-156 Journal of Applied Microscopy 



University of Micliigan ; F, Zoology, E. L. Mark, Harvard University ; G, 

 Botany, T. H. Macbride. University of Iowa ; H, Anthropology, M. H. Saville, 

 American Museum of Natural History; I, Social and Economic Science, S. E. 

 Baldwin, New Haven ; K, Physiology and Experimental Medicine, H. P. 

 Bowditch, Harvard University. 



Fennanent Secretary — L. O. Howard, Cosmos Club, Washington. 



General Secretary — Chas. W. Stiles. 



Secretary of the Coimcil — Chas. S. Howe, Case School. 



Secretaries of the Sections — Section A, Mathematics and Astronomy, L. G. 

 Weld, University of Iowa ; B, Physics, D C. Miller, Case School ; C, Chemistry, 

 A. H. Gill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; D, Mechanical Science and 

 Engineering (none proposed) ; E, Geology, G. B. Shattuck, Baltimore ; F, Zoology, 

 C. Judson Herrick, Denison University ; G, Botany, F. E. Lloyd, Teachers Col- 

 lege, Columbia University; H, Anthropology, R. B. Dixon, Harvard University; 

 I, Social and Economic Science, J. F. Crowell, Washington ; K, Physiology and 

 Experimental Medicine, F. S. Lee, Columbia University. 



Treasurer — R. S. Woodward, Columbia University, New York. 



The American Association for the Advancement of Science deserves the 

 support of everyone interested in any way in scientific work, and we should be 

 pleased to furnish application blanks and information regarding the Society to 

 any of our readers who desire to become members. 



A business meeting of the American Microscopical Society was held on 

 January 2nd, at the main building of the Columbian University, Washington, D. 

 C, at which the President, Prof. A. E. Birge, University of Wisconsin, presided, 

 the attendance being unusually large, especially as this was only a business ses- 

 sion, no papers being presented, the secretary having previously informed the 

 members that abundant material had been received for the 1903 l^roceedings. 



The principal item of business was a discussion as to whether a summer 

 meeting of the Society should be held or not. After thorough discussion of the 

 subject, it was decided to hold a summer meeting next summer, place and time 

 to be decided by the executive committee. It was suggested in this connection 

 that these summer meetings should be working meetings, and should be held at 

 some place where plenty of material of interest can be had, such, for example, 

 as one of the Seaside Biological laboratories, at which collections could be made 

 during the days of the meetings, and the material distributed among the members 

 to be worked up and described in the Proceedings.; the Mammoth Cave of Ken- 

 tucky, where a survey of the blind fauna of the cave could be made and form the 

 subject of a special report, and many other suitable localities were proposed, and 

 the sense of the meeting was that a plan of this kind would be productive of the 

 greatest amount of good for the summer meeting. This would not interfere in 

 any way with holding a winter meeting at which a program of papers could be 

 arranged if desirable. This question was left open for future consideration. 

 Another question of considerable importance to the future of the Society was also 

 brought forward, and referred to a special committee to be appointed by 

 the President, namely, the adoption of a plan by which an arrangement with 

 some regular publication devoted to microscopy could be made, so that each 

 member of the Society could receive a copy of this publication regularly, and 

 that the Society could publish therein its announcements to members and any 

 other information which might be of general interest to them. It was suggested 

 that the interest of the members in the Society would be greatly increased if 

 there was some such medium of communication whereby various occurrences in 

 connection with the Society's work could be brought to the knowledge of the 

 members oftener than once a year. At the close of the business session the 

 Society adjourned to the chemical lecture room and witnessed a demonstration 

 of the new Bausch & Lomb horizontal projection apparatus for projecting images 

 of objects in fluid, etc. 



