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Dr. Burton E. Livingston, Permanent Secretary, witli the following extracts 

 from the Minutes of his Council, and remarks : — 



Professor Herbert Hall Turner, Savilian professor of astronomy in Oxford 

 University, was introduced to the Council as the official representative of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science at this meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion. He had been invited to attend the council sessions and to take part in the 

 discussions. He presented a letter of greeting from the British Association, which 

 the secretary read to the Council. The letter follows : ' The Council of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science through its representative, Professor 

 Herbert Hall Turner, F.R.S. (lately a General Secretary of the Association) desires to 

 convey to the American Association for the Advancement of Science an expression of 

 its cordial good will and every hope for a most successful meeting.' — W. H. Bragg, 

 President. The Chairman expressed to Professor Turner the pleasure of the Council 

 in having him in attendance at this meeting, saying that the American Association 

 was very greatly honoured by having as special delegate from its sister associstion a 

 research worker of Professor Turner's eminence and a past general secretary of the 

 British Association. Professor Turner responded by expressing his gratification at 

 being the official representative of the British Association on this occasion, and added 

 an interesting and valuable account of some features of the manner in which prepara- 

 tions are made for British Association meetings. He emphasized the excellent results 

 obtained by bringing the section secretaries together early in the year for a day or 

 two devoted to discussions of plans for the approaching meeting. Professor Turner 

 emphasized the fact that these preliminary conferences of section secretaries had 

 resulted in specially valuable joint sessions of two or more sections, in which science 

 workers in different but related fields are brought together. 



Professor Turner suggested that it miglit be desirable to have arrangements b\- 

 which some funds might be used to encourage young workers in science to attend the 

 Association meetings, thus bringing them into early contact with the older members. 

 He described briefly how this is accomplished in some instances by the British Associa- 

 tion. A brief discussion followed, and attention was called to the fact that some of 

 the special scientific societies in America have junior or associate membership by which 

 students may have the benefit of the meetings without paying the whole of the regular 

 dues. This whole question was referred to the Executive Committee with the request 

 that it consider the possibilities and report to the Council at a later session. 



Professor Turner . . . presented a message from Mr. 0. J. R. Howarth, Secre- 

 tary of the British Association, calling attention to the exceedingly high prices 

 charged by some European publishers of scientific periodicals, and suggesting 

 that the American Association take this under consideration. After considerable 

 discussion, this was referred to the Executive Committee. 



The Council expressed to the British Association for the Advancement of Science 

 its hearty appreciation of the courtesy of tJiat Association in sending to the New York 

 meeting a special official representative . . . and thanked Professor Turner for taking 

 part in its deliberations and for delivering an address at one of the general sessions of 

 this meeting. 



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Professor Turner gave a lecture on ' The Scientific Retrospect,' which ^ras very 

 well received, at one of our afternoon general sessions. He also introduced Dr. Harlow 

 Shapley, who gave a popular lecture, on ' Galaxies outside of the Milky Way,' at the 

 last evening session of the meeting. 



I am sure that Professor Turner's visit was very productive and stimulating in 

 many ways. 



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Another matter that I wish to brmg to your attention is indicated by the following 

 minute from one of the Council sessions. 



' On recommendation by the Executive Committee the Council requested the 

 Permanent Secretary to communicate with the British Association with regard to the 

 desirability of forming a joint committee to consider the interrelations of these two 

 organisations and their relations with other scientific associations. The Council 

 named the President and the Permanent Secretary to represent the American Associa- 

 tion in the proposed Committee.' 



