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abstracts may be used as page proof and returned corrected for the 

 January number of the Anatomical Record. 



The Zoological Laboratory at Columbia University has been secured 

 for exhibits and demonstrations and members are especially urged to 

 contribute to this important part of the program. Titles of exhibits 

 should be sent in not later than December i to be listed on the program. 



Headquarters of the Society will be the Hotel Astor, 43rd Street and 

 Broadway. Single rooms, without bath, for one person, $2.50; for two 

 persons, $3.50. Single rooms, with bath, for one person, $3.50; for 

 two persons, $4.50. 



Rooms in the dormitories of Columbia University and Barnard Col- 

 lege may be had at a cost of $i per day by applying to Professor H. E. 

 Crampton, Chairman, Columbia University Committee, American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, New York City. CASWELL GRAVE, Secretary, 

 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. 



Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting, American Society of Naturalists. 



The American Society of Naturalists, in affiliation with the Ameri- 

 can Association of Anatomists, the American Society of Zoologists, 

 and the Botanical Society of America, will hold its thirty-fourth annual 

 meeting at New York, under the auspices of Columbia University, on 

 Friday, December 29, 1916, and, by invitation of the Carnegie Station 

 for Experimental Evolution, at Cold Spring Harbor on Saturday, De- 

 cember 30th. 



The Botanical Society of America will place the genetical papers of 

 its program on Thursday morning, December 28th, and the American 

 Society of Zoologists will group its genetical papers in a program for 

 Thursday afternoon. By this arrangement there will be sessions of 

 genetical interest on the day preceding the meetings of the Naturalists 

 and continuing with the Naturalists' programs for Friday and Satur- 

 day. 



The Friday morning session of the Naturalists will be open for 

 papers on evolution, genetics and related subjects from members or 

 invited guests, titles of which with estimated length of delivery must 

 be in the hands of the Secretary by December ist. Requests for micro- 

 scopes or for space for demonstrations should also be sent to the Sec- 

 retary. 



The program of Friday afternoon will be a symposium on Biology 

 and Kational Existence, with papers by Stewart Paton, \Y. J. Spill- 

 man, V. L. Kellogg, Jacques Loeb and E. G. Conklin. 



The Naturalists' dinner, in which members of the affiliated societies 

 are invited to participate, will be held in the evening of Friday. Hotel 

 Manhattan. Price, $3.00. 



