The Rochester < X. Y.) -Ithaca Meeting 149 



Affiliated with Section on Medical Sciences 



Society of American Bacteriologists. Central New York State P. ranch 



(26 -f- 10 papers) 

 Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine, Western New York 



Branch (20 papers) 



Affiliated ivith Section on Agriculture 



American Society for Horticultural Science (0 + 9 papers) 

 Association of Official Seed Analysts (26 papers) 



General Sessions 



C. E. K. Mees, Eastman Kodak Company. '"Color Photograph)-." 



Charles Camsell, Deputy Minister of Mines of the Dominion of Canada. 

 "A 4000 Mile Flight Over Northwestern Canada in August, 1935." (Fifth 

 Hector Maiben lecture.) 



Carl Snyder, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. "The Role of Capi- 

 talism in Civilization." 



Society of the Sigma Xi Semi-Centennial General Session. ( 1 ) Liv- 

 ingston Farrand, president of Cornell University: "Greetings"; (2) Edwin 

 G. Conklin, president of the Association : "The American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science and the Society of the Sigma Xi"; (3) W. F. 

 Durand, president of the Society of the Sigma Xi: "Response"; (4) Ed- 

 ward Ellery, Union College : "A Brief History of the Sigma Xi" ; 

 (5) Frank Van Vleck, Washington, D. C. (one of the founders of the 

 Sigma Xi) : "Reminiscences"; (6) Karl T. Compton, president of Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology: "The Service of Sigma Xi in the Uni- 

 versities of the Future." Sigma Xi Quarterly 24 : No. 2. 



Symposia 



"Problems of Current Interest to Physics and Geology" (6 papers). Sec- 

 tion on Physics and Section on Geology and Geography. 



"Recent Developments in Weather Forecasting" (4 papers and demon- 

 stration of release of two high altitude balloons). Section on Physics and 

 American Meteorological Society. 



"Biological Effects of Radiation" (3 papers). Section on Physics. 



"Physiology of Reproduction in Higher Plants" (5 papers). American 

 Society of Plant Physiologists, Physiological Section of Botanical Society 

 of America and American Society for Horticultural Science. 



"Scientific Aspects of Flood Control" (3 papers). Ecological Society 

 of America. Occasional Publications of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, No. 3. Supplement to Science, vol. 84. 



