THE PRO GEE SS OF SCIENCE 



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THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



THE CONVOCATION WEEK MEET- 

 ING AT CHICAGO 



The American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science and the na- 

 tional societies affiliated with it meet 

 this year at Chicago, beginning on 

 Monday, December 30. Since the Amer- 

 ican Association changed the time of 

 its meeting from summer to winter 

 and entered into affiliation with the 

 societies that had been in the habit 

 of meeting during the Christmas holi- 

 days, there have been three large meet- 

 ings of scientific men — the first at 

 Washington five years ago, the second 

 at Philadelphia three years ago and 

 the third in New York City one year 

 ago. The numbers of members of the 

 association registered at these three 

 meetings were, respectively, 975, 890 

 and 934. The registration, however, 

 does not give nearly the total attend- 

 ance, as many members of the associa- 



tion do not register, and all members 

 of the affiliated societies are not mem- 

 bers of the association. It is probable 

 that the attendance of scientific men 

 at each of these three meetings was 

 over 1,500, and there is reason to hope 

 that the approaching meeting at Chi- 

 cago will be as large and as important 

 from the scientific point of view as the 

 meetings on the Atlantic seaboard. 



The American Association is divided 

 into eleven sections, covering the range 

 of the natural and exact sciences. It 

 includes sections for anthropology and 

 psychology, for sociology and economic 

 science, and for education, which last 

 section holds its first meeting this year. 

 The affiliated societies that meet in 

 Chicago include, besides the American 

 Society of Naturalists, the national so- 

 cieties devoted to physics, chemistry, 

 geography, entomology, bacteriology, 

 physiology, anatomy, botany, psychol- 

 ogy and anthropology, and the western 



Northeast Corner of the Campus of the University of Chicago. 



