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ogy and experimental medicine, 166; 

 education. 30. Chemistry is thus by 

 far the best represented of the sciences, 

 and social and economic science the 

 weakest. The former fact is in part 

 accounted for by the industrial appli- 

 cations of chemistry, but it also repre- 

 sents efficient organization and close 

 affiliation between pure, and applied 

 science. There must be nearly as many 

 men engaged in physics and its appli- 

 cations, but the number of papers was 

 only a fifth as large. Economics and 

 sociology are not adequately repre- 

 sented at the meetings of the associa- 

 tion because the national societies con- 

 cerned with these subjects are meeting 

 elsewhere. 



Dr. T. C. Chamberlin, the retiring 

 president, in his address given in 

 Sanders Theater of Harvard University 

 on the first day of the meeting was 

 able to select a topic on which he is 

 the leading expert authority and which 

 is of broad human interest. The ad- 

 dress was entitled " A Geologic h ore- 

 cast of the Future Opportunities of 

 our Race " and reviewed the relations 

 of the nebular hypothesis and his own 

 planetesimal hypothesis of the origin 

 of the solar system and the earth to 

 the geological history of the earth and 

 the life on it. The newer theories give 

 the earth a long past in which life has 

 been supported and a long future in 

 which it can be supported not seriously 

 threatened by catastrophies. The high- 

 est development and the greatest lon- 

 gevity of the race depend mainly on 

 moral purpose and the resources of 

 research which now for the first time 

 are being clearly manifested. 



The president of the meeting, Presi- 

 dent David Starr Jordan, of Stanford 

 University, eminent equally as a zoolo- 

 gist and for his services to education, 

 handed on the office to Professor A. A. 

 Michelson, of the University of Chi- 

 cago, one of the world's great physi- 

 cists, according to the awards of the 

 Xobel prizes the most eminent scientific 

 man of America. He will preside at 



the meeting to be held next year at 

 Minneapolis and will give the annual 

 address at the meeting to be held the 

 following year at Baltimore. We are 

 able to reproduce his portrait and the 

 portraits of the vice-presidents of the 

 Baltimore meetings, as it is worth 

 while to make the acquaintance even 

 through a picture of those who hold 

 an office which indicates both activity 

 in research and leadership in scientific 

 organization. 



DEDICATIOX OF THE ADMINIS- 

 TRATION BUILDING OF THE 

 CARNEGIE INSTITUTION 

 OF WASHINGTO\ 



The Administration Building of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 situated on the southeast corner of 

 Sixteenth and P Streets. Washington, 

 D. C, was dedicated December 13, 

 1909. The brief .ceremonies of the occa- 

 sion were conducted in the assembly 

 room of the building. Dr. John S. 

 Billings, chairman of the board of trus- 

 tees, presided; an account of the origin 

 and development of the institution was 

 given by Hon. Elihu Root, vice-chair- 

 man; and remarks in appreciation of 

 the work already accomplished by the 

 institution were made by Mr. Andrew- 

 Carnegie, the founder. Professor 

 George E. Hale, director of the Solar 

 Observatory of the institution, then 

 gave a lecture by aid of lantern illus- 

 t rations of the work already done in 

 his department of investigation. 



At the close of these exercises the 

 trustees and guests were invited to 

 inspect exhibits of the ten departments 

 of investigation and of the divisions of 

 publication and administration, in- 

 stalled in the rooms on the uppermost 

 (loor of the building. During ihe con- 

 versazione which followed refreshments 

 were served on the main floor of the 

 building. Since the assembly room 

 will seat only about two hundred 

 people, the lecture of Professor Hale 

 was repeated during the afternoon of 

 the following day for the benefit espe- 



