The election of Dr. Francis Weld Peabody '03, Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, to a membership on the board of scientific directors of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research was announced yesterday.

Dr. Peabody is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a trustee of the China medical board of the Rockefeller Foundation. He was graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1907. He served as a major in the United States medical corps in the war and was a member of the Red Cross commission to Roumania.

From 1911 to 1915, Dr. Peabody was on the staff of the Rockefeller Institute Hospital and was engaged in research work in medicine. He is one of the foremost scientists in the country in this field or research. He is at present a director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory in Boston as well as a member of the Medical School Faculty.