Mat 20, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



477 



of Section H (Anthropology), to take the 

 place of Dr. Berthold Laufer, resigned from 

 the association. (The new committee mem- 

 ber's term of office expires at the end of the 

 1924r-25 annual meeting.) 



A special committee, consisting of J. McK. 

 Cattell (chairman), L. O. Howard, D. T. Mac- 

 Dougal, and B. E. Livingston, was appointed 

 to arrange for sections C, K, L, M, and IST at 

 the Toronto meeting, this committee to co- 

 operate witti the corresponding section com- 

 mittees in so far as their members have been 

 elected. It was voted that this committee 

 should organize a committee of seven mem- 

 bers for each of the three fields, (a) Social and 

 Economic Sciences, (6) Engineering, and (c) 

 Medical Sciences, each of these three com- 

 mittees to survey the general relations be- 

 tween the association and the committee's 

 province, witli the aim of securing more satis- 

 factory representation of that field of science 

 in the work of the association. It was recom- 

 mended that the membership of these three 

 committees include eminent scientists without 

 regard to their membership in the association, 

 the permanent secretary and at least one other 

 memiber of the association Ibeing on each. 



The question regarding the organization of 

 the History of Science was again given care- 

 ful consideration by the executive committee. 

 iThe special committee that arranged the ex- 

 cellent program on this subject for the Chi- 

 cago meeting has expressed itself as in favor 

 of the History of Science being made the field 

 pf a new sedtion of the association, but the 

 consideration that this field overlaps the fields 

 of the already existing sections has prevented 

 the executive committee from concurring with 

 the special committee on this point. The 

 council of the association (at its Chicago 

 meeting) favored the organization of the His- 

 tory of Science as a part of Section L (His- 

 torical and Philological Sciences), not yet or- 

 ganized, but the special committee does not 

 favor this arrangement. The executive com- 

 mittee finally concluded to suggest that a spe- 

 cial society for the History of Science might 

 be inaugurated and that this society might 

 become an affiliated society of the association. 



At the suggestion of the American Society 

 of Zoologists, a resolution was adopted favor- 

 ing the duty-free importation of scientific ma- 

 terials into the United States by educational 

 and research institutions. 



The executive committee expressed its re- 

 gret that, owing to lack of funds, the associa- 

 tion found it impossible to comply with a 

 suggestion recently received from the Hall 

 of Fame of New York University, thart l3ie 

 association provide a bust of an eminent sci- 

 entist for the Hall of Fame. Upon invitation 

 from the chancellor, the council and the com- 

 mittee on the Hall of Fame of New York 

 University, three delegates were appointed to 

 represent the Association on the occasion 

 of the unveiling of a tablet in honor of Louis 

 Agassiz — a past president of the Association — 

 this ceremony to occur in the colonnade of 

 the Hall of Faime, at University Heights, New 

 York City, on May 21, 1921. Messrs. C. B. 

 Davenport, H. F. OSborn, and E. B. Wilson 

 were appointed. 



A proposal to estalblish a section on the 

 Evolution of Religion and Philosophy was 

 given consideration and it was voted that, 

 " since the subjects referred to are already 

 provided for by existing sections of the Asso- 

 ciation, it seems unnecessary to inaugurate a 

 special section for them at this time." 



Four new items were approved for the i)er- 

 manent secreary's budget for 1921, these hav- 

 ing been omitted from the budget as approved 

 by the council at the Chicago meeting. A 

 statement of the entire budget follows: 



Permanent Secretary's Budget for 1921. 



Items approved 'by tlie Council at the Chicago 

 Meeting : 



Journals $36,000.00 



Salaides: 



Pennajient secretary 2,500.00 



Executive a/ssistajit 2,520.00 



Usual clerdcal help 2,000.00 



Special clerical help for new mem- 

 bership list 800.00 



Travel expenses, section secretaries, 



etc 1,500.00 



Office supplies 800.00 



Stationery and printing 2,400.00 



