January 10, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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Coekerell to whom a grant of $75.00 had 

 been made. 



A report was received from Mr. Charles 

 Peabody, delegate of the association to the 

 XIV. Congress International d'Anthro- 

 pologie et Archeologie Prehistorique, 

 which was held in Geneva, September 9-14, 

 1912. 



The council passed the following resolu- 

 tion on "Expert Testimony," presented 

 jointly by Dr. M. G. Lloyd and Dr. J. A. 

 Holmes : 



Besolved: that a special committee of five be 

 appointed by the president to collect and study 

 data covering the practise in different countries 

 relative to the employment of expert testimony in 

 court procedure, and to cooperate in joint com- 

 mittee with representatives of other national or- 

 ganizations in studying this question with a view 

 to submitting recommendation for new state and 

 national legislation concerning the same; 



That the permanent secretary of the association 

 extend to other national organizations interested 

 in this subject an invitation from this association 

 to appoint a member on said joint committee, and 

 to cooperate further with this association in taking 

 such action relative to this matter as will best 

 promote public interest; 



That this social committee of five shall report 

 both its findings and the findings of the joint 

 committee, and also such action as may be taken 

 by other organizations to the council of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science 

 at its meeting in January, 1914. 



The council adopted the following, intro- 

 duced by Professor H. B. Ward : 



Besolved: That the council refer to the commit- 

 tee on policy the question of granting to secre- 

 taries of sections, the general secretary, and the 

 secretary of the council, a mileage allowance in 

 addition to the hotel allowance now made, and that 

 the council empower the committee to take such 

 action as may seem wise after investigation of the 

 subject. 



The following resolution, introduced by 

 Dr. J. A. Holmes, was adopted by the 

 council : 



Besolved: that a special committee of five be 

 appointed by the president to consider and report 



to the committee on policy a plan for the more 

 rapid increase in the membership of the associa- 

 tion. 



That the committee on policy is hereby author- 

 ized to employ an associate secretary at a salary 

 not to exceed $3,000 per annum, whose traveling 

 expenses shall also be paid out of the treasury not 

 to exceed $800 per annum and whose special duty 

 it shall be to carry forward this extension work. 



The committee on policy is hereby authorized to 

 adopt, if necessary, such method as it may deem 

 best for collecting additional funds for meeting 

 such expenditure as may be needed. 



The president later appointed on this 

 committee the following: Messrs. J. A. 

 Holmes, Chas. Baskerville, Hugh M. Smith, 

 H. B. Ward, H. W. Springsteen. 



The council adopted the following reso- 

 lutions, introduced by Dr. J. McK. Cattell : 



Besolved: that the council of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science re- 

 quests the educational institutions, government 

 bureaus and other agencies engaged in scientific 

 research to send one or more delegates to the 

 annual convocation week meetings of the associa- 

 tion and its afSIiated societies, and that when 

 possible the traveling expenses of the delegates be 

 paid by the institutions which they represent. 



Besolved: that a committee of three be ap- 

 pointed by the chair to draw up a list of institu- 

 tions to which this resolution, together with a 

 suitable letter, shall be sent by the permanent 

 secretary. 



The following were elected as members 

 of the council to serve for three years: 

 Messrs. J. McK. Cattell, J. M. Coulter and 

 N. L. Britton. 



At a meeting of the general committee 

 held Thursday evening, January 2, invita- 

 tions for future meetings were received 

 from Atlanta, Philadelphia, Nashville, St. 

 Louis, San Francisco, Leland Stanford, 

 University of California, Portland, Seattle, 

 Niagara Falls, Cincinnati, Columbus and 

 Denver. 



It was resolved to hold the next meeting 

 in Atlanta, Georgia. It was further re- 

 solved to recoimnend to the next general 

 committee that the meeting for 1914 be 



