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SCIENCE 



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and ■will alternate with the sessions of the 

 Botanical Society of America, as at the Chi- 

 cago meeting. The address of the retiring 

 vice-president. Dr. C. E. Bessey, will be on 

 " The Phyletic Idea in Taxonomy." 



Section L — Education — will hold five ses- 

 sions, three independent sessions and two joint 

 sessions. The topics and speakers for the in- 

 dependent sessions are: 1. The Relation of 

 the Bureau of Education to the Other Educa- 

 tional Work of the Country, President Harry 

 Pratt Judson, Pi-ofessor Edward C. Elliott, 

 Superintendent E. C. Moore. 2. American 

 College Education and Life, Professors Josiah 

 Eoyce, Wm. North Eice, President Wm. L. 

 Bryan and others. 3. The Relation of Gov- 

 ernments to Education (address of the retir- 

 ing vice-president), Hon. E. E. Brown, U. S. 

 Commissioner of Education. The first of 

 these sessions will be held on Tuesday, De- 

 cember 29, at 2 P.M.; the second on Wednes- 

 day, December 30, at 2 p.m., and the third on 

 Thursday, December 31, at 3 p.m. 



One of the joint sessions will be held on 

 Tuesday, December 29, at 10 a.m. with the 

 American Federation of Teachers of the Math- 

 ematical and the Natural Sciences at which 

 the topic: The Problems of Science Teach- 

 ing will be discussed by Presidents E. S. 

 Woodward and Ira Remsen, and Professors 

 John M. Coulter, N. M. Fennemann, George 

 F. Stradling and William T. Campbell. The 

 other joint session will be held on Wednesday, 

 December 30, at 10 a.m., with the American 

 Psychological Association, at which meeting 

 reports of experimental work in educational 

 psychology will be presented and discussed by 

 a number of investigators in this field. 



T3E ANNUAL DUES OF MEMBERS OF THE 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



The permanent secretary of the American 

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 begs to call the attention of members to the 

 fact that the annual dues (three dollars) for 

 the year beginning January the first should 

 now be sent to him. The financial year of 

 the association now ends on October 31, and 



the dues for the following calendar year 

 should be paid as soon as possible after that 

 date. The dues are so small and the member- 

 ship of the association has become so large 

 that the sending of statements involves an 

 expenditure of time and money, which, so far 

 as possible, should be saved. The office of the 

 permanent secretary must be removed to the 

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 week in December, and the dues should be 

 paid prior to that time. If they are not paid 

 before January 1, there are serious complica- 

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The permanent secretary takes this occasion 

 to remind members of the desirability of as- 

 suming life membership in the association. 

 By the payment of fifty dollars at the present 

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 The fees of life members are ultimately trans- 

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L. O. Howard, 



Washington, D. C. Permanent Secretary 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 It is announced that the Nobel prizes for 

 1908 are to be awarded as follows : For chem- 

 istry. Professor Ernest Rutherford, director of 

 the physical laboratories of the University of 

 Manchester, England; for literature, Algernon 

 Charles Swinburne; for physics. Dr. Max 



