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the states of Washington, Oregon, Cali- 

 fornia, Idalio, Utah, Nevada and Ari- 

 zona; in Mexico, Alaska, the Hawaiian 

 and Pliilippine Islands. Xo fee is as- 

 sessed upon members of the Pacific Di- 

 vision in addition to that paid by reg- 

 ular members elsewhere, and members 

 enjoy all the benefits of relation with 

 the parent body, as well as with the Pa- 

 cific Division. Tjie various fields of 

 scientific re^-earch are represented by 

 affiliations with local scientific societies. 

 Several of these societies are branches 

 of national organizations. Sections of 

 the division may be established in any 

 field not covered Ijy a regularly organ- 

 ized society. 



The societies which have already 

 allied tlieniselves with the Pacific Di- 

 vision are: the California Academy of 

 Sciences, the Technical Society of the 

 Pacific Coast, the Seismologieal Society 

 of America, the Cooper Ornithological 

 Club, the Cordilleran Section of the 

 Geological Society of America, the Pa- 

 cific Coast Paleontologieal Society, the 

 Astronomical Society of the Pacific 

 Coast, tlie Biological Society of the Pa- 

 cific, the Paget Sound Section of the 

 American Chemical Society, the San 

 Francisco Section of the Archeological 

 Institute of America, and the Pacific 

 Slope Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists. 



In its scope the Pacific Division pur- 

 poses to enlist the support of all those 

 within the Pacific region who are inter- 

 ested in scientific matters and to estab- 

 lish affiliations with societies organized 

 in this region for the advancement of 

 scientific work and knowledge. 



TEE SAN FBANCISCO MEETING 

 OF THE AJIEFJCAN ASSOCIA- 

 TION FOE THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE 



The American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science determined at 

 the Cleveland meeting, in January, 

 3 913. to hold a special meeting in San 

 Francisco and vicinity during the year 

 of the Panama-Pacific International 

 Exposition at San Francisco and of the 



I'aiiania-Califoruia Exposition at San 

 Diego. Tlie Pacific Coast Committee 

 of the American Association in charge 

 of this meeting has chosen the week be- 

 ginning Monday, August 2, as the time 

 for the meeting. The general sessions 

 will l>e held in San Francisco, while the 

 joint meetings of sections and of so- 

 cieties and the special meetings of so- 

 cieties will be held at the University of 

 California in Berkeley, and on Wednes- 

 day, August 4, at Stanford University, 

 rear Palo Alto. 



This will be the first meeting of tlie 

 American Association to be held west 

 of the Rocky Mountains. It will, more- 

 over, be in a sense a part of the cele- 

 bration commemorating the completion 

 of the Panama Canal. Special atten- 

 tion will be given to investigations of 

 world-wide interest for which materials 

 are to be found upon the liorders of the 

 Pacific. Many of the scientific prob- 

 lems of the west, though peculiar to the 

 region, are of very general interest in 

 their bearing upon fundamental ques- 

 tions of research. The program for the 

 San Francisco nieeting will be com- 

 posed to a considerable extent of contri- 

 butions relating to such questions of 

 far-reaching significance. Discussions 

 of other important scientific topics will 

 also be presented. 



The opening session of the meeting 

 will be held at the Scottish Rite Audi- 

 torium in San Francisco at 10 a.m., 

 Monday, August 2. A general reception 

 will be tendered the visiting members 

 of the association that evening. Four 

 notable addresses are planned for the 

 general evening sessions of the week. 

 Recent developments in oceanographic 

 research will be presented by Dr. 

 Fridtjof Xansen, of Norway. Professor 

 R. A. Daly, of Harvard University, will 

 offer an address upon geologic and bio- 

 logic problems of the islands of the 

 south Pacific ocean. Professor AV. B. 

 Scott, of Princeton University, will dis- 

 cuss the influence of crustal movement 

 in the region of the Panama Canal on 

 the paleontologic relations of North 

 and South America. Dr. Paul S. 

 Reinsch, American ambassador to 



