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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. LIII. No. 1377 



Telephone, etc 100.00 



Postage 800.00 



Esipenses of Chicago meeting 1,000.00 



Membership list, printing ('balance 



not provided by saJe of list) 1,000.00 



Miseellaneous 500.00 



Benjamin eolleetion of portraits and 

 autographs of Association presi- 

 dents 300.00 



Total approved at Chicago $52,220.00 



Additional items approved by Executive Commit- 

 tee April Si, 1921 : 



DoUar payments to divisions an.d dol- 

 lar allowances to affiliated acad- 

 emies (according to rules of pro- 

 cedure) $ 2,400.00 



Printing and mailing (to all mem- 

 bers) the Preliminary Announce- 

 ment of Chicago meeting 955.36 



Grant for research (arranged for by 

 Committee on Grants but not cov- 

 ered by appropriable funds in the 

 treasurer's hands at end of 1920; 

 approved by Executive Committee, 



March 7, 1921) 500.00 



Salary, assistant secretary (author- 

 ized by Council at Chicago meet- 

 ' ing) 1,000.00 



Total, additional items $ 4,855.36 



Total of modified budget $57,075.36 



Tlie executive committee expressed itself as 

 interested in the -work for the advancement of 

 science accomplislied through the grants thus 

 far made for research and the i)ermanent sec- 

 retary -was instructed to communicate with 

 the committee on grants and to arrange with 

 that committee for the preparation of a gen- 

 eral report on grants for research made by the 

 Association from year to year. 



The permanent secretary presented a report 

 on the ailairs of the Association, a summary of 

 which will appear in a later issue of Science. 

 ' The general secretary presented a report 

 considering the following items : (a) The sup- 

 plying of the past pulblications of the Asso- 

 ciation to scientific institutions outside of the 

 United States, (b) The 'Committee on Mex- 



ican scientific organization (see Science, N. 

 iS., 53: 4, 1921) is active and the work is in 

 progress, (c) The general secretary is mak- 

 ing a study of the problem of securing a fuller 

 attendance of members of the council at coun- 

 cil meetings. 



A campaign for new members, especially 

 among residents of Canada, was authorized, 

 with special reference to preparations for the 

 Toronto meeting. It was recommended that 

 the medical men of the United States be spe- 

 cially invited to join the association. 



It was voted that the edition of the new 

 volume of the Summarized Proceedings of the 

 association should include (a.) the number of 

 copies ordered and paid for in advance at the 

 time of printing (over 1,600 copies were thus 

 accounted for on April 23) and (&) an extra 

 supply of 500 copies. The permanent secre- 

 tary was authorized to distribute not over 50 

 copies gratis, to a selected list of libraries, etc., 

 throughout the world. (The volume, includ- 

 ing the Membership List, will appear about 

 June 1. It may 'be purchased by members of 

 the association for $1.50 if payment be made 

 in advance of the final going to press; the 

 price to non-raembers is $2.00.) It was voted 

 that the price of the 1921 volume of Sum- 

 marized Proceedings, including the Member- 

 ship List, should be $2.00 to members and 

 $2.50 to non-members, after the date of pub- 

 lication. 



i It was voted that the association would 

 welcome an address, ait the Toronto meeting, 

 under the auspices of the Society of Sigma 

 Si, an affiliated society of the Association. 

 - The committee adjourned at 10.05, to meet 

 in New York City early in November. 



Burton E. Livingston, 

 Permanent Secretary. 



MEDALS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY 

 OF SCIENCES 



I At the annual dinner of the Academy held 

 at the Hotel Powhatan on April 26, a surprise 

 was sprung upon the president, Dr. Charles D. 

 Walcott, when Dr. W. H. Welch took the 

 chair and introduced Dr. J. M. Clarke of the 

 State Museum, Albany, New York, who out- 



