PROCEEDINGS OF THE FORTY- FIFTH 

 ANNUAL MEETING 



The Forty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Society was 

 held at San Francisco, California, on September 1 to 4, 

 1915, in the Auditorium of the Young Women's Chris- 

 tian Association Building on the grounds of the Panama- 

 Pacific International Exposition. 



President Daniel B. Fearing called the meeting to 

 order and introduced Hon. A. L. Cowell, and later Dr. 

 B. W. Evermann and Mr. Ernest Schaeffle, all of whom 

 made brief addresses of welcome. 



ADDRESSES OF WELCOME. 



By A. L. Cowell, 



Assistant Director of Congresses, Panama-Pacific 

 International Exposition. 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: I feel highly honored 

 at being permitted to express, in behalf of the President 

 and Board of Directors of the Exposition and particu- 

 larly the Department of Congresses with which I am 

 directly connected, our extreme gratification at being 

 able to welcome you within the grounds of the Exposi- 

 tion to this, your Forty-fifth Annual Session. I feel 

 especially glad because of the fact that you represent so 

 old an organization and so important a subject. There 

 are comparatively few of the conventions and congresses 

 that are meeting in San Francisco and vicinity this year 

 which have maintained an existence of forty-five con- 

 secutive years. Therefore, we feel that you bring to us 

 a certain amount of dignity and stability, which we 

 greatly appreciate. Of course, the subject in which you 

 are interested is one of extreme importance to all the 

 members of the human race. 



