Prof. Romer Selected President of A.A.A.S.

Alfred S. Romer, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard, has been elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The A.A.A.S, an affiliation of 300 societies with 90,000 individual members, elected Romer at its meeting in Montreal last Dec. 26-31.

Romer, an authority on vertebrate animals, was director of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1946-61. His research has centered on the amphibians and reptiles of the Permian period (220-225 million years ago). His study of pelycosaurs has cast light on the remote origin of mammals. Two of his works, "The Vertebrate Body" and "Vertebrate Paleontology" have become standard texts in many universities.