NOVEMBEK 19, 1920] 



SCIENCE 



495 



lytes and of total solutes (molecules and ions) 



in the leaf tissue fluids.^ 



J. Arthur Harris, 

 Eoss Aiken Gortner, 

 John V. Lawrence 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR 

 THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF 

 THE COUNCIL 

 The meeting was called to order at the Hotel 

 Belmont, New York City, on October 17, at 11 A.M., 

 with Dr. Simon Plexner in the chair. The follow- 

 ing members were present: CatteU, Fairehild, 

 Plexner, Humphreys, Livingston, Nichols, Osborn. 



1. Minnies of last meeting (published in Sci- 

 ence, May 7, 1920) were approved. 



2. Audited report of retiring permanent Secre- 

 tary (Dr. L. O. Howard, for period from Novem- 

 ber 1, 1919, to April 1, 1920, was accepted and 

 ordered to be filed and published in Science. 



3. Summarized report of new permanent secre- 

 tary (Dr. Burton B. Livingston) for period from 

 April 1 to September 30, 1920, was accepted and 

 it was ordered that such parts of it be published in 

 Science as seem desirable to the permanent secre- 

 tary. (The financial statement will be presented 

 to the council before publication; other features 

 will shortly appear in Science.) 



4. Election of section officers. — ^Dr. A. E. Jenks 

 was elected to be vice-president and chairman of 

 Section H (Anthropology). Dr. E. A. Hooton was 

 elected secretary of Section H. 



5. A special committee on the organization of 

 Section H {Anthropology) , which is a new sec- 

 tion, formed by the division of the old Section of 

 Anthropology and Psychology, was established, this 

 committee to be appointed by the president and 

 permanent secretary in collaboration and to co- 

 operate with the section officers just elected. (This 

 committee will shortly be announced in Science.) 



6. Present permanent secretary was nominated to 

 the council, to continue to serve during the en- 

 suing 4-year term as heretofore; that is for one 

 third of his time. 



7. Other nominations for Association officers 

 8 This result holds within the individual classes. 



In comparing ligneous and herbaceous growth 

 forms we note that the growth form with the 

 higher total concentration has the lower conduc- 

 tivity. This is shown by the fact that the ratio of 

 K X 106 to A is 10923/1.217 for trees and shrubs 

 but 14308/0.846 for herbs. 



(president, general secretary, treasurer, five coun- 

 cil members, two executive committee members). 

 It was voted that these nominations be made at 

 the first meeting of the council at Chicago and 

 that elections occur at a later meeting of the 

 council. 



8. Nominations for Committee on Grants (3 

 members), to be appointed by the president with 

 advice of the council. The executive committee 

 recommends to the council that it is desirable to 

 nominate members who are not now members of 

 the Grants Committee, but the various branches of 

 science should continue to be severally represented 

 as heretofore. This matter should receive atten- 

 tion at first Chicago meeting of Council and nomi- 

 nations should be made at second meeting. 



9. Science News Service, supported by Mr. W. 

 E. Scripps. Dr. J. McK. CatteU and Dr. Geo. T. 

 Moore were elected to represent the association in 

 an advisory committee of this service. 



10. Editorial Committee for Science. — It was 

 voted that this committee continue to be consti- 

 tuted as heretofore; namely, of (a) its original 

 members, (b) the chairman of the association sec- 

 tions for each year, and (c) the members of the 

 executive committee. 



11. Determination of the chairman of Executive 

 Committee. — It was voted that chairman of this 

 committee is to be elected by the committee at its 

 last session at each 4-year meeting of the associa- 

 tion, the term of office of the chairman to be for 

 no more than four years. 



12. Election of Fellows. — Three hundred and 

 seven members were elected to fellowship, their 

 nominations having been received from the fol- 

 lowing sources: by Secretary of Section A, 6; by 

 Secretary of Section B, 37; by Secretary of Sec- 

 tion E, 35; by Secretary of Section G, 162; by 

 Secretary of Section O, 5; by Secretary of Sec- 

 tion Q, 56; by permanent secretary, 6. It was 

 voted that nominations for fellowship received by 

 the permanent secretary shall hereafter be referred 

 to the secretary of the proper section, so that all 

 nominations shall come to the executive committee 

 from the section secretaries. (Nominations for 

 fellowship should be sent to section secretaries 

 rather than to permanent secretary. Section sec- 

 retaries are urged to send their lists of nomina- 

 tions to the permanent secretary in time so that 

 they may be acted on at each meeting of the exec- 

 utive committee.) 



13. Avditor for permanent secretary's annual 

 report. The resignation of Mr. Herbert A. Gill 

 was accepted and filed, and the committee passed 



