The Sax Diego, Calif., Meeting t8] 



Association of Pacific Coast Geographers ( 14 papers ) 



( )ceanographic Society of the Pacific (8 papers) 



American Association of Economic Entomologists, Pacific Slope Branch 

 ( 15 papers) 



American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Western Division 



Pacific Coast Entomological Society 



Western Society of Naturalists (9 papers) 



American Phytopathological Society, Pacific Division (24 papers) 



American Society of Plant Physiologists, Western Section (35 papers ) 



Botanical Society of America, Pacific Section (25 papers) 



Ecological Society of America ( 14 papers ) 



American Anthropological Association, Pacific Division ( 17 papers) 



Society of American P>acteriologists, Southern California Section 

 ( 10 papers) 



Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Pacific Coast Branch 

 and Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Southern Cali- 

 fornia Branch (8 papers) 



Western Society of Soil Science (20 papers) 



General Sessions 



J. S. Plaskett, Director, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria. 

 B. C. "Modern Conceptions of the Stellar System." (Address of retiring 

 president of the Pacific Division.) 



B. O. Raulston, University of California, Los Angeles ; A. J. Carlson, 

 University of Chicago ; and Harry Beal Torrey, Stanford" University, were 

 the speakers on a general session symposium on "Animal Experimentation." 

 Science 88 : 245-250. 1938. 



John B. Leighly, University of California, Berkeley ; Ernst Antevs, Globe, 

 Arizona, Merrill K. Bennett, Stanford University, and C. M. Reynolds, 

 Stanford University, were the participants in a general session symposium 

 on "Climate and Man." 



C. Skottsberg, Botanical Garden, Gothenburg, Sweden. "The Distribu- 

 tion of Flowering Plants Over the Pacific Ocean and Its Significance." 



Special Reports on Scientific Progress 



J. A. Anderson, Mount Wilson Observatory. "Recent Instrumental De- 

 velopments in Astronomy." 



H. U. Sverdrup, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. "Recent Advances 

 in Our Knowledge of the Oceans." 



C. H. Danforth, Stanford University. "The Sex Hormones." 



Richard Goldschmidt, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. "Ge- 

 netics." 



