THE PRO GEE SS OF SCIENCE 



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Professor Ed. Suess, 

 Emeritus Professor of Geology in the University of Vienna. 



extended repoit, devoting many pages 

 to it. Nothing of that kind happens in 

 America. The general organization of 

 society here accounts for the absence of 

 social functions which can perhaps be 

 well spared, but it seems to be unfor- 

 tunate that a democratic society does 

 not take an active interest in the scien- 

 tific work which has made possible its 

 existence and on which it depends for 

 its extension and permanence. 



At Portsmouth, Professor E. A. 

 Schafer, the eminent physiologist of the 

 University of Edinburgh, was elected 

 to preside over the meeting to be held 

 next year at Dundee. The association 

 will meet the following year in Birm- 

 ingham, and in 1914 or 1915 a visit is 

 planned to Australia. The British As- 



sociation has in recent years met in 

 South Africa and in Canada, and in 

 this way fulfils its national and im- 

 perial functions better than the Amer- 

 ican Association, which has never met 

 i further west than Denver. It may be 

 hoped that our association will in 1915 

 meet on the Pacific coast and at 

 Hawaii. It might be possible to ar- 

 range that those members who were 

 able should proceed to Australasia to 

 attend the meetings there, while British 

 and Australian men of science might 

 join our association at Hawaii and in 

 California, with an opportunity to visit 

 the San Francisco Exposition, which 

 should aim to surpass the St. Louis Ex- 

 position in its scientific congresses. 



