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next quadrennial convocation meeting will occur in 

 Washington, D.C., for 1924-25. 



Dr. Burton E. Livingston, director of the labora- 

 tory of plant physiology of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, who has been permanent secretary of the 

 Association since last February, was re-elected per- 

 manent secretary for a period of four years. Dr. 

 R. S. Woodward was re-elected treasurer of the Asso- 

 ciation, also for a four-year period. 



The following vice-presidents and secretaries were 

 elected for the respective Sections of the Association : 



President: Eliakim H. Moore, Universitv of 

 Chicago, Chicago, 111. (one year). Retiring President : 

 L. O. Howard, Bureau of Entomology, United States 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C, Per- 

 inanent Secretary : Burton E. Livingston, Johns 

 Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. (four years). 

 General Secretary: D. T. MacDougal, Desert Labora- 

 tory, Tucson, Ariz, (four years). Treasurer : R. S. 

 Woodward, Washington, D.C. (four years). 



Chairmen and Secretaries of Sections {Chairmen to 



hold Office for One Year, Secretaries for Four 



Years). 



Section A, Mathematics : — Chairman : Oswald 

 Veblen, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. Secre- 

 tary : William H. Roever, Washington University, 

 St. Louis, Mo. 



Section B, Physics: — Chairman: G. W. Stewart, 

 State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Secre- 

 tary : S. R. Williams, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. 



Section C, Chemistry: — Chairman: W. D. Harkins, 

 University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. Secretary : 

 Gerald L. Wendt, University of Chicago, Chicago, 



Section D, Astronomy : — Chairman : S. A. Mitchell, 

 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. Secre- 

 tary : F. R. Moulton, University of Chicago, Chicago, 



Section E, Geology and Geography: — Chairman: 

 Willet G. Miller, Bureau of Mines, Toronto, Canada. 

 Secretary : Elwood S. Moore, Pennsylvania State 

 College, State College, Pa. 



Section F, Zoology :— Chairman : C. A. Kofoid, 

 University of California, Berkeley, California. Secre- 

 tary : H. W. Rand, Harvard University, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Section G, Botany : — Chairman: Mel. T. Cook, 

 New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New 

 Brunswick, N.J. Secretary: Robert B. Wylie, Iowa 

 State University, Iowa City, Iowa. 



Section H, Anthropology: — Chairman: A. E. Jenks, 

 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. Secre- 

 tary r E. A. Hooton, Peabody Museum, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Section I, Psychologv : — Chairman: E. A. Bott, 

 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Secretary : 

 Frank N. Freeman, Universitv of Chicago, Chicago, 

 111. ■ 



Section K, Social and Economic Sciences : — Chair- 

 man: No election. Secretary : Sevmour C. Loomis, 

 82 Church Street, New Haven, Conn. 



Section O, Agriculture : — Chairman : Jacob G. 

 Lipman, New Jersev Agricultural Exoeriment Station, 

 New Brunswick, N.J. Secretary: Percy E. Brown, 

 Iowa State College. Ames, Iowa. 



Section Q, Education : — Chairman: Guy M. 

 Whipple, Universitv of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 

 Secretary : Bird T. Baldwin, Iowa Child Welfare 

 Research Station, State University of Iowa, Iowa 

 Citv, Iowa. 



There were no elections in Sections L, M, N, 

 and P. 



The eight elected members of the council of the 

 Association for 192 1 are as follows, their terms of 

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office to expire at the end of the annual meeting 

 (denoted in parentheses) : — N. L. Britton (1921-22), 

 New York Botanical Garden; J. McK. Cattell (1921- 

 22), Garrison, N.Y. ; Henry C. Cowles (1921-22), 

 University of Chicago; J. " C. Merriam (1921-22), 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington; G. A. Miller 

 (1922-23), University of Illinois; W. E. Ritter 

 (1922-23), Scripps Institution, La Jolla, California; 

 A. E. Douglass (1923-24), University of Arizona; 

 and Henry B. Ward (1923-24), University of Illinois. 



The Council also includes the president, the per- 

 manent and the general secretary, the vice-presidents 

 for the Sections, the secretaries of the Sections, and 

 the representatives of the affiliated societies. 



The executive committee of the council for 192 1 

 consists of the following members, their terms of 

 office- to expire at the end of the annual meeting 

 (denoted in parentheses) : — J. McK. Cattell (1922-23), 

 H. L. Fairchild (1923-24), Simon Flexner (1921-22), 

 L. O. Howard (1924-25), W. J. Humphreys (1921-22), 

 Burton E. Livingston (1924-25), D. T. MacDougal 

 (1924-25), E. H. Moore (1921-22), Arthur A. Noyes 

 (1923-24), Herbert Osborn (1924-25), and Henry B. 

 Ward" (1922-23). 



The collection of portraits and autograph letters of 

 all the presidents of the American Association made 

 by Dr. Marcus Benjamin, of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, has been purchased by the Association under 

 conditions representing a partial gift from Dr. 

 Benjamin. 



The sum of 5000 dollars was appropriated for the 

 Committee on Grants for Research, to be distributed 

 during 192 1. 



A resolution was adopted by the council as 

 follows : — 



" Be it Resolved : That the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science would welcome the 

 organisation of Mexican men of science and their 

 affiliation with this Association. Resolved : That a 

 committee of seven be appointed to co-operate with 

 such organisation as Mexican men of science may 

 form." 



The following were appointed on this committee : — 

 L. O. Howard (chairman), A. E. Douglass, E. L. 

 Hewitt, D. S. Hill, W. J. Humphreys, D. T. Mac- 

 Dougall, and W. Lindgren. 



The following three resolutions were also adopted 

 by the council : — 



"Whereas the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science includes Sections on Physio- 

 logy, Experimental Medicine, and Zoology, and 

 whereas advancement of knowledge in these sciences, 

 which is dependent upon intensive study of living 

 tissue, is inevitablv followed not only by ameliora- 

 tion of human suffering, but also by a lessening of 

 animal disease and by substantial economic gain and 

 by conservation of the food-supply; and whereas this 

 Association is convinced that the rights of animals 

 are adequately safeguarded by existing laws, bv the 

 general character of the institutions which authorise 

 animal experimentation and by the general character 

 of the individuals engaged therein, 



" Therefore he it resolved that this Association 

 agrees fully with the fundamental aim of those whose 

 efforts are devoted to the safeguarding of the rights 

 of animals, but deprecates unwise attempts to limit 

 or prevent the conduct of animal experimentation 

 such as have recently been defeated in California and 

 Oregon, for the reason that such efforts retard ad- 

 vance in methods of prevention, control, and treat- 

 ment of disease and injury of both man and animals, 

 and threaten serious economic loss ; and be it further 



" Resolved that a copy of these resolutions be in- 

 cluded in the official records of this Association, and 

 I that copies be sent to the National Congress, to the 



