November 21, 1919] 



SCIENCE 



477 



1. By arrangement with the publishers of Sci- 

 ence this journal publishes the oflficial notices and 

 proceedings of the Association and is sent to all 

 members in good standing, the sum of $2 being 

 paid to the publishers of the journal for each mem- 

 ber. Members may by request receive The Scien- 

 tific Monthly in place of Science. This arrange- 

 ment may be cancelled by the Council of the Asso- 

 ciation or by the publishers of the journal, after 

 one year's notice has been given by either party. 



1. The official year of the Association shall be- 

 gin on October 1, and the dues of members are 

 payable on that date. Only members who have 

 paid their dues shall enjoy the privileges of the 

 meetings and receive publications of the Associa- 

 tion, but those not longer than two years in 

 arrears for dues are retained on the membership 

 list. Members dropped from membership for non- 

 payment of dues may have their names reinstated 

 by payment of arrearages or may be reelected 

 with payment of the entrance fee. In the case of 

 members of affiliated societies elected to member- 

 ship in the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science within one year of their election 

 to membership in the affiliated society, the entrance 

 fee shall be remitted. 



2. The Secretaries of the Association and of the 

 Sections shall be allowed $30 in lieu of their travel- 

 ing expenses to the annual meeting, or, if their 

 expenses are less than that sum, the amount of 

 their expenses. 



3. Members of the Executive Committee shall be 

 allowed $30 in lieu of their traveling expenses in 

 attendance on meetings of the Committee, held 

 apart from the meetings of the Association, or, if 

 their expenses are less than that sum, the amount 

 of their expenses. 



XI 

 These By-Laws and Eules of Procedure may be 

 amended by vote of the Council. 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



THE SOUTHWESTERN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



On November 8, after several previous 

 meetings, a number of the geologists of 

 Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Shreveport, and 

 other cities of the southwest organized an 

 association, to be knovsoi as the Southwestern 

 Geological Society. It is not the intention 

 of the founders that the society shall be a 



competitor of either the Geological Society 

 of America or the American Association of 

 Petroleum Geologists, but that it shall be a 

 regional organization comparable to the Cor- 

 dilleran section of the Geological Society of 

 America, the Geological Society of Washing- 

 ton, or other similar local organizations. It 

 is also intended that it shall provide, through 

 bi-monthly sectional meetings in each of the 

 important cities of the southwest, frequent 

 opportunities for the exchange of scientific 

 data and views. 



The promotion of fellowship and coopera- 

 tion are the paramount aims, and publica- 

 tions, for the present, except of brief ab- 

 stracts, will be a secondary consideration. 



The membership will be drawn from those 

 actively engaged in geology in the southwest, 

 both academic and economic, and will include 

 the professors of the state and other uni- 

 versities and members of the geological sur- 

 veys, as well as those engaged in economic 

 work. 



The ofiicers elected at the fi.rst meeting are 

 as follows : President, MjTon L. Fuller ; vice- 

 presidents, Wm. Kennedy and Wallace Pratt; 

 secretary E. W. Shuler; treasures, R. B. 

 Whitehead; council Robert T. Hill, H. P. 

 Bybee, John A. TJdden, W. E. Wrather and 

 Chester A. Hamil. 



Among the founder members were the 

 following; Ellis W. Shuler, Myron L. Fuller, 

 Robert T. Hill, F. W. Simonds, Wm. Ken- 

 nedy, R. B. Whitehead, John A. Udden, F. A. 

 Lahee, Wallace Pratt, F. L. Whitney, J. W. 

 Beede, H. P. Bybee, E. B. Hopkins, C. A. 

 Hamil, J. E. Brantly, V. V. Waite. 



All geologists of good standing interested 

 in the geolpgy of the southwest are invited 

 to send in their applications for membership 

 to Dr. Ellis W. Shuler, secretary. Southern 

 Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. 



THE CHICAGO MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 

 PHYSICAL SOCIETY 



The 100th regular meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Physical Society will be held in the Ryer- 

 son Physical Laboratory of the University of 

 Chicago, on Friday and Saturday, ISTovember 

 28 and 29, 1919. The occasion will be 



