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ductive efforts into the most important chan- 

 nels which promise him some success; and 

 thirdly by realizing his duty to make the value 

 and interest of his own work, and of his sci- 

 ence in general, appeal as widely as possible. 

 O. D. Kellogg 



SUMMARY OF A REPORT OF THE PERMANENT 



SECRETARY CONCERNING THE AFFAIRS 



OF THE ASSOCIATION, SUBMITTED TO 



THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AT 



ITS MEETING, APRIL 24, 1921 



The following paragraphs present the main 

 features of the permanent secretary's report 

 for the period from October 1, 1920, to March 

 31, 1921. 



In accordance with a vote of the Council at 

 Chicago, Doctor Sam F. Trelease was ap- 

 pointed assistant secretary, beginning Janu- 

 ary 1. The assistant secretary has thus far 

 been engaged mainly in editorial work on the 

 new membership list. 



The new volume of the Summarized Pro- 

 ceedings is far advanced and will soon appear 

 from the press. It is planned to be more use- 

 ful and satisfactory than the earlier volumes. 

 It will contain the constitution and by-laws of 

 the association, the simimarized reports of 

 seven annual meetings — from 1914 to 1920 

 (with citation references to Science for the 

 important official publications), and the com- 

 plete membership list corrected to the date of 

 printing. The list contains about 12,000 

 names and addresses. Subscriptions for the 

 new volume were booked at the price of $1.00 

 to members, until December 1, 1920, since 

 which date the price to members has been 

 $1.5G. Over 1,600 volumes have been paid for 

 in advance. (The present price will be main- 

 tained until the date of actual publication, 

 after which it will become $2 to members and 

 $2.50 to nonmembers. Subscriptions and re- 

 mittances should be sent to the Permanent 

 Secretary of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, Washington, D. C.) 



The American Mathematical Society, which 

 was invited to become affiliated with the asso- 

 ciation at the Chicago meeting, has ratified 

 this affiliation and is now an affiliated society. 



The roU of the society includes 313 members 

 of the association, of which number 107 are 

 association fellows. The society is therefore 

 entitled to two representatives in the council 

 of the association. 



Two state academies of science, the Michi- 

 gan Academy and the Oklahoma Academy, have 

 been added to the list of affiliated academies 

 through their election by the council at the 

 Chicago meeting. Each affiliated academy is 

 entitled to a representative in the association 

 council. 



(With the two academies that were affiliated 

 by the action of the Executive Committee on 

 April 24 — the !N"orth Carolina Academy and 

 the Maryland Academy — there are now twelve 

 affiliated academies, named as follows: Illi- 

 nois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, 

 Michigan, Nebraska, 'New Orleans, iNorth 

 Carolina, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin.) 



The arrangement for the affiliation of acad- 

 emies allows the academy to collect the annual 

 association dues of its national members 

 (members who are also members of the 

 American Association) and allows it to retain, 

 for its expenses all association entrance fees 

 obtained through its efforts and also one dollar 

 of each payment of association annual dues 

 collected by it. The permanent secretary's 

 office supplies each affiliated academy with 

 printed and addressed statement cards for all 

 of its national members and these are sent to 

 the members of the academy, so as to be re- 

 ceived October 1 of each year (the beginning 

 of the association fiscal year). For each $5 

 payment received in response to this billing 

 the academy transmits $4 to the office of the 

 permanent secretary, who then orders the free 

 journal for each member so paying. (The 

 journal can not be ordered until the $4 remit- 

 tance is in the hands of the permanent secre- 

 tary.) — Immediately after its affiliation each 

 newly affiliated academy receives from the 

 permanent secretary's office a payment amount- 

 ing to one dollar for each one of its national 

 members who has already paid his association 

 dues for the current year. When a member of 

 the association becomes a member of an affi- 

 liated academy after its affiliation the acad- 



