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pologists were meeting' at Ithaca, the after careful consideration at Phila- 

 geologists at Ottawa and the zoologists delphia and at New Orleans, is an im- 

 at Ann Arbor. On the other hand, the portant movement, showing the growth 

 chemists had their usual strong meet- of science in the country and the in- 

 ing with a program of eighty-two titles, crease in the influence of the associa- 

 tion which has now 4,300 members. 

 The vice-presidents elected are : 



Section A — Dr. Edward Kasner, New York 

 City. 



Section B— Professor \V. C. Sabine, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. 



Section C — xMr. Clifford Richardson, New 

 York City. 



Section D — Mr. W. R. Warner, Cleveland, O. 



Section E — Professor A. C. Lane, Lansing, 

 Mich. 



Section F — Professor E. G. Conklin Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. 



Section G— Dr. D. T. MacDougal, Washing- 

 ington. D. C. 



Section H— Professor Hugo Miinsterberg, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



Section I— Mr. Chas. A. Conant, New York 

 City. 



Section K— Dr. Simon Flexner, New York 

 City. 



Dr. W. H. Welch, professor of pa- 

 thology in the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, was elected president of the asso- 

 ciation to preside at the Ithaca and 

 Now York meetings. His portrait is 



C. F. Mabery, Professor ot Chemistry, Case 

 School of Applied Science, Chairman of the 

 Section of Chemistry. 



The section of social and economic sci- 

 ence also presented a full and good list 

 of papers. Perhaps the most appro- 

 priate and interesting program was 

 that of the section of physiology and 

 experimental medicine, which arranged 

 a discussion of yellow-fever and other 

 insect-borne diseases, taken part in by 

 some of those who have contributed in 

 an important measure to our knowledge 

 of these diseases, including Dr. James 

 Carroll, who made the original experi- 

 ments proving that yellow fever is 

 transmitted by the mosquito and not 

 by direct contagion. 



The association decided to hold a 

 special meeting at Ithaca at the end 

 of June, and to hold its regular annual 

 meeting at New York next winter. The 



George Grant McCurdy, Lecturer in An- 

 thropology, Yale University; Chairman of 

 decision to hold two meetings, reached tne g ect i n of Anthropology. 



