Shapley Heads Academy

Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Harvard Observatory, was reelected president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences yesterday.

Igor Strawinski, Serge Elisseeff, Werner W. Jaeger, and Archibald Macleish were among those elected as fellows. Percy W. Bridgman, Sidney B. Fay, Abbott P. Usher and Arthur N. Holcombe were among the officers chosen.