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Resolved, That the Council of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science authorizes the establishment of local branches of the 

 association in places where the members are prepared to conduct branches 

 which will forward the objects of the association. 



Resolved, That the standing committee on organization and membership 

 be instructed to promote the establishment of such local branches. 



The president elected for the coming year was Dr. Charles 

 Wm. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard University. 



The next meeting will be held in Philadelphia during convo- 

 cation week, 1914-1915. 



W. C. COKEE. 



THE ZOOLOGISTS AND NATURALISTS 



The American Society of Zoologists and the American Society 

 of iSTaturalists met with various other biological societies in 

 Philadelphia, December 29 to January 1. The Zoologists and 

 jSTaturalists held their meeting in the new zoological laboratory 

 of the University of Pennsylvania, a large and handsome build- 

 ing. It may be noted in passing how many universities have 

 recently erected, or are about to erect, elaborate zoological labo- 

 ratories costing from about $150,000 to $500,000. Princeton, 

 Pennsylvania, Yale, in the East, and the state universities of 

 Ohio, Missouri, and Minnesota, in the West, are in this class. 



Important changes in the constitution of the Society of Zoolo- 

 gists, long considered, were fortunately carried through, result- 

 ing in the union of eastern and central (middle west) branches 

 of the society. The opportunity still remains for the formation 

 of local sections, wherever ten or more members of the general 

 society can foregather. 



The papers read before the Zoologists showed the usual di- 

 versity, falling under the heads of comparative anatomy, em- 

 bryology, cytology, genetics, comparative physiology, ecology. 

 Still other papers were grouped together as " miscellaneous." 

 There were some exhibits, among which may be mentioned 

 photographs of changes in color and pattern undergone by floun- 

 ders (by Dr. S. O. Mast, of Johns Hopkins, reporting on an 

 investigation carried out at the Beaufort Laboratory) and speci- 

 mens of several generations of butterflies exhibiting Mendelian 

 inheritance (by Dr. J. H. Gerould, of Dartmouth). Among the 



