i iK Resolutions Passed by the Council 



Resolution on Honorary Junior Membership 



Adopted by the Council. June 28, 1938 



Resolved, That the officers of the Association be authorized and instructed to offer 

 to each of the affiliated Academies of Science the privilege of nominating for annual 

 Honorary Junior Membership in the Association one hoy and one girl from its junior 

 academy or, if it has no junior academy, from junior science clubs within its territory; 

 and that the Association in thus providing for Honorary Junior Memberships shall ar- 

 range that during the period of honorary membership the honorary junior member shall 

 pay no entrance fee or dues, shall receive a suitable certificate of membership, the four 

 copies of Science containing the preliminary announcements and reports of the meet- 

 ings, the programs of the meetings ; and also Science News Letter provided through the 

 courtesy of Science Service. 



Resolution Supporting the Holding of International Congresses 



Adopted by the Council, June 27, 1938 



Whereas, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, realizing the 

 fact that the holding of International Congresses or meetings for the purpose of dis- 

 cussing science and human welfare serves fundamentally to advance understanding 

 among the nations, hereby approves in principle lending its influence and support to 

 further the plans of such congresses or meetings when arranged or sponsored by any 

 of its affiliated societies or other organizations of corresponding standing. 



Resolution in Memorial to Earl Baldwin McKinley 



Approved by the Council, December 27, 1938 



in the death of Earl Baldwin McKinley science in America suffered an irreparable 

 loss. When on July 29 the Hawaiian Clipper disappeared in the China Sea, it brought 

 to a tragic and untimely end the life of this able and devoted worker who had rendered 

 signal services in his own country and in distant lands to the advancement of science 

 and to the conquest of disease. 



Trained in arts and medicine at the University of Michigan by distinguished teachers 

 and investigators, McKinley was drafted into the faculty of the university even before 

 he had received the medical degree. Rapidly new opportunities offered themselves to 

 him. Research in the tropics of Orient and Occident made him familiar at first hand 

 with the great plagues of man. A keen observer and able interpreter, he promptly won 

 recognition and support for his research projects. With breadth of vision granted only 

 to the few, he sensed intuitively the significant lines of attack on great problems in 

 bacteriology, tropical medicine and public health. 



While he gave distinguished services to several universities in this country, he spent 

 a large part of a short but eventful life in the tropics ; and only a year ago returned 

 from a sabbatical year devoted to experimental work on leprosy. His last great venture 

 sought to determine the influence of upper air currents in the transportation and dis- 

 persal of disease germs. Suddenly with the epoch making flight westward nearly com- 

 pleted, and in the company with another distinguished scientist and member of the 

 American Association, Fred C. Meier, some unknown disaster closed the record. In 



