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5:30 P.M. Delegates and citizens assemble at 

 Elks' Hall. 



6 P.M. Academy banquet. 



8:15 P.M. Public session of the academy in the 

 Washuigiton school and auditorium. Address by 

 the president, "Alaska and its Eiches." (Illus- 

 trated by lantern.) 



9:30 P.M. Informal reception. 



SATTJEDAT, PEBRUAEY 21 



9 A.M. General scientific session for the reading 

 of papers. 



1:30 P.M. Business session. Election of officers. 



The Indiana Academy of Science has been 

 invited to participate and will send a number 

 of delegates as well as contribute to the pro- 

 gram. The South American expedition con- 

 ducted jointly by the University of Indiana 

 and the University of Illinois will be discussed 

 by the director, Dean C. H. Eigenmann, of 

 the University of Indiana. 



Amendments to the constitution providing 

 for the affiliation of the academy with the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science and creating two classes' of mem- 

 bers, viz., national memibers and local mem- 

 bers, have been unanimously accepted and 

 will come up for final adoption. 



GIFT OF THE CARNEGIE CORPORATION TO 



THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



AND THE NATIONAL RESEARCH 



COUNCIL 



The Carnegie Corporation of New York has 

 announced its purpose to give $5,000,000 for 

 the use of the National Academy of Sciences 

 and the National Research Council. It is 

 understood that a portion of the money will 

 be used to erect in Washington a home of 

 suitable architectural dignity for the two 

 beneficiary organizations. The remainder will 

 be placed in the hands of the academy, which 

 enjoys a federal charter, to be used as a 

 permanent endowment for the National Re- 

 search Council. In announcing this gift the 

 report from the council says : 



This impressive gift is a fi,tting supplement {o 

 Mr. Carnegie's great contributions to science and 

 industry. 



The council is a democratic organization based 



upon some forty of the great scientific and engi- 

 neering societies of the country, which elect dele- 

 gates to its constituent divisions. It is not sup- 

 ported or controlled by the government, differing 

 in this respect from other similar organizations 

 established since the beginning of the war in Eng- 

 land, Italy, Japan, Canada and Australia. It in- 

 tends, if possible to achieve in a democracy and by 

 dem'ocratic methods the great scientific results 

 which the Germans achieved by autocratde meth- 

 ods in an autocracy while avoiding the obnoxious 

 features of the autocratic regime. 



The council was organized in 1916 as a measure 

 of national preparedness and its efforts during the 

 war were mostly confined to assisting the govern- 

 ment in the solution of pressing war-time problems 

 involving scientific investigation. Reorganized 

 since the war on a peace-time footing, it is now 

 attempting to stimulate and promote scientific re- 

 search in agriculture, medicine, and industry, and 

 iu every field of pure science. The war afforded a 

 convincing demonstration of the dependence of 

 modern nations upon scientific achievement, and 

 nothing is more certain than that the United States 

 will ultimately fall behind in its competition with 

 the other great peoples of the world unless there be 

 persistent and energetic effort expended to foster 

 scientific discovery. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. Burton E. Livingston has been elected 

 permanent secretary of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, to 

 succeed Dr. L. O. Howard, elected president 

 of the asociation. Dr. Livingston will retain 

 the professorship of plant physiology at the 

 Jolms Hopkins University, and the office of 

 the association will remain at the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



Dr. W. a. Noyes, head of the department 

 of chemistry of the University of Hlinois, has 

 been elected president of the American Chem- 

 ical Society. 



At the Cincinnati meeting of the Federa- 

 tion of Societies for Experimental Biology, 

 presidents of the constituent societies were 

 elected as follows: The American Physiolog- 

 ical Society, Professor Warren P. Lombard, 

 of the University of Michigan (reelected) ; 

 the American Bio-chemical Society, Professor 

 Stanley J. Benedict, of Cornell University; 



