296 The American Society of Natur alists [Jan. 



IL THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS: 

 THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING 



Bradley M. Davis, Secretary 



The thirty-first annual meeting of the American Society of 

 Natiiralists was held in the Zoological Laboratory of the University 

 of Pennsylvania on December 31, 1913. In affiHation with the So- 

 ciety this year were the American Society of Zoologists, the Ameri- 

 can Association of Anatomists, and the Federation of American 

 Societies for Experimental Biology. The titles of papers of par- 

 ticular biochemical interest f ollow : 



L. /. Henderson: The functions of an environment. — Jacques 

 Loeb: On the adaptation of Fundulns to abnormal salt Solutions. — D. 

 T. MacDougal: Divergent characters of the progeny arising from 

 seed maturing in treated ovaries of Scrophularia occidentalis. 



The Session of the afternoon consisted of a Symposium on the 

 subject : " The scope of biological teaching in relation to new fields 

 of discovery." Papers were presented by M. F. Guyer, zoology; 

 M. A. Chrysler, botany; R, R. Bensley, anatomy and medicine; G. 

 H. Parker, general physiology. 



The Naturalists' dinner was held on the evening of December 

 31, at the Hotel Walton, with one hundred and ten in attendance. 

 The president's address by Prof. Ross G. Harrison was entitled 

 " Science and practice." 



Executive proceedings. Constitution and by-laws. A re- 

 vised Constitution and by-laws were adopted with several important 

 modifications of the old Constitution. The former division of the 

 Society into an Eastern Brauch and a Central Brauch was abolished. 

 " Sections of the Society may be organized in any locality, with the 

 approval of the Society in each case, by ten or more members, for 

 the purposes of holding meetings for the presentation of scientific 

 papers. Such sections shall have the right to elect their own officers 

 and associate members, but associate membership in any section 

 shall not confer membership in the Society." 



New members: 7, W. Bailey, Harvard Univ.; A. M. Banta, 

 Carnegie Station for Exp. Evol'n; H. H. Bartlett, Bur. of Plant 

 Industry, U. S. Dep't of Agric. ; C. T. Breies, Harvard Univ. ; P. P. 

 Calvert, Univ. of Penn.; M. A. Chrysler, Univ. of Me. ; R. A. 



