54 HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



Association for Maintaining the American Women's Table at the Zoo- 

 logical Station at Naples, and for Promoting Scientific Research 

 by Women. 



Address. Secretary (1904-1907) : Mrs. Ada Wing Mead, 283 Wayland 



Avenue, Providence, R. I. 

 History. Organized April 14, 1898. 



Ref.: Association for maintaining the American women's table, etc., 1898-1903. 

 n. p. n. d. 8. 



Meetings. In April of each year at one of the colleges represented on the general 

 committee. 



Membership. 15 corporate subscribers (colleges and associations) and 6 individual 

 subscribers (annual subscriptions, $50). 



Publications. 



None, except annual circular of information and a prize circular once 

 in two years. Distributed to leading scientists of the country and sent 

 on application. 



Research Funds and Prizes. Appointments for the table at Naples are 

 made by the executive committee, with the cooperation of a board of 

 advisors, to whom work presented as evidence of research may be sub- 

 mitted. Applications must be sent to the Secretary before March I of 

 the year for which the appointment is desired. Application blanks and 

 detailed information furnished by the Secretary. The association offers 

 biennially a prize of $1,000 for the best thesis presented by a woman on 

 a scientific subject, embodying the results of her independent laboratory 

 research in any part of the field covered by the biological, chemical, and 

 physical sciences. Competition for the next prize, to be awarded April, 

 1907, closes Dec. 31, 1906. Circular of information on application to 

 the Secretary. 



Association of American Anatomists. 



Address. Secretary-Treasurer : G. Carl Huber, 333 East Ann Street, Ann 

 Arbor, Mich. 



History. Organized in Washington, D. C., Sept. 17, 1888, on the occa- 

 sion of the meeting of the Congress of American Physicians and Sur- 

 geons in that city. 



Object. Advancement of anatomical sciences. 



Meetings. Annually at time and place determined by the executive committee. 



Membership. 166 (annual dues, $5) ; 12 honorary. 



