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dent, F. E. Wright. Secretary, Dr. P. G. Nutting, 

 Westinghouse Eesoaroh Laboratory, East Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa. 



Association of American Geographers. — ^Decem- 

 ber 30 to January 1. President and Acting Sec- 

 retary, Dr. Charles E. Dryer, Oak Knoll, Fort 

 Wayne, Ind. 



National Council of Geography Teachers. — 

 December 29 and 30. President, Albert P. Brig- 

 ham. Secretary, Professor George J. Miller, State 

 Normal School, Maukato, Minn. 



American Society of Zoologists. — December 29 

 to 31, in joint session with Section F. Joint ses- 

 sion with Ecological Society of America on Tues- 

 day afternoon, December 30. Zoologists' dinner, 

 with address of Vice-president of Section F and 

 moving picture films of Barbadoes-Antigua Expe- 

 dition by C. C. Nutting, on Wednesday night, De- 

 cember 31. President, C. M. Child. Secretary, 

 Dr. W. C. Allee, Lake Forest College, Lake For- . 

 est. 111. 



Entomological Society of America. — ^December 

 29 and 30. President, J. G. Needham. Secretary, 

 Dr. J. M. Aldrich, XT. S. National Museum, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



American Association of Economic Eiitomolo- 

 gists. — December 31 to January 2. President, W. 

 G. O'Kane. Secretary, Albert F. Burgess, Gipsy 

 Moth Parasite Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, 

 Mass. 



Botanical Society of America. — ^December 30 to 

 January 1, with joint sessions as follows: Tues- 

 day, December 30, Section G; Wednesday, Decem- 

 ber 31, American Society for Horticultural Science; 

 Thursday, January 1, 10 A.M., Ecological Society 

 of America, 2 p.m., American Phytopathological 

 Society.. On Wednesday night, December 31, wUl 

 be the annual dinner for all botanists, followed by 

 presidential address. President, J. C. Arthur. 

 Secretary, Professor J. R. Schramm, N. Y. State 

 College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y. 



American Phytopathological Society. — President, 

 C. L. Shear. Secretary, Dr. G. E. Lyman, XT. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



American Society for Horticultural Science. — 

 December 29 to 31. President, J. W. Crow. Sec- 

 retary, Professor C. P. Close, College Park, Md. 



Association of Official Seed Analysts. — ^Will meet 

 on Monday and Tuesday, December 29 and 30. 

 President, H. D. Hughes. Secretary, E. C. Dahl- 

 berg. University Farm, St. Paul, Minn. 



Ecological Society of America. — December 30 to 

 January 1, with joint session with the American 

 Society of Zoologists on Tuesday, December 30, 



and with Botanical Society of America on Thurs- 

 day, January 1. President, Harrington Moore. 

 Secretary, Dr. Forrest Shreve, Desert Botanical 

 Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona. 



American Pomological Society. — December 30 to 

 January 1. President, L. H. Bailey. Secretary, 

 Professor Edward E. Lake, Hotel St. Nicholas, 

 Albany, Ga. 



American Microscopical Society. — December 30, 

 for luncheon and executive committee and on Wed- 

 nesday, December 31, for business meeting just fol- 

 lowing Section F afternoon session. President, L. 

 E. GrifiSn. Secretary, Professor Paul S. Welch, 

 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 



American Nature-Study Society. — December 30. 

 President, L. H. Bailey. Secretary, Dr. Anna 

 Botsford Comstock, Cornell University, Ithaca, 

 N. Y. 



Wilson Ornithological Club. — December 29 and 

 30. President, Myron H. Swenk. Secretary, Pro- 

 fessor Albert F. Gainer, 924 Broadway, Nashville, 

 Tenn. 



American Metric Association. — ^December 29 and 

 30. President, George F. Kunz. Secretary, How- 

 ard Eichards, Jr., 156 5th Avenue, New York, 

 N. Y. 



Society for the Pro/motion of Agricultural Sci- 

 ence. — Secretary, Dr. C. P. Gillette, Colorado Agri- 

 cultural College, Fort Collins, Colo. 



Society of Sigma Xi. — President, Julius Stieg- 

 litz. Secretary, Dr. Henry Baldwin Ward, Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



Gamma Alpha Graduate Scientific Fraternity. — 

 President, Norman E. Gilbert. Secretary, Dr. A1-' 

 bert H. Wright, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Phi Kappa Phi. — December 31. President, Ed- 

 win E. Sparks. Secretary, Dr. L. H. Pammel, 

 Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. 



Gamma Sigma Delta. — Thursday, January 1. 

 President, C. H. Eckles. Secretary, Dr. L. H. 

 Pammel, Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY IN NEW ZEALAND 



The Industries Committee of the ITew 

 Zealand House of Representatives has made 

 the following recommendations for the crea- 

 tion of a Board of Science and Industry: 



1. That a Board of Science and Industry be es- 

 tablished for the development of national re- 

 sources. 



2. That the board be given an assured finance 



