December 10, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



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meetings which so much disturbed the equan- 

 imity of zoologists at Baltimore last year will 

 be entirely avoided. 



il. A. BiGELOW, 



Secretary of Section F 



THE CONVOCATIOy MEEK MEET IS CH OF 

 SCI EST IF IC SOCIETIES 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and the national scientific 

 societies named below will meet at Boston, 

 Mass., during convocation week, beginning on 

 December 27, 1909. 



American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. — Retiring president. Professor T. C. 

 Charaberlin, University of Chicago; president. Dr. 

 David Starr Jordan, of Stanford University; perm- 

 anent secretary, Dr. L. 0. Howard, Cosmos Club, 

 Washington, D. C; general secretary. Professor 

 Dayton C. Miller, Case School of Applied Science, 

 Cleveland, Ohio. 



Local Executive Committee. — H. W. Tyler, 

 chairman; Thomas Barbour, .J. S. Kingsley, Ed- 

 ward R. Warren, .John Warren, George W. Swett, 

 secretary. 



Section A, Mathematics and Astronomy. — Vice- 

 president, Professor Ernest W. Brown, Yale Uni- 

 versity; secretary, Professor G. A. Miller, Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. 



Section B, Physics. — Vice-president, Dr. Louis 

 A. Bauer, Carnegie Institution, Washington, D. 

 C; secretary, Professor A. D. Cole, Vassar Col- 

 lege, Poughkcepsie, X. Y. 



Section C, Chemistry. — Vice-president, Pro- 

 fessor William McPherson, Ohio State University; 

 secretary, C. H. Herty, University of Xorth Caro- 

 lina, Chapel Hill, N. C. 



Section D, Mechanical Science and Engineering. 

 — Vice-president, Professor John F. Hayford, 

 Northwestern University; secretary, G. W. Bis- 

 sell, Michigan Agricultural College, East Lansing, 

 Mich. 



Section E, Geology and Geography. — Vice-presi- 

 dent, Reginald W. Brook, Canadian Geological 

 Survey; secretary, F. P. Gulliver, Norwich, Conn. 



Section F, Zoology. — Vice-president, Professor 

 William E. Ritter, La Jolla, Cal.; secretarj', Pro- 

 fessor Morris A. Bigelow, Columbia University, 

 New York City. 



Section G, Botany. — Vice-president, Professor 

 David Penhallow, McGill University; secretary. 

 Professor H. C. Cowles, University of Chicago, 

 Chicago, 111. 



•Section U, Anthropology. — Vice-president, Dr. 

 W. H. Holmes, Bureau of American Ethnology; 

 secretarj'. Dr. George Grant MacCurdy, Yale Uni- 

 versity, New Haven, Conn. 



Section I, Social and Economic Science. — Vice- 

 president, Byron W. Holt, 54 Broad St., New 

 York City; secretary. Dr. John Franklin Crowell, 

 44 Broad St., New York City. 



Section K, Physiology and Experimental Medi- 

 cine. — Vice-president, Professor C. S. Minot, Har- 

 vard Medical School; secretary, Dr. Wm. J. Gies, 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia 

 University, New York City. 



Section L, Education. — Vice-president, Dean 

 James E. Russell, Columbia University; secre- 

 tary, Professor C. R. Mann, University of Chi- 

 cago, Chicago, 111. 



The American Society of Naturalists. — Decem- 

 ber 29. President, Professor T. H. Morgan, Co- 

 lumbia University; secretary. Dr. H. McE. 

 Knowcr, University of Toronto, Toronto, Can. 

 Central Branch. President, Professor R. A. 

 Harper, University of Wisconsin; secretary. Pro- 

 fessor Thomas G. Lee, University of Minnesota, 

 Minneapolis, Minn. 



The American Mathematical Society. — Decem- 

 ber 28-30. President, Professor Maxime BOcher, 

 Harvard University; secretarj-, Professor F. N. 

 Cole, 501 West 116th St., New York City. 



American Federation of Teachers of the Mathe- 

 matical and Natural Sciences. — December 27, 28. 

 President, Professor H. W. Tyler, Massachusetts 

 Institute of Teehnologj'; secretary, Professor C. 

 R. Mann, University of Chicago, Chicago, III. 



The American Physical Society. — President, 

 Professor Henry Crew, Northwestern University; 

 secretary. Professor Ernest Merritt, Cornell Uni- 

 versity, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The American Chemical Society. — December 

 27-31. President, Dr. Willis R. Whitney, General 

 Electric Company, Scheneetadj-, N. Y. ; secretary, 

 Professor Charles L. Parsons, New Hampshire 

 College, Durham, N. H. 



The Geological Society of America. — December 

 29, 31. President, Dr. G. K. Gilbert, U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey; secretary. Dr. E. 0. Hovey, Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, New York City. 



The Association of American Geographers. — 

 December 30-January 1. President, Professor W. 

 M. Davis, Harvard University; secretary, Pro- 

 fessor Albert P. Brigham, Colgate University, 

 Hamilton, N. Y. 



The American Society of Vertebrate Paleontolo- 

 gists. — December 27-29. President, Dr. J. C. 



