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28-30. Secretary, Dr. Edmund Otis Hovey, Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History, New York City. 

 Association of Economic Entomologists. — De- 

 cember 28 and 29. Secretary, A. F. Burgess, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



American Nature-Study Society. — January 1. 

 Secretary, Dr. M. A. Bigelow, Columbia Univer- 

 sity, New York City. 



Association of American Anatom,ists. — December 

 28-30. Secretary, Dr. G. Carl Huber, Ann Arbor, 

 Mich. 



The American Chemical Society. — ^During the 

 entire week. Secretary, Professor Charles L. Par- 

 sons, New Hampshire College, Durham, N. H. 



American Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists. 

 ■ — December 28-30, with the Geological Society of 

 America. Secretary, Mr. E. S. Riggs, Field Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, Chicago, 111. 



Ameriemi Society of Zoologists (Central Branch 

 in joint meeting with, and under the auspices of, 

 tne Eastern Branch). — December 28-30. Eastern 

 Branch — Secretary, Professor Lorande Loss Wood- 

 ruff, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Central 

 Branch — Secretary, Professor Charles Zeleny, Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



The American Physical Society. — Secretary, 

 Professor Ernest Merritt, Itha«a, N. Y. 



The American Psychological Association. — De- 

 cember 29-31. Secretary, Professor A. H. Pierce, 

 Smith College, Northampton, Mass. 



The American Physiological Society. — December 

 28-30. Secretary, Dr. Reid Hunt, U. S. Public 

 Health and Marine Hospital Service, Washington, 

 D. C. 



American Anthropological Association. — Decem- 

 ber 27-31. Secretary, Dr. George Grant Mac- 

 Curdy, New Haven, Conn. 



The Entomological Society of America. — De- 

 cember 30 and 31. Secretary, J. Chester Bradley, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



The American Folh-Lore Society. — Professor R. 

 B. Dixon, Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. 



American Federation of Teachers of the Mathe- 

 matical and the Natural Sciences. — December 27 

 and 28. Secretary, Dr. C. R. Mann, University of 

 Chicago, Chicago, 111. 



American Society of Biological Chemists. — Sec- 

 retary, Dr. William J. Gies, 437 West 59th St., 

 New York City. 



Sullivant Moss Society. — December 30. Secre- 

 tary, Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith, 78 Orange St., 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Botanical Society of America. — December 28- 

 31. Secretary, Dr. Duncan Starr Johnson, Johns 

 Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 



Society of American Bacteriologists. — December 

 28-30. Secretary, Dr. Norman McL. Harris, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 



Association of Mathematical Teachers in New 

 England. — December 28. Secretary, George W. 

 Evans, Charlestown High School, Charlestown, 

 Mass. 



Eastern Association of Physics Teachers. — 

 Meets in conjunction with American Federation 

 of Teachers of the Mathematical and Natural 

 Sciences. 



Physics Teachers of Washington, D. 0. — ^Meets 

 in conjunction with American Federation of 

 Teachers. Secretary, Dr. Howard L. Hodgkins, 

 George Washington University, Washington, D. C. 



American Phytopathological Society. — Secretary, 

 0. L. Shear, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C. 



American Alpine Club. — December 30. Secre- 

 tary, Dr. Henry G. Bryant, Room 806 Land Title 

 Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 



American Breeders' Association. — Meeting of 

 Eugenics Committee. Secretary, Dr. Chas. B. 

 Davenport, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. 



OUR FOOD FROM THE WATERS'- 

 At the last meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation in Canada (Toronto, 1897) I was 

 able to lay before Section D a preliminary 

 account of the results of running sea-water 

 through four silk tow-nets of different de- 

 grees of fineness continuously day and 

 night during the voyage from Liverpool to 

 Quebec. During the eight days' traverse 

 of the North Atlantic, the nets were emp- 

 tied and the contents examined morning 

 and evening, so that each such gathering 

 was approximately a twelve hours' catch, 

 and each day and each night of the voyage 

 was represented by four gatherings. This 

 method of collecting samples of the surface 

 fauna of the sea in any required quantity 

 per day or hour from an ocean liner going 

 at full speed was suggested to me by Sir 

 John Murray of the Challenger expedition, 

 and was first practised, I believe, by Mur- 

 ray himself in crossing the Atlantic. I 

 ^ Abstract of evening discourse, delivered before 

 the British Association at Winnipeg on August 

 31, 1909. 



