The Alpine, Texas, Meeting i99 



General Sessions 



E. F. Carpenter, University of Arizona. "The Revolt Against Thought." 

 (Address of retiring president of Southwestern Division.) 



A. H. Compton, University of Chicago. "Physics Views the Future." 

 (Tenth John Wesley Powell lecture.) 



Dedication of the McDonald Observatory, Mt. Locke: "Tender of Com- 

 pleted Observatory," P. E. Bliss, Warner & Swasey Company; "Accept- 

 ance of Completed Observatory," Otto Struve, the Yerkes Observatory; 

 "The Cooperative Enterprise," Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of 

 The University of Chicago; "Acceptance for the University of Texas," 

 member of Board of Regents; "Some Features of the New Mirror," J. S. 

 Plaskett, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Ottawa, Canada; 'The 

 First of the Sciences," Arthur H. Compton, The University of Chicago; 

 and "Dedication of the Observatory," J. W. Calhoun, president of the Uni- 

 versity of Texas. 



Section Programs 



Biological Sciences Section (15 papers). W. H. Bell, chairman. 



Mathematics Section (13 papers). R. S. Underwood, chairman. Pro- 

 gram of the Section included a symposium on "Topology" (2 papers). 



Physical Science Section (23 papers). E. J. Workman, chairman. 



Social Science Section (27 papers). Victor J. Smith, chairman. Pro- 

 gram of the Section included a symposium on "Methods of Cultural Classi- 

 fication and Description: Conference on Texas Archaeological Methods" 

 (10 papers). 



Program in Connection with the Dedication of the McDonald Observa- 

 tory (27 addresses and papers). The program included a symposium on 

 "Galactic Structure" (2 papers) and a symposium on "Galactic and Ex- 

 tragalactic Structure" (2 papers). 



Texas Junior Academy of Sciences presented a program of 9 reports of 

 projects and activities. 



Preliminary Announcement and Report of Meeting 



Preliminary Report of the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Division. 

 Veon C. Kiech. Science 89:73. 1939. 



Secretary's general report of the Alpine, Texas, meeting of the South- 

 western Division. Veon C. Kiech. Science 90 : 38. 1939. 



