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these societies must ue broken up into 

 sections; but the most efficient form of 

 organization has still to be worked out. 

 A general meeting of the scientific men 

 of the country appears to be essential; 

 but it is possible that this can only 

 take place once in three years, the meet- 

 ings being more local in the intervening 

 years. There should, however, be one 

 central place of meeting each year, 

 where the societies of the whole coun- 

 try can be represented by delegates, 

 should a plebiscite be impossible. It 

 has been agreed that for the present 



U. S. Commissioner of Labor and presi- 

 dent of Clark College, presides over the 

 association, and Dr. Ira Remsen, presi- 

 dent of the Johns Hopkins University, 

 gives the address of the retiring presi- 

 dent. Professor William Trelease, 

 director of the Missouri Botanical 

 Gardens, gives the presidential ad- 

 dress before the Society of Naturalists, 

 and the public lecture is to be delivered 

 by President David Starr Jordan of 

 Stanford University. It would require 

 many pages to give details of the 

 programs; they will be found in part 



Central High School, in which the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science and Affiliated Societies will meet during Convocation Week. 



this general meeting should be in the 

 eastern states twice and in the central 

 or western states once in three years. 



The general meeting is this year at 

 St. Louis, and it will doubtless rival in 

 interest and importance the Washing- 

 ton meeting. Counting the sections of 

 the American Association, there will 

 be at least thirty scientific organiza- 

 tions in session, and the officers alone 

 make a representative body of scien- 

 tific men. The Hon. Carroll D. Wriglit, 



in recent numbers of Science and in the 

 local program issued by the association. 

 The latter can be obtained from the 

 permanent secretary. Dr. L. 0. Howard, 

 Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C, to 

 whom also applications for membership 

 should be addressed. All scientific 

 workers in the central states and also 

 those interested in science not now 

 members should make the St. Louis 

 meeting the occasion of acquiring mem- 

 bership. 



