TEE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. 



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H. P. Bowditi II, 



Professor of Physiology, Harvard Medical School, Vice-President for Physiology and 



Experimental. Medicine. 



est not only comes short of what it 

 should be, in view of the real impor- 

 tance of science in our life and the 

 possible value of the association to the 

 nation, but it at present conies far 

 short of what it is destined to become, 

 we venture to hope, in the not distant 

 future. All sympathizers witli sc'ence, 

 that is, all intelligent sympathizers 

 with civilization, should be enrolled as 

 members of the association. The pres- 

 ent membership of about 4..000 should 

 be speedily doubled, if not tripled, if 

 the association is to do the work for 

 which it is fitted. Its growth has been 

 steady, but not commensurate with the 

 meowing needs of American science. 



Since the last meeting 377 new mem- 

 bers have been added. Especially de- 

 sirable is it that all scientific workers 

 be members of the association as well 

 as of their respective technical societies. 

 It may not be generally known that 

 any scientific society so desiring may, 

 by vote of the council, become affiliated 

 with the central association, without in 

 the least sacrificing its autonomy, 

 thereby gaining not only the advantage 

 of profiting by the arrangements for 

 the meetings which the association un- 

 dertakes, but securing representation 

 in the counicil in proportion to the 

 number of its members enrolled as fel- 

 low^ of the association. 



