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SCIENCE 



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the Grants Committee to distribute dtiring 

 the year 1921. 



On the Jane M. Smith fund the following- 

 were appointed with power to act during 

 1921: L. O. Howard, "W. J. Humphreys and 

 B. E. Livingston. 



Among the resolutions adopted by the 

 Coimcil are the following: 



Be it resolved: That the Amerioaa Association 

 for the Advancement of Science would welcome the 

 organization of Mexican men of science, and their 

 af&liation with this Association. 



Sesolved: That a committee of seven be ap- 

 pointed to cooperate with such organization as 

 Mexican men of science may form. 



The following were appointed on this com- 

 mittee: L. O. Howard, Chairman, A. E. 

 Douglas, E. L. Hewitt, D. S. Hill, W. J. 

 Hmnphreys, D. T. MacDougal and W. Lind- 

 gren. 



"Whereas the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science includes sections on Physiol- 

 ogy, Experimental Medicine and Zoology, and 



Wheeeas advancement of knowledge in these 

 sciences, which is dependent upon intensive study 

 of living tissue, is inevitably followed not only by 

 amelioration of himian suffering, but also by a 

 lessening of animal disease and by substantial eco- 

 nomic gain and by conservation of the food supply, 

 and 



Whereas this association is convinced that the 

 rights of animals are adequately safeguarded by 

 existing laws, by the general character of the in- 

 stitutions which authorize animal experimentation 

 and by the general character of the individuals en- 

 gaged therein, 



Therefore be it resolved, that this association 

 agrees fully with the fundamental aim of those 

 whose efforts are devoted to the safeguarding of 

 the rights of animals but deprecates unwise at- 

 tempts to limit or prevent the conduct of animal 

 experimentation such as have recently been de- 

 feated in California and Oregon, for the reason 

 that such efforts retard advance in methods of pre- 

 vention, control and treatment of disease and in- 

 jury of both man and animals and threaten serious 

 economic loss, and be it further 



Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be in- 

 cluded in the official records of this Association, 

 and that copies be sent to the national congress, to 



the legislatures of each state in the union and to 

 each member of the Association. 



"Whereas, clean culture of roadsides and the 

 drainage of marshes in the United States is im- 

 periling the existence of the vidld-life of our coun- 

 try not now included in special preserves, and 



"Whereas, the preservation of this wild-life not 

 in preserves is felt to be of great national impor- 

 tance not only to students and lovers of nature, 

 but to human welfare in general, therefore. 



Be it resolved, by the council of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, that 

 it appreciates the importance of preserving this 

 wild-life not in preserves, and that it lends its 

 moral support to the effort to combine all interested 

 organizations in a cooperative investigation and 

 conservation program for the preservation of our 

 unprotected wild-life. 



"Whereas, in recognition of the unique character 

 and value of our National Parks and Monuments 

 to present and future generations, twenty-four suc- 

 cessive Congresses have wisely resisted attempts to 

 commercialize them and have preserved them in- 

 violate for nearly half a century, 



"Whereas, certain private interests are now seek- 

 ing to secure special privileges in these areas, 

 which if granted will seriously interfere with their 

 true purpose and undoubtedly result in the entire 

 commercialization of these unique national mu- 

 seums. 



Therefore, he it resolved, that the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science request 

 members of Congress first to amend the "Water 

 Power Act so that it shall not apply to National 

 Parks and Monuments and that their full control 

 be restored to Congress, and second, to reject all 

 present and future measures which propose to sur- 

 render any part of these National Parks and 

 Monuments to private control or to divert them in 

 any way from their original and exclusive purpose, 

 the preservation for all future generations of 

 unique representations of natural conditions such 

 as exist in no other part of the world. 



SOME ECONOMIC PHASES OF BOTANYi 



It is an old custom for the retiring vice- 

 president of this section to deliver an address. 



1 Address of the vice-president and chairman of 

 Section G, botany, American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, Chicago, 1920. 



