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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXXVII. No. 957 



On motion, Mr. Judson G. Wall was made 

 a fellow of the association, followed by the 

 adoption of a motion that he be elected vice- 

 president and chairman of Section I. 



The following resolutions recommended by 

 the committee on policy were adopted: 



Sesolved, That the Pacific Coast committee be 

 authorized, in the absence of constitutional au- 

 thority, to designate its meetings at which scien- 

 tific programs are presented as ' ' Meetings of the 

 Pacific Coast Division of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. ' ' 



Resolved, That the Pacific Coast committee be 

 placed in charge of all arrangements, including 

 program, for the proposed Pacific Coast meetings 

 in 1915 in cooperation with the several sectional 

 secretaries and in consultation with the permanent 

 secretary. 



The following preamble and resolution 

 recommended by the committee on policy was 



vidual societies composing the present Pacific As- 

 sociation of Scientific Societies. 



At 6.10 P.M., the council adjourned. 



L. O. Howard, 



Permanent Secretary 



Whereas, It is eminently desirable that scien- 

 tific men especially skilled in their departments be 

 appointed as heads of the scientific bureaus of the 

 government, therefore, 



Sesolved, That a committee of three be ap- 

 pointed to communicate to the President of the 

 United States that it is the opinion of the council 

 of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science that a scientific man skilled in meteor- 

 ology should be selected as the Chief of the 

 Weather Bureau. 



The following resolution recommended by 

 the committee on policy was adopted: 



Besolved, That the president be authorized, with 

 the advice of the committee on policy, to appoint 

 a Committee of One Hundred on Scientific Re- 

 search under the government, in the universities 

 and in other institutions. 



On motion, it was 



Besolved, That the council allow the sectional 

 committee of Section C to nominate and elect the 

 new secretary of that section. 



On motion, it was 



Besolved, That the council delegate full powers 

 to the committee on policy with respect to all 

 arrangements concerning the organization of the 

 Pacific Coast Division of the association, including 

 all matters relating to the affiliation of the indi- 



THE ANNIVEBSABY MEETING OF THE 

 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



The National Academy of Sciences cele- 

 brated the semi-centennial anniversary of its 

 foundation on April 22, 23 and 24, exactly 

 fifty years after its first meeting. It was a 

 most successful meeting with the largest at- 

 tendance of members in the history of the 

 academy. There was no program of technical 

 papers, but in its place a series of addresses. 

 Dr. Ira Eemsen, the president of the academy, 

 at the first session read an address on the 

 history of the academy, and then introduced 

 President Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale Univer- 

 sity, who spoke on " The Relation of Science 

 to Higher Education in America." He was 

 followed by Dr. Arthur Schuster, secretary of 

 the Royal Society of London, who spoke on 

 " International Cooperation in Research." 

 At the afternoon session Dr. George E. Hale, 

 director of the Mt. "Wilson Solar Observatory, 

 gave an address on " The Earth and Sun 

 as Magnets." On the morning of the follow- 

 ing day. Dr. J. C. Kapteyn, director of the 

 Astronomical laboratory of the University of 

 Groningen, gave an address on " The Struc- 

 ture of the Universe." Dr. Theodor H. 

 Boverij of the University of Wiirzburg, was 

 to have spoken on " The Material Basis of 

 Heredity," but was unable to be present owing 

 to ill health. 



The program left ample time for social 

 events, which were admirably arranged. 

 Luncheons were provided each day and there 

 were evening receptions at the National Mu- 

 seum and the Carnegie Institution. The 

 afternoon of April 24 was devoted to an ex- 

 cursion to Mt. Vernon on the U. S. S. May- 

 flower. On the afternoon of April 23, there 

 was a reception at the White House, when the 

 President of the United States conferred 

 medals, and afterwards, with Mrs. Wilson, 



