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SCIENCE 



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were received from 161 members. According 

 to the by-laws, members who were in arrears 

 for 1917 or 1918, and who had not taken ad- 

 vantage of this special offer, were dropped 

 from the membership list on October 1. 



Notifications and Certificates. — The en- 

 graved certificates of life-membership, mem- 

 bership, and fellowship have been revised, as 

 is also true of the notifications accompanying 

 these and the notifications of election to office. 

 ISTotification forms have been prepared and 

 Tjrought into use for acceptance of resigna- 

 -tion from the association and for notice of 

 Tetirement from the membership list on ac- 

 (Count of arrearages for over two years. 



Divisions of the Association. — The arrange- 

 Tnents provided for the Pacific Division and 

 the Southwestern Division have been carried 

 •out. ISTew members in the geographical prov- 

 inces of these divisions make their first pay- 

 Tuent to the division. After the first year, 

 dues are paid to the permanent secretary's 

 •of&ce. The divisions receive from the per- 

 manent secretary's office, the entrance fees ob- 

 tained through their efforts and also $1 a year 

 for each member in good standing. 



Affiliated Academies, Etc. — Eight state 

 •academies of science have become afiiliated, 

 "being those of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Ken- 

 tucky, ISTebraska, New Orleans, Ohio and Wis- 

 consin. The Southern Education Society is 

 ■similarly affiliated. These organizations col- 

 lect the dues of their national members (who 

 are also members of the A. A. A. S.), using 

 ■white statement cards supplied from the per- 

 manent secretary's office but sent out by the 

 affiliated organizations. Such affiliated organ- 

 izations remit to the permanent secretary's 

 office $4 a year for each national member in 

 good standing in the association. 



Change of Office. — The x>ermanent secre- 

 tary's office has been moved to the third floor 

 •of the Smithsonian Institution building, the 

 new quarters being much more satisfactory 

 than the old ones. Mr. Sam Woodley has 

 •charge of the office, with two clerks. 



Addressograph Plates. — Additions have been 

 made to the addressograph plates, so that 

 members' addresses printed therefrom show 



the year of election to membership, to fellow- 

 ship and to life-membership. For example, 

 the symbol IT denotes that election to mem- 

 bership occurred in 1917; 17ri9 means the 

 same, with added information that election 

 to fellowship occurred in 1919; L19 means 

 that the member became a life-member in 

 1919. 



Arrangement of Plates. — The file of ad- 

 dressograph plates is now segregated into geo- 

 graphical groups, the members' names for 

 each state, etc., being filed together. For 

 states with affiliated academies, names of 

 academy members are segregated, each such 

 state thus having two alphabets. Further- 

 more, each group of plates is subdivided to 

 show (a) those who have paid and (b) those 

 who have not paid dues for current year, and 

 (c) life members. 



STATUS OF MEMBERSHIP (SEPTEMBER 30, 1920) 



No. of members paid-up for 1920 . . 9,649 

 No. of life members 353 



■ Total paid-up membership 10,002 



No. of members dn arrears for 1919 



and 1920 447 



No. of members in arrears for 1920 



only 938 



No. of members who still owe $2 



on account of dues for 1920 . . 55 



■ Total number of members not in 



good standing, but whose names 

 are retained on membership Hst. 1,140 

 Total of names on member- 

 ship Ust 11,442 



Two hundred and one new members were 

 elected between November 1, 1919, and Octo- 

 ber 1, 1920. Approximately 400 new members 

 have been elected since the last-named date. 



Burton E. Livingston, 

 Permanent Secretary 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 

 STANDARDIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL LABORA- 

 TORY APPARATUS 



Through the efforts of certain apparatus 

 manufacturers, there met informally at the 

 Chemists Club, New York City, on August 2, 

 representatives of the following companies to 



