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Section 1. " State and city academies affiliated 

 witli the association may also be allowed for 

 their expenses, the entrance fees collected 

 through their efforts and an amount for their 

 expenses not to exceed $1 for each member in 

 good standing." 



Under ithe head of new business Professor 

 John M. Coulter and Professor H. B. Ward 

 presented a veribal report for the committee on 

 affiliation of state and local academies. The 

 report dealt with preliminary steps looking 

 towards the affiliation of state academies in 

 accordance with the following general plan : 



1. That state and local academies may be aflBli- 

 ated with the association on a financial basis that 

 will yield the associaton $4 net per member. 



2. Any state or local academy which concludes 

 arrangements for affiliation within the first six 

 months of 1920. may be accepted for the entire 

 year 1920, fees paid to the association before that 

 date to be adjusted in accordance with the detailed 

 plan. 



3. Two alternative plans are considered with re- 

 spect to membership in the academies, namely: 



(o) All members of the academies to become 

 members of the association. 



(6) To establish two grades of membership, of 

 i which one will be national, involving mem- 



bership in both academy and association, 

 the other local, consisting of academy 

 members only. 



4. The academies will collect joint dues and 

 transmit the association's share to the treasurer. 



It was voted that this report of the commit- 

 tee on affiliation of state and local academies 

 be received and approved. 



In accordance with the provision of the new 

 constitution which calls for an executive com- 

 mittee of eight elected members to replace the 

 old council, the following gentlemen were duly 

 elected members of this committee: J. McK. 

 Cattell, H. L. Fairchild, Simon Flexner, W. J. 

 Humphreys, D. T. MacDougal, A. A. Noyes, 

 Herbert Osborn, H. B. Ward. 



Under the terms of the revised constitution 

 Dr. H. L. Fairchild and Dr. Franz Boas were 

 duly elected members of the council. 



Dr. E. M. Yerkes and Dr. G. T. Moore were 

 elected members of the committee on grants. 



The seventy-third meeting of the association 



and of the affiliated societies will be held at 

 Chicago, beginning on Monday, December 27, 

 with the first general session on Tuesday even- 

 ing. It was recommended that the four suc- 

 ceeding meetings be held in Toronto or Buffalo, 

 Boston, Cincinnati and Washington. 



Officers were elected as follows: 



President: Dr. L. O. Howard, Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, Washington, D. C. 



General Secretary: Professor E. L. Nichols, Cor- 

 nell University. 



Vice-presidents : 



Section A, Mathematics: D. B. Curtis, North- 

 western University, Evanston, 111. 



Section B, Physics: J. C. McLennan, University 

 of Toronto. 



Section C, Chemistry: S. W. Parr, University of 

 Illinois. 



Section D, Astronomy: Joel Stebbins, University 

 of Illinois. 



Section E, Geology and Geography: Charles 

 Sehuchert, Yale University. 



Section F, Zoological Sciences: J. S. Kingsley, 

 University of Illinois. 



Section G, Botanical Sciences: E. H. True, Bu- 

 reau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C. 



Section H, Anthropology: G. R. Gordon, Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, New York. 



Section I, Psychology: E. K. Strong, Jr., Car- 

 negie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. 



Section M, Engineering: C. L. Mees, Rose Poly- 

 technic Institute, Terre Haute, Ind. 



Section N, Medicine: J. Erlanger, Washington 

 University, St. Louis. 



Section Q, Education: C. H. Judd, University of 

 Chicago. fj ijj 



George T. Moore, 

 General Secretary 



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