Dr. Julian Huxley, after waiting in America seven weeks for
a seat on a Clipper (can Britain and America, with a joint aeroplane- output more than twice Germany's, not produce enough Clippers for a proper transatlantic service?) has got hbme in time for the annual meeting of the Zoological Society, at which his position as secretary of the Society will be decided. Actually, the issue has been con- siderably widened. The Council having announced—with, so far as I know, no reasons given—that Dr. Huxley's services were to be dispensed with, a section of very differently-minded Fellows of the Society has launched a movement designed to replace the existing officers and council by a more progressive panel, which will certainly not be unappreciative of Dr. Huxley's distinguished services. The fact is that most people would be hard put to it to give the name of a single officer of the Society except the secretary's own ; that all the world knows. Between keeping the council and losing the secretary on the one hand and changing the council and keeping the secretary there seems little enough room for hesitation. Inci- dentally, it will be an immense gain to have Dr. Huxley back in the Brains Trust after his long absence.
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