THE PROGRESS <>F SCIENCE 



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THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



THE AMERICA \ ASSOCIATION FOR 



THE AD\ I VCEMEU T OF 

 SCIENCE. 



At the New Orleans meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science the council voted that 

 in addition to the regular winter meet- 

 ing, a summer meeting should be held 

 at Ithaca, X. Y., from June 29 to July 

 3. For such an experiment, and the 

 holding of more than one meeting a 

 year is avowedly an experiment, the 

 place is well chosen. Ithaca is a 

 university town and well adapted by 

 climate and situation for a summer 

 meeting. The campus, where these ses- 

 sions will be held, is green and well 

 shaded. It is nearly 1,000 feet above 

 sea level and overlooks from a height of 

 400 feet one of the most famous and 

 beautiful of the lakes of central New 

 York. 



In the immediate neighborhood of 

 Ithaca are many places of scenic as 

 well as scientific interest. At Taughan- 

 nock, about eight miles away, a water 

 fall, 215 feet in height, plunges into an 

 amphitheater the forest-topped walls of 

 which rise vertically more than 300 feet 

 above the bed of the stream. Lucifer 

 Falls at Enfield about the same dis- 

 tance and numerous other cataracts in 

 the glens formed by the tributaries of 

 ( avuga Lake are also of great interest 

 and beauty. The local committee is 

 arranging for various short excursions 

 to these places and also one to the 

 widely known sociological colony — the 

 George Junior Republic. Some of the 

 sections are planning to devote their 

 meetings exclusively to field work and 

 excursions. Papers will be read and 

 discussions held at the places visited 

 during the excursions. 



On Thursdav evening. June 2S. there 



will be an informal smoker at the 

 Town and Gown Club of Ithaca. On 

 Friday afternoon, June 29, the new 

 Physics Laboratory of Cornell Univer- 

 sity — Rockefeller Hall — will be opened 

 and several well-known men of science 

 will speak. On Monday evening, July 

 2, a public address, by Professor J. C. 

 Branner, of Stanford University, on 

 ' The Great California Earthquake,' un- 

 der the auspices of the society of the 

 Sigma Xi will commemorate the 

 twentieth anniversary of the founding 

 of that organization. Other public lec- 

 tures will be given by President David 

 Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, 

 on 'The San Francisco Disaster'; by 

 Professor Henry S. Carhart, of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan, on ' The South 

 African Meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science,' 

 and by Major General George W. Davis, 

 U.S.A., on ' The Great Canals of the 

 World.' 



In addition to the usual meetings of 



; sections, a number of special societies 

 will hold sessions in conjunction with 

 the American Association. Among 

 these are the Society for the Promotion 

 of Engineering Education, the Amer- 

 ican Physical Society, the American 



; Chemical Society, the Society for Chem- 

 ical Industry and the American Micro- 

 scopical Society. 



As has been said the holding of a 

 summer as well as a winter meeting 

 of the association is an experiment, 

 but it is an experiment which should 

 have the active cooperation of all those 

 who are interested in the advancement 

 and diffusion of science. Until 1902 

 the association met in the summer, and 

 other scientific societies met in groups 

 during the Christmas holidays. For a 

 large and technical meeting, the winter 

 is the best season, and a large citv 



