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tive memibers of the Association from 1875 

 until death.) 



Dr. J. C. Fields, president of the Royal 

 Canadian Institute, was elected chairman of 

 the local committee of the American Associa- 

 tion, for the forthcoming Toronto meeting. 



Dr. Sam F. Trelease (assistant secretary of 

 tke association) was elected secretary of the 

 council for the Toronto meeting. 



It was voted that a special co m mittee con- 

 sisting of the president, the permanent secre- 

 tary, and the general secretary should arrange, 

 in cooperation with the local committee for 

 the Toronto meeting, for the invitation of an 

 eminent British man of science to attend the 

 Toronto meeting, to give a general public lec- 

 ture on the evening of Friday, December 30, 

 ■and to present such scientific papers as he 

 may be willing to give, before the section of 

 the association or the affiliated societies to 

 which his field of science may be related. 



It was voted that the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science be invited to be 

 officially represented at the Toronto meeting. 

 A -committee consisting of the president and 

 the two secretaries was authorized to invite 

 representation by other organizations at the 

 Toronto meeting. Dr. J. McK. Cattell was 

 elected to be an official delegate of the Ameri- 

 can Association to attend the forthcoming Ed- 

 inborough meeting of the British Association. 

 The committee mentioned was authorized to 

 appoint other representatives. 



It was voted that the permanent secretary 

 and the general secretary be constituted a spe- 

 cial committee to render a decision in the case 

 of any fellowship nomination for which the 

 ■section secretary may fail to make definite 

 recommendation. (Nominations for fellow- 

 ship in the Association may be made by any 

 member in good standing, including the nomi- 

 nee himself, and they are im m ediately re- 

 ferred, by the permanent secretary, to the 

 proper section secretary, who investigates each 

 nomination and transmits it, with his recom- 

 mendation to the permanent secretary for ref- 

 erence to the executive committee. The ex- 

 ecutive committee acts for the council in elect- 

 ing fellows at the spring and autumn meet- 



ings of the committee and it recommends 

 fellowship elections to the council when a 

 council session follows promptly upon the 

 committee meeting — as during the annual 

 meetings of the association. Only fellows may 

 hold office in the association and fellows are 

 designalted by an asterisk in the list of mem- 

 bers.) 



, The American Society for Testing Ma- 

 terials (C. L. Warwick, secretary, 1315 Spruce 

 Street, Philadelphia, Pa.) was constituted an 

 affiliated society. (The membership of the 

 society includes 62 fellows of the association 

 and the society is therefore entitled to one 

 representative in the association council.) 

 I The American Society of Agronomy (P. E. 

 Brown, secretary, Iowa State College, Ames, 

 Iowa) was constituted an affiliated society. 

 ,(The membership of the society includes 93 

 fellows of the association and the society is 

 therefore entitled to one representative in the 

 association council.) 



The American Geographical Society of !N"ew 

 York (Isaiah Bowman, director, Broadway at 

 156th Street, New York City) was constituted 

 an affiliated society. 



I The North Carolina Academy of Science 

 (Z. P. Metcalf, president, North Carolina Ex- 

 periment Station, West Raleigh, N. C.) was 

 constituted an affiliated academy, according to 

 the special arrangement for the affiliation of 

 academies. (Affiliated academies collect the 

 association dues of those of their members 

 who are also merolbers of the association. 

 iThey each have a representative in the asso- 

 ciation council and they are allowed to retain 

 the entrance fees collected and one dollar of 

 each annual dues collected. When an acad- 

 emy is first affiliated it receives from the as- 

 sociation one dollar for each one of its mem- 

 ibers that have already paid to the permanent 

 secretary association dues for the current 

 year.) 



The Maryland Academy of Sciences was 

 constituted an affiliated academy, according to 

 the special arrangement just mentioned. 



Professor T. W. Todd, professor of anatomy. 

 Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 

 was elected a memlber of the section committee 



