THE PROGRESS OE SCIENCE 



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E. O. Lovett, Ph.D., 

 Professor of Astronomy at Princeton Univer- 

 sity. Retiring Vice-president and Chair- 

 man of the Section of Astronomy and 

 Mathematics. President-elect 

 of the Rice Institute. 



It will be noted that in recent years 

 the association has fulfilled its mission 

 as a national organization by meeting 

 as far west as Denver and as far south 

 as New Orleans. But the registration 

 has been comparatively small. At the 

 present Chicago meeting the registra- 

 tion was 725, and the general secretary 

 estimates that this represents an at- 

 tendance of scientific men close to two 

 thousand. This is only about twenty 

 per cent, less than at the largest east- 

 ern meetings. 



The magnitude of the meeting is 

 mainly significant as the most con- 

 venient measure of its scientific impor- 

 tance. There were 159 papers on the 

 programs of the American Chemical 

 Society, the American Society of Bo- 

 tanical Chemists and the Chemical Sec- 

 tion of the Association. While the 

 chemists are the largest group, the 

 programs of special papers in other 

 sciences were in proportion. There 

 were also many general addresses and 

 less technical sessions. First should 

 be mentioned the address of the re- 



tiring president of the association, Dr. 



1 W. H. Welch, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, who traced with character- 

 istic charm and clearness the historical 

 interdependence of medicine and other 

 sciences of nature. The standard set 

 by this address was maintained by the 

 chairmen of the sections and the presi- 

 dents of the affiliated societies. Among 

 the general discussions should be men- 

 tioned that before the American So- 

 ciety of Naturalists on cooperation in 

 biological research, and those before 

 sections of the association on public 

 health, immunity and the teaching of 

 mathematics to students of engineering. 

 The well organized and interesting ses- 

 sions of the newly organized section of 

 education, with the address of its first 

 chairman, Dr. Elmer E. Brown, United 



i States Commissioner of Education, de- 

 serve special mention. 



The American Association is becom- 

 ing increasingly a center for affiliation 

 and organization, the special programs 



Dayton C Miller, 



Professor of Physics, Case School of Applied 



Science. Retiring Vice-president and 



Chairman of the Section 



of Physics. 



