.(Secretary, Indian Inst. of Metals, 31Chowringhee Rd., Calcutta, India)

4-20. Application of Science and Tech-nology for the Benefit of Less DevelopedAreas, U.N. conference, Geneva, Switzer-land. (Science Conference Staff, Agencyfor International Development, 826 StateDept. Annex 1, Washington 25)

5-14. International Radio Consulta-tive Committee, Plan Subcommittee forAsia, New Delhi, India. (V. Barthoni, 128rue de Lausanne, Geneva, Switzerland)

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Bourne, A. WhiteAging in the total organism: M. Landowne, G. Pincus, P.

Handler, E. W. BuLsseTheories of aging: N. W. Shock, H. Selye, P. Prioreschi,

B. L. Strehler, J. E. Birren, S. E. StumpfOral aspects of aging: R. F. Sognnaes, A. A. Dahlberg,

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Butcher, J. R. RingFinancing medical costs after age 65: J. T. FreemanDiscussions. Index

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8-18. United Nations Committee onIndustry and Natural Resources in Asiaand the Far East, Bangkok, Thailand.(S. Santitham, Rajadamnern Ave., Bang-kok)

10-16. Planned Parenthood, intern.conf., Singapore. (V. Houghton, Intern.Planned Parenthood Federation, 69 Ec-cleston Sq., London, S.W. 1, England)

11-14. American Soc. of Heating, Re-frigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engi-neers, New York, N.Y. (R. C. Cross, 345E. 47th St., New York 17)

11-14. Industrial Lubrication, intern.conf. and exhibit, London, England. (E.V. Paterson, Scientific Lubrication, 217aKensington High St., London W.8)

11-15. Quantum Electronics, intern.symp., Paris, France. (Secretariat, Troi-sieme Congres International' d'Electro-nique Quantique, 7 rue de Madrid, Paris80)

12-14. Lysozomes, symp. (by invita-tion), London, England. (Ciba Founda-tion, 41 Portland P1., London W.1)

13-15. Electrochemistry, 1st Australianconf., part I, Sydney, Australia. (F. Gut-mann, Physical Chemistry Dept., Univ.of New South Wales, Kensington, N.S.W.,Australia)

13-16. National Soc. of CollegeTeachers of Education, Chicago, Ill. (E.J. Clark, Indiana State College, TerreHaute)

14-15. American Soc. for Quality Con-trol, Textile and Needles Trades Div., an-nual conf., Clemson, S.C. (H. F. Littleton,c/o Charles H. Bacon Co., Lenoir City,Tenn.)

15-14 Apr. Aeronautics and Space, in-tern. exhibition, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (San-tos Dumont Foundation, Avenida IpirangaNo. 84, Sao Paulo)

16-23. Caribbean Dental Convention,Port of Spain, Trinidad. (A. V. Awon,43-45 Frederick St., Port of Spain)

17-21. Technical Assoc. of the Pulpand Paper Industry, annual, New York,N.Y. (TAPPI, 360 Lexington Ave., NewYork 17)

18-20. American Standards Assoc., natl.conf., New York, N.Y. (ASA, 10 E. 40St., New York 16)

18-20. Biophysical Soc., annual, NewYork, N.Y. (A. Mauro, Rockefeller Inst.,New York)

18-20. Electrochemistry, 1st Australianconf., part II, Hobart, Tasmania. (J. N.Baxter, Chemistry Dept., Univ. of Tas-mania, Hobart)

18-25. Expert Committee on FoodAdditives, FAO/WHO, Rome, Italy. (In-tern. Agency Liaison Branch, Office ofthe Director General, Food and Agricul-ture Organization, Viale delle Terme diCaracalla, Rome)

19-22. Radiochemistry, inter-Americanconf., Montevideo, Uruguay. (Pan Amer-ican Union, Washington 6)

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