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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LVI, No. 1457 



Deeember 26, in Walker Memorial Hall at the 

 Massachusetts Institute. At this session the 

 retiring president of the association, Professor 

 E. H. Moore, of the University of Chic-ago, 

 ■win deliver an address on "What is a Number 

 System?" The president of the association, 

 Dr. J. Playfair McMurrioh, of the University 

 of Toronto, will preside. 



The second general session -will ibe held on 

 the evening of Wednesday, December 27, in 

 Walker MemoriaJl Hall. This session is to Ibe 

 under the joint auspices of the Society of 

 Sigma Xi and the A. A. A. S. The address of 

 the evening will be the Sigma Xi address, this 

 year toy President Livingston Farrand, of Cor- 

 nell University, on "The Nation and its 

 Health." 



A general session will ibe held on Friday 

 afternoon, December 29, in Huntington Hall, 

 Rogers Building, on the o^ld institute site, 

 Boylston Street, Boston. On this occasion the 

 William Thompson Sedgwick Memorial Lec- 

 ture, under the auspices of the Massachusetts 

 Institute, will be given by Professor Edmund 

 B. Wilson, of Columbia University, on "The 

 Physical Basis of Life." 



The following list shows the societies, and 

 the names of their secretaries, that have thus 

 far informed the permanent seci-etary's office 

 ■that they are planning to meet with the asso- 

 ciation at Boston: 



Section A (Mathematies), William H. Eoever, 

 secretary; Washington University, St. Louis, 

 Mo. 

 American Mathematical Society, E. G. D. Eich- 

 ardson, secretary; Brown University, Provi- 

 dence, E. I. 

 Mathematical Association of America, W. D. 

 Cairns, secretary; Oberlin College, Oberlin, 

 Ohio. 

 Section B (Physics), S. E. Williams, secretary; 

 Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. (Otto Kop- 

 pius, of Oberlin College, will act as secretary 

 for the Boston meeting, in Dr. Williams ' ab- 

 sence in California). 

 American Physical Society, Dayton C. Miller, 

 secretary; Case School of Applied Science, 

 Clevelajid, Ohio. 

 American Meteorological Society, Charles F. 

 Brooks, secretary; Clark University, Worces- 

 ter, Mass. 



Section C (Chemistry), W. D. Harkins, acting 

 seerertary for the Boston meeting; Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 

 Section D (Astronomy), P. E. Moulton, secre- 

 tary; University of Chioago, Chicago, 111. 



American Asttronomical Society, Joel Stebbins, 

 secretary; Washburn Observatory, Madison, 

 Wis. ' 

 Section E (Geology and Geography), E. S. Moore, 

 secretary; University of Toronto, Toronto, 

 Canada. 

 Section F (Zoologieal Sciences), H. W. Band, 

 secretary; Harvard University, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



American Society of Zoologists, W. C. AUee, 

 secretary; University of Chicago, Chicago, 

 111. 



Entomological Society of America, C. L. Met- 

 oalf, secretary; University of Illinois, Ur- 

 bana. 111. 



American Association of Economic Entomolo- 

 gists, Albert F. Burgess, secretary; Melrose 

 Highlands, Mass. 

 Section G (Botany), Eobert B. Wylie, secretary; 

 State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. 



Botanical Society of America, I. P. Lewis, sec- 

 retary; University of Virginia, University, 

 Va. 



American Phytopathological Society, G. E. 

 Lyman, secretary; Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 Washington, D. C. 



American Fern Society, Stewart H. Burnham, 

 secretary; College of Agriculture, Ithaca, 

 N. Y. 



SulUvant Moss Society, Edward B. Chamber- 

 lain, secretary; 18 West Eighty-ninth Street, 

 New York, N. Y. 

 Section F, G (Zoology and Botany). 



American Society of NaturaJistts, A. Franklin 

 ShuU, secretary; University of Michigan, 

 Ann Arbor, Mich. 



Ecological Society of America, A. O. Weese, 

 secretary; 1321 W. Wood Street, Decatur, lU. 



American Microscopical Society, Paul S. Welch, 

 secretary; University of Michigan, Ann 

 Arbor, Mich. 

 American Nature-Study Society, Anna Botsford 

 Comstock, secretary; 123 Roberts Place, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 

 Section H (Anthropology), E. A. Hooton, secre- 

 tary; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass. 



American Anthropological Association, A. V. 

 Kidder, secretary;- 215 Main Street, Andover, 

 Mass. 

 Section I (Psychology), Frank N. Freeman, sec- 



