74 The Council 



preliminary announcements and reports of the meetings of the Association 

 and a subscription to Science News Letter during the year of their member- 

 ship. For a complete list of honorary junior members see page 214. 



Annual Dues of Members 



The annual dues of annual members and fellows are $5 per year, payable 

 in advance. Of these dues, $3 pays for a subscription to either Science or 

 The Scientific Monthly. The fiscal year of the Association is from October 1 

 to September 30. The subscription to Science or The Scientific Monthly 

 going with each membership is for the calendar year beginning three months 

 after the membership year beginning on October 1. New volumes of both 

 Science and The Scientific Monthly begin with the calendar year. 



Of the dues paid by each member of the Pacific Division and the South- 

 western Division, $1 goes to the respective division for office expenses. 



The Council 



The control of the Association, including the election of officers, the elec- 

 tion of members and fellows, the determining of places and dates of meet- 

 ings, the establishing of policies and the appropriation of funds, is vested in 

 the Council of the Association. 



The Council consists of the President, the Vice Presidents, the Permanent 

 Secretary, the General Secretary, the secretaries of the Sections, the Treas- 

 urer, the members of the Executive Committee, a representative from each 

 of the two divisions of the Association, eight fellows, two of whom are elected 

 annually by the Council for a term of four years, two from each affiliated 

 society having more than 100 members who are fellows of the Association, 

 and one from each of the other affiliated societies and from each affiliated 

 academy of science. There are members of the Council representing every 

 major field of science and interest of the Association. The great majority of 

 the members of the Council are elected by the sections and affiliated societies 

 which are entirely independent of the Executive Committee and the general 

 officers of the Association. It would be difficult to lodge the power of an 

 organization having more than 21,000 members in a more representative and 

 democratically elected body than the Council. 



The scientific interests of the general officers, the Executive Committee, 

 the eight elected members of the Council, the representatives of the divisions 

 of the Association, the representatives of such general organizations as 

 American Association of University Professors, and the representatives of 

 the affiliated academies of science cannot be given any fixed distribution 

 among the sciences because they vary from time to time. There are 66 such 

 members of the Council, and there are 174 others whose interests are dis- 

 tributed among the major scientific fields as follows: mathematics, 7; 



