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SCIENCE 



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Remarks by the chairman, Hon. Albert F. 

 Dawson, former member of Congress from 

 the district; presentation of the building to 

 the Department of Commerce, by Professor 

 James M. White, architect; acceptance of the 

 laboratory on behalf of the Department of 

 Commerce and delivery to the Bureau of 

 Fisheries, by Hon. Edwin F. Sweet, assistant 

 secretary of commerce, with address on " Fed- 

 eral and State responsibility for maintaining 

 resources of interstate waters"; response by 

 Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Commissioner of Fish- 

 eries; address on "Significance of the station 

 to industries," by Hon. Harry E. Hull, mem- 

 ber of CongTess; address on " Aquiculture and 

 science," by Dr. Edward A. Birge, president 

 of the University of Wisconsip; address on 

 " The spirit of cooperation in the Bureau of 

 Fisheries," by Professor Frank E. Lillie, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago ; address on " The fisheries 

 biological station in relation to the universi- 

 ties," by Professor George Lefevre, University 

 of Missouri; and address on "The station as 

 an aid to pure science," by Professor Charles 

 C. Nutting, University of Iowa. 



On the day following the dedicatory exer- 

 cises there was held in the laboratory build- 

 ing a conference regarding the application of 

 science to the utilization and preservation of 

 the resources of interior waters. The chair- 

 man of the conference was Professor S. A. 

 Forbes, University of Ulinois, and the prin- 

 cipal address was by Professor James G. 

 Needham, Cornell University, on " ^he bio- 

 logical resources of our inland waters." 



THE CHICAGO MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 



ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 



OF SCIENCE 



The history of science is to be a part of the 

 field covered by the new Section L (Historical 

 and Philological Sciences) of the American 

 ' Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 A temporary committee to have charge of 

 the organization of this aspect of Section L 

 has been appointed by the President of the 

 Association. The personnel of this committee 

 is as follows: Dr. William A. Locy (chair- 

 man), Northwestern University, Evanston, 

 Ul. ; Mr. Frederick E. Brasch (secretary), 



The John Crerar Library, Chicago, 111.; Dr. 

 Florian Cajori, University of California, 

 Berkeley, Calif.; Professor A. P. Carman, 

 University of Illinois, Urbana, 111.; Professor 

 Henry G. Gale, University of Chicago, lU. ; 

 Dr. Charles Judson Herrick, University of 

 Chicago, Chicago, 111.; Dr. Felis Neumann, 

 War Department, Washington, D. C; Dr. 

 George Sarton, Harvard University, Cam- 

 bridge Mass.; Dr. William H. Welch, The 

 Johns Hopkins University, Chicago, lU. A 

 program on the History of Science is being 

 planned for the approaching Chicago meeting. 



In accordance with a recent action of the 

 executive committee of the council of the 

 American Association, the president of the 

 association has appointed a special committee 

 to cooperate with the officers of the new Sec- 

 tion H (Anthropology), to organize the sec- 

 tion and prepare a program for the Chicago 

 meeting. The vice-president of the new sec- 

 tion is Dr. A. E. Jenks, University of Minne- 

 sota, Minneapolis, Minn. The secretary is Dr. 

 E. A. Hooton, Peabody Museum, Cambridge, 

 Mass. The special committee just appointed 

 has the following personnel: Dr. Clark 

 Wissler (Chairman), American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York, N. Y.; Dr. G. 

 G. MacCurdy (Secretary), Yale University, 

 New Haven Conn.; Dr. Roland B. Dixon, 

 Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. ; Dr. 

 J. Walter Fewkes, Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 

 D. C; Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, U. S. National 

 Museum, Washington, D. C. ; Dr. A. L. 

 Kroeber, University of California, Berkeley, 

 Calif.; Dr. F. G. Speck, University of Penn- 

 sylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 



One of the general-interest, evening sessions 

 of the approaching Chicago meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science will be devoted to an illustrated lec- 

 ture by Dr. R. F. Griggs, of Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, on his exporations and studies in the 

 volcanic region of Katmai, Alaska. The date 

 and place of this lecture will be announced 

 in the general program, which will be avail- 

 able before the opening of the meeting on 

 December 2Y. 



