November, 1928 



EVOLUTION 



Page Thirteen 



THE COMING CONVENTION 



From the November 30th issue of 

 Science ^ve glean the following informa- 

 tion about the coming convention of the 

 American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and Associated Societies. 

 It will be held in New York from De- 

 cember 27th to January 2nd inclusive, and 

 "promises to surpass all earlier meetings 

 in scope, in attendance and in importance 

 to American science." The organization 

 has over 17,000 members and invites not 

 only professional scientists but all who are 

 interested in the advancement of science 

 to join. Entrance fee is $5.00; annual 

 dues, also $5.00, include subscription for 

 Science. This may be paid at the time of 

 registering for the convention. Attendance 

 however is not limited to members; all in- 

 terested are invited, but every one must 

 first secure a certificate from the registrar. 

 Members pay a registration fee of $1. for 

 the convention, non-members $2. The main 

 registration office is in University Hall, 

 Columbia University. Branches at the 

 American Museum of Natural History, 

 Metropolitan Museum, American Geo- 

 graphical Society Bldg. and the Engineer- 

 ing Building (29 W. 39th), all open from 

 9 to 6 daily. 



The convention is really a large group 

 of conventions held simultaneously, as all 

 forty-seven associated societies w"ill con- 

 vene during this week. The plan in gen- 

 eral is for the subsidiary sections and 

 societies to hold their sessions in the fore- 

 noons and afternoons, in various Hotels 

 and Meeting Halls, while each evening 

 there is a General Session and Reception 

 in the large Auditorium of the American 

 Museum of Natural History. Space for- 

 bids itemizing the tremendous program 

 arranged for all these meetings but the 

 program for the General Sessions is to be 

 as follows: 



Thurs. Dec. 27, Dr. Charles P. Berkey, 

 Columbia University, "Recent Discoveries 

 in the Geology of Mongolia." 



Fri. Dec. 28, Arthur H. Compton, Univ- 

 ersity of Chicago, "What Is Light?" 



Sat. Dec. 29, Wm. Morton Wheeler, 

 Harvard University, ''New Tendencies in 

 Biologic Theory." 



Mon. Dec. 31, Arthur A. Noyes, Calif. 

 Inst, of Technology, "The Story of the 

 Elements." 



Tues. Jan. 1, Harlow Shapley, Harvard 

 University, "The Gallaxies of Gallaxies — 

 New Developments in the Study of Super- 

 organizations of the Milky Way." 



Sunday afternoon, Dec. 30th, there will 

 be a concert by New York Philharmonic 

 Society in Carnegie Hall, and in the even- 

 ing a reception at the Metropolitan Mu- 

 seum. 



Numerous other General Sessions are 

 also being arranged. The full program 

 makes up a book of over 300 pages and 

 will be mailed to non-members for seven- 

 ty-five cents by the Secretary's office, 

 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 

 A list of the Sections into which the 

 organization is divided, and in which the 



affiliated societies are grouped, gives a 

 slight idea of the scope of the work: A. 

 Mathematics; B. Physics; C. Chemistry; 

 D. Astronomy; E. Geology and Geogra- 

 phy; F. Zoological Sciences; G. Botanical 

 Sciences; H. Anthropology; I. Psycholog>-; 

 K. Social and Economic Sciences; L. Hist- 

 orical and Philological Sciences; M. En- 

 gineering; N. Medical Sciences; O. Agri- 

 culture; Q. Education; Miscellaneous. 



Proposals for the consideration of the 

 convention should be sent to the Secretary's 

 Washington office before Dec. 20th, or 

 handed in personally at the main registra- 

 tion office in University Hall as early in 

 the meeting as possible. They should be 

 ■'in finished and carefully worded form," 

 and are then first referred to the Executive 

 Committee, which meets in the Lincoln 

 Hotel each morning at ten o'clock. The 

 Council of the Association holds its first 

 session in the Library of the Lincoln Hotel 

 Thursday Dec. 27 at 2 P. M. Election 

 of officers occurs Saturday morning. 



During the time of the convention there 

 will also be a SCIENCE EXHIBITION 

 in University Hall at Columbia. The 

 greatest and most comprehensive display 

 yet held is promised of scientific apparatus, 

 materials, methods and books, as well as 

 a large number of non-commercial scien- 

 tific and research exhibits. This exhibition 

 also "becomes a sort of social center, a 

 place where friends and acquaintances 

 may meet and exchange ideas." 



To any one interested in science, which 

 of course includes every reader of EVO- 

 LUTION, this convention will certainly 

 be worth a trip across the continent. 

 Tickets may be purchased at nearly all 

 points from Dec. 16 to 26, depending on 

 distance from New York, entitling the 

 holder to half fare on the return trip 

 provided a "Standard Certificate Form" 

 reading for the New York meeting of the 

 "American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and Associated Societies" 

 is secured at time of purchase. We hope 

 that many readers of EVOLUTION will 

 take advantage of this opportunity to visit 

 New York, and that even during this week 

 replete with science programs they will 

 remember that tht latch string is also 

 hanging out at our EVOLUTION office. 



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IN THE JUNGLES OF TENNESSEE 



O. poor old Tennessee, 



The original "monkey" state; 



It looks like irony. 



Like the very hand of fate. 



That she. of all the ivorld. 

 Should be the first to hail 



Tlie birth of a baby girl — 



With a seven inch simian tail! 



Let's all chip in and offer a hundred 

 dollar prize for the longest tail ''growed" 

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 nessee by at least two inches. 



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