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the association has hitherto been able 

 to obtain and should lead many mem- 

 bers to take advantage of it. New 

 Orleans can be reached from New York 

 City by a journey of two nights and 

 one day. 



The first general session of the asso- 

 ciation convenes on the morning of Fri- 

 day, December 29, when the members 

 will be welcomed by the governor of the 

 state, the mayor of the city and the 

 president of Tulane University, to 

 whom the president-elect, Professor C. 

 M. Woodward, of Washington Univer- 

 sity, will reply. The retiring presi- 

 dent, Professor G. W. Fallow, of Har- 

 vard University, will give an address 

 in the evening on ' The popular concep- 

 tion of the scientific man at the present 

 day.' Each of the ten sections of the 

 association will offer an attractive sci- 

 entific program, and arrangements have 

 been made for numerous excursions, re- 

 ceptions and the like. Most of the 

 meetings will be held at the Tulane 

 University, an institution which in re- 

 cent years has made great progress, 



which on the material side is shown by 

 the illustrations here given. 



The American Chemical Society, the 

 Botanical Society of America and sev- 

 eral other scientific societies meet in 

 affiliation with the associaticn, but 

 there is this year a wide scattering of 

 the societies which last year met to- 

 gether in Philadelphia in convocation 

 week. The American Society of Nat- 

 uralists, with the special societies de- 

 voted to zoology, botany, physiology, 

 bacteriology and anatomy, meet to- 

 gether at the University of Michigan; 

 the societies devoted to mathematics, 

 astronomy, physics and paleontology 

 meet in New York City; the students 

 of philosophy and psychology go to 

 Harvard University, where a new build- 

 I ing to be devoted to these subjects is 

 to be formally opened; the anthropol- 

 ogists meet in Ithaca, and the geol- 

 ogists at Ottawa. 



There are certain attractions in a 

 meeting of scientific men having com- 

 mon interests at a small university 

 town that a large assemblage in a city 



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