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SCIENCE 



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The Geological Society of America. — December 

 29, 31. President, Professor Samuel Calvin, Uni- 

 versity of lovi'a; secretary, Dr. E. 0. Hovey, 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York 

 City. 



The Association of American Geographers. — 

 January 1, 2. President, Dr. G. K. Gilbert, U. S. 

 Geological Survey; secretary. Professor Albert P. 

 Brigham, Colgate University, Hamilton, N. Y. 



The American Society of Vertebrate Paleontolo- 

 gists. — December 28-30. President, Professor 

 Richard Swan Lull, Yale University; secretary. 

 Dr. W. D. Matthew, American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, New York City. 



The American Society of Biological Chemists. — 

 December 28-30. President, Professor John J. 

 Abel, The Johns Hopkins University; secretary. 

 Professor William J. Gies, 437 West 59th St., 

 New York City. 



The American Physiological Society. — December 

 29-31. President, Professor W. H. Howell, Johns 

 Hopkins University; secretary. Dr. Reid Hunt, 

 Hygienic Laboratory, 25th and E Sts., N. W., 

 Washington, D. C. 



The Association of Amerioa/n Anatomists. — ^De- 

 cember 29-31. President, Professor J. Playfair 

 McMurrich, University of Toronto; secretary, 

 Professor G. Carl Huber, 1330 Hill St., Ann 

 Ai-bor, Mich. 



The Society of American Bacteriologists. — De- 

 cember 28-January 2. Vice-president, Professor 

 H. L. Russell, University of Wisconsin; secretary, 

 Dr. Norman MacL. Harris, University of Chicago, 

 Chicago, 111. 



The Americwti Society of Zoologists. — Eastern 

 Branch, December 29-31. President, Professor 

 William Morton Wheeler, Harvard University; 

 secretary. Dr. Lorande Loss Woodruff, Yale Uni- 

 versity, New Haven, Conn. Central Branch, De- 

 cember 28-30. President, Professor E. A. Birge, 

 University of Wisconsin; acting secretary. Pro- 

 fessor Thomas G. Lee, University of Minnesota, 

 Minneapolis, Minn. 



The Entomological Society of America. — De- 

 cember 29, 30. President, Professor W. M. 

 Wheeler, Harvard University; secretary, J. 

 Chester Bradley, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The Association of Economic Entomologists. — 

 December 28, 29. President, Professor S. A. 

 Forbes, University of Illinois; secretary, A. F. 

 Burgess, Washington, D. C. 



The Botanical Society of America. — ^December 

 29-31. President, Professor W. F. Ganong, Smith 

 College, Northampton, Mass.; secretary. Professor 



D. S. Johnson, Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 

 more, Md. 



American "Nature Study Society. — December 30, 

 31. President, Professor L. H. Bailey, Cornell 

 University; secretary. Professor M. A. Bigelow, 

 Teachers College, Columbia University, New York 

 City. 



Sullivant Moss Chapter. — President, Dr. T. 

 C. Frye, Seattle, Wash.; secretary, Mr. N. L. T. 

 Nelson, St. Louis, Mo. Address: Mrs. Annie Mor- 

 rill Smith, 78 Orange St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Wild Flower Preservation Society. — President, 

 Professor Chas. E. Bessey; secretary. Dr. Charles 

 Louis Pollard, New Brighton, N. Y. 



The American Psychological Association. — ^De- 

 cember 29-31. President, Professor G. M. Strat- 

 ton. University of California; secretary. Professor 

 A. H. Pierce, Smith College, Northampton, Mass. 



The American Philosophical Association. — De- 

 cember 29-31. President, Professor Hugo Mlinster- 

 berg. Harvard University; secretary. Professor 

 Frank Thilly, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychol- 

 ogy. — Convocation week. President, Professor J. 

 MacBride Sterrett, The George Washington Uni- 

 versity; secretary. Professor Edward Franklin 

 Buchner, The Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 

 more, Md. 



Th^ American Anthropological Association. — 

 December 28-January 2. President, Professor 

 Franz Boas, Columbia University; secretary. Dr. 

 Geo. Grant MacCurdy, Yale University, New 

 Haven, Conn. 



The American Folk-lore Society. — Week of De- 

 cember 28. President, Professor Roland B. Dixon, 

 Harvard University; secretary. Dr. Alfred M. 

 Tozzer, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



THE AMERICAN MINING CONGRESS 



The eleventh annual session of the Amer- 

 ican Mining Congress meeting this week at 

 Pittsburgh, Pa., has the following preliminary 

 program : 



Addresses of welcome and responses. 



Report of Committee on Alaskan Mining Laws, 

 Hon. James J. Godfrey, Seattle, Wash. 



Report of Committee on Vertical Side Line Law, 

 Dr. John A. Church, New York City. 



Report of Committee on Prevention of Mine 

 Accidents, Dr. H. Foster Bain, Urbana, 111. 



Report of Committee on Protection Against 

 Mining Frauds, Mr. C. J. Downey, Denver, Colo. 



Report of Committee on General Revision of 



