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SCIENCE 



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ent. The following resolution was unani- 

 mouly adopted: 



This committee, on behalf of the western mem- 

 bers of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, expresses its gratification at 

 the proposal to hold a meeting on the Pacific C!oast 

 during the summer of the year 1915, and hereby 

 extends a cordial invitation to the association and 

 to all its afiiliated societies to meet in San Tran- 

 ciseo at the time of the Panama Exposition. 



Sub-committees and their chairmen were 

 appointed as follows : Time and place of meet- 

 ing, A. C. Lawson; transportation, H. S. 

 Ryan; hotels and accommodations, A. L. 

 Kroeber; program, G. E. Hale; excursions, 

 A. G. McAdie; reception and entertainment 

 of visiting ladies, Agnes Claypole Moody; 

 membership, Vernon L. Kellogg; publicity, J. 

 C. Merriam; finance, D. T. MacDougal; ex- 

 ecutive committee, W. W. Campbell. An 

 honorary local committee of one hundred will 

 also be appointed. 



The question of the organization of the 

 Pacific Coast members into a geographical 

 division with power to hold meetings and pre- 

 sent scientific programs was discussed at 

 length. A motion that it be the sense of the 

 committee that such a division should be es- 

 tablished was unanimously carried; but it was 

 the general feeling that the success of such a 

 step would depend upon the attitude of the 

 Pacific Association of Scientific Societies. 

 It is to be hoped that this association will 

 merge itself into the Pacific Coast Division 

 of the American Association and its constitu- 

 ent societies become afiiliated with the latter. 

 The executive committee was asked to con- 

 sider the whole matter and to endeavor to se- 

 cure the cooperation of the various scientific 

 societies on the Pacific Slope. 



The affiliation of these societies and an ac- 

 tive campaign for membership would un- 

 doubtedly greatly increase the membership of 

 the association on the Pacific Coast. This, 

 together with the attractive features of the 

 exposition and the varied natural beauties of 

 the Pacific slope, should cause a very large 

 attendance at the meeting in 1915. 



E. P. Lewis, 



Secretary 



MINUTES OF TEE COUNCIL OF TEE 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOB TEE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



The council of the association met at the 

 Cosmos Club, Washington, on Tuesday, April 

 22, 1913, at 5 p.m. Those present were: 

 Messrs. Wilson, Alsberg, Bessey, Boas, Cat- 

 tell, Campbell, Diller, Humphreys, Kober, 

 MacBride, MacDougal, Nichols, Pickering, 

 Woodward and Howard. 



The permanent secretary read nominations 

 made by the sectional committee of Section 

 K for Dr. Theodore Hough, as vice-president 

 and chairman, and Dr. John E. Murlin, as 

 secretary. On motion, these were elected. 



On motion, Mr. Seymour C. Loomis was 

 made a fellow of the association. 



Mr. Cattell submitted the report of the 

 committee on policy, and, on motion, the fol- 

 lowing resolutions recommended by the com- 

 mittee were adopted : 



Resolved, That the Pacific Coast committee be 

 authorized to secure an associate secretary for the 

 Pacific Coast at a salary of one hundred dollars a 

 month, this officer to devote at least one half of 

 his working time on the work of the Pacific Coast 

 committee in the effort to advance the interests 

 and increase the membership of the association 

 under the direction of the Pacific Coast committee, 

 and, further, that an appropriation of six hundred 

 dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 

 be made for paying the office and traveling ex 

 penses of such secretary. 



Eesolved, That a committee consisting of Messrs. 

 J. A. Holmes, W. J. Humphreys, H. M. Smith and 

 the permanent secretary, be authorized in the early 

 autumn to select and appoint a temporary asso- 

 ciate secretary for the south at a salary of two 

 hundred dollars a month, for not more than four 

 months, with two hundred dollars in addition for 

 traveling and office expenses, whose duties shall be 

 to advance the interests and increase the member- 

 ship of the association in the south, with an espe- 

 cial effort to increase the interest in, and the at- 

 tendance at, the Atlanta meeting. 



On motion, the recommendation that Dr. 

 Carl L. Alsberg be elected vice-president and 

 chairman of Section C was adopted. 



On motion, Dr. Walter B. Pillsbury was 

 made a fellow of the association, followed by 

 the adoption of a motion that he be elected 

 vice-president and chairman of Section H. 



