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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LVI, No. 1457 



The increase in membership 

 since September 30, 1920, is summarized m the 

 following tabulation : 



Sept. 30, Sept. 30, Sept. 30, 

 1920 1921 1922 



Number of members 



in good standing.. 10,002 10,160 10,566 



Total enrollment 11,442 11,547 11,646 



Changes in membership occurring in the 

 fiscal year 1922 are shown below: 



Sept. 30, Sept. 30, 



1921 1922 



Total enrollment 11,547 11,646 



Number of sustaining members 3 3 



Number of life members 346 352 



Number of annual members, 



paid up 9,811 10,211 



Total in good standing 10,160 10,566 



Number of members in ar- 

 rears for two years 705 455 



Number of members in ar- 

 rears for one year 682 625 



Total enrollment 11,547 11,646 



Grain in membership, October 1, 1921, 

 to September 30, 1922 : 



Eeinstatements 33 



New members (11 life, 1,209 an- 

 nual) 1,220 



Total gain .■ 1,253 



Loss in membership, October 1, 1921, 

 to September 30, 1922: 

 Dropped because of non-payment of 



dues 705 



Eesigned 362 



Died 87 



Total loss 1,154 



Net gain, October 1, 1921, to September 30, 

 1922 94 



Transfers from annual to life membership.... 4 



Special attention may be directed to the 

 marked increase in paid-up membership for 

 tihe last two years, owing to the very efficient 

 work of the executive assistant and his staff. 

 Paid-up membership for the three years 1920, 

 1921 and 1922 was 10,002, 10,160 and 10,566. 

 The rate of increase in paid-up membership 

 from 1920 to 1921 was about 50.5 per cent. 



higher than was the corresponding rate of 

 increase in total membership. From 1921 to 



1922 the rate of increase in paid-up member- 

 ship was about four times as great as was the 

 corresponding total membei-ship rate of in- 

 crease. It seems that membership in good 

 standing is a much 'better index of our growth 

 than is total membership, and this feature is 

 very gratifying. 



Financial Affairs. The permanent secre- 

 tary's annual financial report for the fiscal 

 year 1922 wUl be published in Science after 

 the annual meeting, at which time a statement 

 regarding the permanent secretary's budget for 



1923 will be made. 



Burton .E. Livingston, 

 Permanent Secretary 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CON- 

 VOCATION WEEKi 



The committee on convocation week ap- 

 pointed by the council of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science at the 

 Toronto meeting, and consisting of J. McKeen 

 Cattell, Chairmam, Herlbert S. Jennings, J. 

 Playfair MeMurrich, Eliakim Hastings Moore 

 and Edwin Bidwell Wilson, begs to report as 

 follows : 



Twenty years ago the first convocation week 

 meeting of our national soientific societies was 

 held in Washington, from December 29, 1902, 

 to January 3, 1903. Prior to that time the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science with the societies affiliated with it had 



1 This report has been presented to the executive 

 committee and approved. It is printed in ad- 

 vance of the Boston meeting in order that con- 

 sideration may be given to the recommendations 

 that are mad» prior to tlieir presentation to the 

 council. 



