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lowing recommendations, which were adopted: 



1. That the vote of the Toronto conference in 

 favor of the idea of federation be reaffirmed. 



2. That the proposed federation be styled the 

 Federation of American Biological Societies. 



3. That the members of the federation be socie- 

 ties, not individuals, and that all societies repre- 

 sented in this conference (a list of which is given 

 below) be eligible to charter membership. 



4. That a council of the federation be estab- 

 lished, consisting of two representatives from 

 each society, these to be the president and secre- 

 tary unless otherwise designated by the society. 



5. That the council choose an executive com- 

 mittee from its own membership. 



The committee that made the foregoing re- 

 port was continued as an executive committee 

 pro tempore of the conference, and to it was 

 intrusted the task of drawing up a constitution 

 and by-laws in accordance with the above gen- 

 eral plan. The instructions of this committee 

 call for completion of its work at a reasonably 

 early date, and the transmission of its decisions 

 and recommendations to the officers of the sev- 

 eral societies by correspondence. It is expected 

 that it will be possible to distribute the pro- 

 posed constitution and by-laws to the members 

 of the societies early next fall. 



The executive committee pro tern, has the fol- 

 lowing personnel : Frank R. Lillie, University 

 of Chicago; C. W. Greene, University of Mis- 

 souri; I. F. Lewis, University of Virginia; 

 C. E. McClung, University of Pennsylvania; 

 A. Franklin Shull, University of Michigan; 

 R. E. Thatcher, Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Geneva; H. B. "Ward, University of Illi- 

 nois; and B. E. Livingston, representing the 

 American Association (Herbert Osborn to sub- 

 stitute for latter at August 4 meeting). 



Considerable discussion was devoted to the 

 problem of improving biological publications, 

 a question likely to come before the council, if 

 the plan of federation shall be adopted. This 

 problem was considered so important that it 

 was deemed advisable by the conference that 

 some action be taken withoui waiting for the 

 estabKshment of the federation. A special 

 committee was, therefore, appointed to work 

 in cooperation with a committee on the same 

 subject from the Division of Biology and Agri- 

 culture of the National Research Council, to 

 study the whole question of biological publica- 



tions and report to the conference or to the 

 federation if formed. The personnel of this 

 committee is as follows : 



A. P. Hitchens, Army Medical School. 



I. F. Lewis, University of Virginia. 



C. A. Kofoid, University of California. 



D. R. Hooker, Johns Hopkins University. 



The corresponding committee of the Division 

 of Biology and Agriculture of the National 

 Research Council is composed of the following 

 members : 



E. D. Ball, Department of Agriculture. 



C. E. McClung, University of Pennsylvania. 



J. R. Schramm, National Research Council. 



A. F. Woods, University of Maryland. 



The biological organizations represented at 

 the Washington conference were as follows : 



American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. 



Sections F (Zoology), G (Botany), N (Medical 

 Sciences), and O (Agriculture) of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. 



Federation of American Societies for Experi- 

 mental Biology. 



Tlie Executive Committee of the Division of 

 Biology and Agriculture of the National Re- 

 search Councih 



American Society of Naturalists. 



American Society of Zoologists. 



Botanical Society of America. 



Genetics Sections of the Botanical Society of 

 America and the American Society of Zoologists. 



American Genetic Association. 



Ecological Society of America. 



American Phytopathological Society. 



American Society for Horticultural Science. 



Society of American Foresters. 



Society of American Bacteriologists. 



American Society of Agronomy. 



Entomological Society of Amerdca. 



American Association of Economic Entomolo- 

 gists. 



American Society of Animal Production. 



American Dairy Science Association. 



A. Franklin Shull, 

 Secretary of the Conference 



HUIA ONSLOW 



At Cambridge, England, on June 27, Mr. 

 Huia Onslow died. He was born in New Zea- 

 land on November 13, 1890, where Ms father, 

 the Earl of Onslow, was then governor-general. 

 To commemorate the place of his birth, he was 



