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evidence for an opinion is a reason for believing 

 something else.' 



May the Johns Hopkins University 

 treasure as ever living the example of 

 Brooks, the naturalist— one of the two 

 members of her illustrious faculty of whom 

 their great leader, Gilman, said they pre- 

 eminently were "men born for lives of 

 research." E. A. Andrews 



November 26, 1908 



THE CONVOCATION WEEK MEETINGS OF 

 SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 

 The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and the national scientific 

 societies named below will meet at the Johns 

 Hopkins University, at Baltimore, during con- 

 vocation week, beginning on December 28, 

 1908. 



American, Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. — Retiring president, Professor E. L. 

 Nicbols, Cornell University; president-elect. Pro- 

 fessor T. C. Chamberlin, University of Chicago; 

 permanent secretary. Dr. L. 0. Howard, Cosmos 

 Club, Washington, D. C; general secretary. 

 Dr. J. Paul Goode, University of Chicago. 



Local Executive Committee. — William H. 

 Welch, M.D., chairman local committee; Henry 

 Barton Jacobs, M.D., chairman executive com- 

 mittee; William J. A. Bliss, secretary, Joseph S. 

 Ames, William B. Clark, R. Brent Keyser, Eugene 

 A. Noble, Ira Remsen, John E. Semmes, Francis 

 A. Soper, Hugh H. Young. 



Section A, Mathematics and Astronomy. — ^Vice- 

 president, C. J. Keyser, Columbia University; 

 secretary, Professor G. A. Miller, University of 

 Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. 



Section B, Physics. — ^Vice-president, Professor 

 Carl E. Guthe, State University of Iowa; secre- 

 tary. Professor A. D. Cole, Vassar College, Pough- 

 keepsie, N. Y. 



Section C, Chemistry. — Vice-president, Professor 

 Louis Kahlenberg, University of Wisconsin; sec- 

 retary, C. H. Herty, University of North Carolina, 

 Chapel Hill, N. C. 



Section D, Mechanical Science and Engineering. 

 — Vice-president, Professor Geo. F. Swain, Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology; secretary, G. W. 

 Bissell, Michigan Agricultural College, East Lan- 

 sing, Mich. 



' " Science or Poetry," 1895. 



Section E, Geology and Geography. — ^Vice-presi- 

 dent, Bailey Willis, U. S. Geological Survey; 

 secretary, F. P. Gulliver, Norwich, Conn. 



Section F, Zoology. — ^Vice-president, Professor 

 C. Judson Herrick, University of Chicago; secre- 

 tary. Professor Morris A. Bigelow, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York City. 



Section G, Botany. — ^Vice-president, Professor 

 H. M. Richards, Columbia University; secretary, 

 Professor H. C. Cowles, University of Chicago, 

 Chicago, 111. 



Section H, Anthropology. — ^Vice-president, Pro- 

 fessor R. S. Woodworth, Columbia University; 

 secretary, George H. Pepper, American Musexmi 

 of Natural History, New York City. 



Section I, Social and Economic Science. — Vice- 

 president, Professor G. Sumner, Yale University; 

 secretary. Professor J. P. Norton, Yale University, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



Section K, Physiology and Experimental Medi- 

 cine. — Vice-president, Professor Wm. H. Howell, 

 Johns Hopkins University; secretary. Dr. Wm. J. 

 Gies, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia 

 University, New York City. 



Section L, Education. — Vice-president, Professor 

 John Dewey, Columbia University; secretary. 

 Professor C. R. Mann, University of Chicago. 

 Chicago, 111. 



The American Society of Naturalists. — Decem 

 ber 31. President, Professor D. P. Penhallow, 

 McGill University; secretary. Dr. H. McE, 

 Knower, The Johns Hopkins Medical School, Bal 

 timore, Md. Central Branch. President, Professor 

 R. A. Harper, University of Wisconsin; secretary. 

 Professor Thomas G. Lee, University of Minnesota, 

 Minneapolis, Minn. 



The American Mathematical Society. — ^December 

 30, 31. President, Professor H. S. White, Vassar 

 College; secretary. Professor F. N. Cole, 501 West 

 116th St., New York City. 



American Federation of Teachers of the Mathe- 

 matical amd Natural Sciences. — December 28, 29. 

 President, H. W. Tyler, Boston, Mass.; secretary. 

 Professor C. R. Mann, University of Chicago, 

 Chicago, 111. 



The American Physical Society. — President, 

 Professor E. L. Nichols, Cornell University; sec- 

 retary. Professor Ernest Merritt, Cornell Univer- 

 sity, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The American, Chemical Society. — ^December 29- 

 January 1. President, Professor Marston T. Bo- 

 gert, Columbia University; secretary. Professor 

 Charles L. Parsons, New Hampshire College, Dur- 

 ham, N. H. 



