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organization. The members on the 

 Pacific coast, who number about 500, 

 were authorized to make arrangements 

 for a general meeting at the time of 

 the Panama Pacific Exposition of 1915, 

 and if they see fit to hold annual sec- 

 tional scientific meetings. All institu- 

 tions engaged in scientific research were 

 requested to send delegates to the con- 

 vocation-week meetings, paying their 

 expenses when possible. In addition 

 to the permanent secretary and the 

 assistant secretary there was made pro- 

 vision for an associate secretary, who 



Dr. Duncan S. Johnson, 



Professor of Botany at the Johns Hopkins 



University, Vice-president for the 



Section of Botany. 



shall devote his entire time to the asso- 

 ciation and to the organization of sci- 

 entific men. 



The high scientific standing of the 

 men responsible for the conduct of the 

 work of the association is shown by 

 the officers annually elected. We are 

 able to reproduce here portraits of 

 several of those who presided over the 

 sections at the Cleveland meeting. The 

 president of the association, Professor 

 Edward C. Pickering, director of the 

 Harvard College Observatory, is able 

 to transfer this high office to Professor 



John Hays Hammond, LL.D., 



Vice-president of the Section of Social 



and Economic Science. 



De. J. J. R. McLeod, 



Professor of Physiology at the Western 



Reserve University, Vice-president 



for the Section of Physiology. 



