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retary; University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 

 American Psychological Association, Edwin G. 

 Boring, secretary; Clark University, Worces- 

 ter, Mass. 

 Seotion K (Social and Economic Sciences), Fred- 

 erick L. Hoffman, secretary, Babson Insti- 

 tute, Wellesley Hills, Mass. 

 American Metric Association, Howard Eichards, 

 secretary; 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, 

 N. Y. 

 Section L (Historical and Philological Sciences), 

 Frederick E. Brasch, secretary; 6963 Morton 

 Place, Eogers Park, Chicago, 111. 

 Section M (Engineering), L. W. Wallace, secre- 

 tary; 719 Fifteenth Street, N. W., Wash- 

 ington, D. 0. 

 Seotion N (Medical Sciences), A. J. Goldfarb, 

 secretary; College of the City of New York, 

 New York, N. Y. 

 Section (Agriculture), P. E. Brown, secretary; 

 Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. 

 American Society of Agronomy, P. E. Brown, 

 secretary; Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. 

 Society of American Foresters, W. N. Spar- 

 hawk, secretary; Forest Service, Washington, 

 D. C. 

 American Society for Horticultural Science, 



C. P. Close, secretary; College Park, Md. 

 Society for Promotion of Agricultural Science, 

 J. G. Lipman, secretary; New Brunswick, 

 N. J. 

 Section Q (Education), A. S. Barr, secretary; 



1924 Hazelwood, Detroit, Mich. 

 Societies not specially related to any particular 

 section: 

 The Society of Sigma Xi, Edward Ellery, sec- 

 retary; Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. 

 Gamma Alpha Graduate Scientific Fraternity, 

 A. H. Wright, secretary; 113 E. Upland 

 Eoad, Ithaca, N. Y. 

 Phi Kappa Phi, L. H. Pammel, secretary; 

 Ames, Iowa. 



Burton E. Livingston, 

 ' Permanent Secretary 



AUTUMN MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE 

 COMMITTEE 



The meeting Avas called to order on October 

 21 at 2 :10, in the office of Science Press, New 

 York City, with the fo'lowing members pres- 

 ent : J. McKeen Cattell, H. L. Fairehiid, W. J. 

 Humphreys, Burton E. Livingston, Herbert 

 Osborn, Henry B. Ward. Dr. Fairehiid was 



elected chairman for the session. The follow- 

 ing are the main items of business transacted: 



1. The minutes of the last meeting of ithe 

 committee having been already approved by 

 mail, the permanent secretary read the minutes 

 of the proceedings by mail and telegraph, in 

 'the interim since the last meeting, which were 

 approved. 



2. The permanent secretary's annual report 

 on the affairs of the association was read and 

 discussed and it was accepted. The principal 

 features of this report are subjoined. 



3. The permanent secretary's financial report 

 was accepted and ordered to be audited. 



4. A letter from the general secretary was 

 read, mentioning that preparations are in 

 progress for a progi-am on the "Origin of 

 Ideas," for the Boston meeting, under the lead- 

 ership of Dr. James Harvey Robinson, and 

 that preparations are well advanced for a joint 

 meeting of Section C (Chemistry) with the 

 Physiological Section of the Botanical Society 

 of America, with a program on "Photosyn- 

 thesis and the Light Relations of Plants." 



5. The treasurer was authorized to exchange 

 the association's holdings in U. S. Victory 4% 

 per cent, notes, which are to be retired, for 

 4% per cent. U. S. Treasury bonds (1947- 

 1952) of equal face values. 



6. The chairman of the Committee on Con- 

 vocation Week (Dr. J. McKeen Cattell) pre- 

 sented an informal report, which was accepted. 

 This report will appear in Science. 



7. Fifty-seven members were elected to fel- 

 lowship in the association, on regular nomina- 

 tions approved by their respective section sec- 

 retaries. The newly elected fellows are dis- 

 tributed among the sections as follows : F, 40 ; 

 I, 15; L, 1; K, 1. (It is highly desirable that 

 all members who are eligible to fellowship in 

 the association should be elected. Nominations 

 are made by any meniber on special nomina- 

 tion blanks secm-ed from the pei-manent secre- 

 tary's office or from any section secretary.) 



8. Certain editorial features of tlie journal 

 Science were discussed. It was voted that the 

 present practice be continued of publishing ia 

 f uU the retiring presidential and vice-presiden- 

 tial addresses given at the annual meeting. 



