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J. McKeen Cattell and Josephine Owen Cattell. Dr. and Mrs. Cattell retain 

 full control as editors and publishers of these journals until they voluntarily 

 relinquish control of them or until Dr. Cattell's death. When control of them 

 passes to the Association, the Association, under the terms of an agreement 

 entered into at the time of the transfer of title, will pay J. McKeen Cattell 

 and Josephine Owen Cattell each year for a period of ten years one-half of 

 the average annual net income of each of these journals for the pre- 

 ceding five years. In determining the net income no charge is to be made for 

 the services of Dr. Cattell and Mrs. Cattell to these journals as editors and 

 publishers. 



Science is a weekly journal now in its ninety-second volume and has been 

 the official journal of the Association since 1900. The Scientific Monthly is 

 a 96-page illustrated journal now in its fifty-first volume. Each member of 

 the Association receives with his membership a subscription to either Science 

 or The Scientific MontJily, at his option. To nonmembers the annual sub- 

 scription to Science is $6.00 and to The Scientific Monthly, $5.00. 



The Association Symposia. In January, 1934, the Science Press pub- 

 lished as a supplement to Science a report on "The Protection by Patents of 

 Scientific Discoveries" that had been submitted by the Committee on Patents, 

 Copyrights and Trade Marks, consisting of Joseph Rossman, Chairman, 

 K. G. Cottrell, A. W. Hull and A. F. Woods. This report was published 

 under the general title "Occasional Publications of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science," No. 1, and appeared as a supplement to 

 Science, vol. 79. In the same year a symposium on "Physical and Chemical 

 Changes in Nerve During Activity" was published as No. 2 of this series. 

 The third on "The Scientific Aspects of Flood Control" was published in 

 1936. The first two of these publications are out of print. The fourth, a sym- 

 posium on "Some Fundamental Aspects of the Cancer Problem," was pub- 

 lished in June, 1937. Copies of this 248-page volume are still available. 



Financial responsibility for the publication of the first four of the "Occa- 

 sional Publications of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science" was assumed by the Science Press. Since other symposia of high 

 merit were being organized for presentation at meetings of the Association, 

 it appeared likely that their publication might assume considerable propor- 

 tions. After considerable discussion the Council passed the following resolu- 

 tion on December 27, 1937: "That the Association assume responsibility for 

 the publication of such symposia as shall be passed upon and approved by 

 the Executive Committee". At the same meeting, the Council approved the 

 recommendation of the Executive Committee "that the Association assume 

 full responsibility for the publication of the Acid-fast Bacteria [later called 

 Tuberculosis and Leprosy] symposium presented at the Denver meeting, 

 June, 1937." The Association has assumed full responsibility for all its later 



