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ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ELECT HARLOW SHAPLEY TO COUNCIL

Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, was one of the two new members elected for three years to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences at the closing session Wednesday of the annual meeting at Washington.

Among the 14 new members elected to the Academy at the same time are Irving Widmer Bailey '07, Professor of Plant Anatomy at the Bussey Institute, and James Bryant Conant '13, Professor of Chemistry at Harvard.

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