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Professor Mason's illness dated from 1898, 

 when he was stricken with hemiplegia. From 

 this, he was slowly but steadily recovering 

 until the summer of this year, when his health 

 commenced again to fail. As late as the 17th 

 of October, he was still attending to his 

 duties in the National Museum, but from that 

 day on he rapidly failed, until the fatal termi- 

 nation. 



His name, cherished by all those who knew 

 him personally, will range in the history of 

 anthropology side by side with those of Powell, 

 Brinton and Gallatin. AiES Hedlicka 



THE GONVOCATIOW WEEK MEETING OF 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR 



THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



AND AFFILIATED SOCIETIES 



The preliminary announcement of the six- 

 tieth meeting of the American Association to 

 be held in Baltimore from December 28, 1908, 

 to January 2, 1909, has now been issued by 

 the permanent secretary. The first general 

 session of the association will be held at 10 

 o'clock on the morning of December 28, in 

 McCoy Hall, the Johns Hopkins University. 

 The meeting will be called to order by the 

 retiring president. Professor E. L. Nichols, 

 who will introduce the president of the meet- 

 ing. Professor T. C. Chamberlin. Addresses 

 of welcome will be delivered by Dr. Ira Eem- 

 sen, president of the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, and by Dr. Wm. H. Welch, chairman of 

 the local committee for the meeting, and 

 President Chamberlin will reply. 



Most of the sections of the association and 

 of the affiliated societies will meet at the 

 Johns Hopkins University or the Baltimore 

 City College or Baltimore Medical College 

 adjoining, or else at the Johns Hopkins Med- 

 ical School. The School Board of Baltimore 

 City, the Baltimore "Woman's College, the 

 Bryn Mawr Preparatory School and the Mary- 

 land Academy of Sciences have placed other 

 rooms at the disposal of the committee. 



At 8 o'clock P.M., on Monday, the retiring 

 president will give his address in McCoy Hall. 

 At the close of the address a reception will be 

 tendered by President Eemsen and the board 

 of trustees of the Johns Hopkins University. 



On the afternoons of Tuesday, Wednesday 

 and Thursday the addresses of the vice-presi- 

 dents will be given. They are as follows: 

 E. O. Lovett, Princeton; D. C. Miller, Cleve- 

 land; H. P. Talbot, Boston; O. H. Landreth, 

 Schenectady; J. P. Iddings, Chicago; E. B. 

 Wilson, New York; C. E. Bessey, Lincoln; 

 Eranz Boas, New York; J. F. CroweU, New 

 York; Ludvig Hektoen, Chicago; Elmer Ells- 

 worth Brown, Washington. 



On these and the following days the sections 

 and societies will hold their regular sessions. 

 It is expected that there will be joint meetings 

 when the same subjects are covered, and that 

 some meetings will be arranged for of general 

 interest to all members of the association. 

 No definite arrangements are announced for 

 the general evening functions after Monday 

 night. Dinners and meetings of special socie- 

 ties and groups, smokers and informal meet- 

 ings, may be arranged. 



On Thursday, December 31, a meeting of 

 the American Health League will be called in 

 conjimction with Section I, and a symposium 

 on "Public Health" wiU be held. 



On Friday, January 1, there will be held a 

 celebration of the one hundredth anniversary 

 of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the 

 fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the 

 " Origin of Species." This will consist of a 

 morning and afternoon program of addresses 

 by prominent naturalists, to be followed by a 

 dinner at night at which further addresses 

 will be made. 



A railroad rate of one fare and three fifths 

 for the roxind trip, on the certificate plan, has 

 been granted by the Trunk Line Association, 

 the New England Passenger Association (ex- 

 cepting via N. Y., Ont. and W. Ey., the 

 Eastern Steamship Company and the Bangor 

 and Aroostook E. E.), the Eastern Canadian 

 Passenger Association and the Central Pas- 

 senger Association. The Western Association 

 has on sale revised one-way fares in effect to 

 Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis, with the under- 

 standing that persons can repurchase from 

 these points and take advantage of any re- 

 duced fares that may be authorized therefrom. 

 The fares to Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis 



