THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. 



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Martin A. Knapp, 



Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Vice-President for Social and 



Economic Science. 



science shall have become satisfactorily 

 organized within, then it will be pos- 

 sible for science as a whole to take its 

 proper place in public affairs. 



THE AFFILIATED SOCIETIES. 



Among the important societies which 

 met with the association were the 

 American Chemical Society, under 

 President Arthur A. Noyes; the Ameri- 

 can Physical Society, with President 

 Arthur A. Webster in the chair; the 

 A-tronomieal and Astrophysical So- 

 ciety of America, presided over by Pro- 

 fessor Simon Newcomb; the Geological 

 Society of America under President 

 John C. Branner; the newly organized 



American Geographers' Association, 

 Professor W. M. Davis presiding; and 

 the American Society of Naturalists 

 with its several affiliated societies, in- 

 cluding those devoted to botany, zool- 

 ogy, anatomy, physiology, bacteriology, 

 anthropology, psychology, philosophy, 

 etc. Xotable too was the interest 

 shown in the vigorous societies de- 

 voted to the application *of science, 

 in agriculture, horticulture, entomol- 

 ogy and other lines. The meeting of 

 the American Chemical Society, the 

 first to affiliate with the association, 

 was particularly successful, 240 chem- 

 ists having registered. It was neces- 

 sary to subdivide into smaller sub- 



