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part of the programs of the association and of 

 the national societies. The meeting promises 

 to be of unusual interest; there is reason to 

 believe that the attendance and the value of 

 the scientific programs will not be exceeded 

 by any of the preceding convocation week 

 meetings. 



For the convenience of members of the 

 special societies, it may be noted here that the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science expects to meet next year at Boston. 

 There will be no summer meeting, but the 

 British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science has invited members of the American 

 Association to take part in the meeting to be 

 held in Winnipeg at the end of August. 

 Plans have been proposed for a summer meet- 

 ing in the Hawaiian Islands in the summer 

 of 1911, with a possible meeting on the Pacific 

 Coast, and it would be advisable for any socie- 

 ties or individuals who might like to take part 

 in such a meeting to communicate with the 

 permanent secretary of the American Associa- 

 tion. After two meetings on the Atlantic sea- 

 board, the association and the affiliated socie- 

 ties would exiDect to meet in the central states 

 in convocation week of 1910-11. At the Chi- 

 cago meeting a cordial invitation was pre- 

 sented to meet in Minneapolis on the earliest 

 available occasion. The place of meeting will 

 be recommended by the nominating committee 

 at Baltimore, and invitations and suggestions 

 should be communicated to the permanent 

 secretary of the American Association or to 

 the secretaries of the afiiliated societies. 



At a meeting of plant pathologists held at 

 Washington, D. C, December 15, 1908, and 

 after consultation with several experiment 

 station pathologists, it was unanimously de- 

 cided that an effort should be made to organize 

 an American pathological society. A com- 

 mittee consisting of the following members, 

 C. L. Shear, Donald Eeddick and W. A. Orton, 

 was appointed to arrange for a preliminary 

 meeting in connection with the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 at Baltimore. Invitations have been issued 

 to plant pathologists to meet December 30, 

 1908, at an hour and place to be announced 



later and take part in the organization of the 

 proposed society which, it is believed, can 

 exercise great influence in advancing the 

 study of phytopathology in America. 



The tenth annual meeting of the Society of 

 American Bacteriologists will be held in the 

 rooms of the pathological laboratory of the 

 Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, on 

 December 29, 30 and 31, in affiliation with the 

 American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. The program will be arranged to 

 permit of joint meetings with Sections K and 

 I of the association and the American Health 

 League on the above dates, where subjects of 

 interest to the members of the society will be 

 under discussion. 



The Botanical Society of America will hold 

 its fifteenth annual meeting, in conjunction 

 with the American Association, at Baltimore, 

 on December 28, 29 and 30, under the presi- 

 dency of William F. Ganong. The scientific 

 sessions will be held at the Eastern High 

 School in alternation with those of Section G 

 of the association. The address of the past- 

 president. Professor G. F. Atkinson, will be 

 given on Tuesday, December 28, at eight p.m., 

 in McCoy Hall. After the address members 

 and visiting botanists will be invited to re- 

 main to meet Professor Atkinson and the 

 officers of the society. On Wednesday evening 

 there will be a dinner for botanists at Hotel 

 Caswell. The special features of the scientific 

 program for the Baltimore meeting will be 

 addresses by Professor Eoland Thaxter and 

 Professor J. C. Bose; symposia on "Progress 

 in the Study of Vascular Anatomy of Higher 

 Plants," on Tuesday morning, and on "Pres- 

 ent Problems in Plant Ecology" on Wednes- 

 day afternoon; a Darwin memorial session on 

 Thursday afternoon. The symposia are ar- 

 ranged in acciordance with the desire generally 

 expressed at the Chicago meeting, that more 

 time be given in the programs of the Botanical 

 Society of America to synthetic papers given 

 by leading workers, upon invitation by the 

 council. The Darwin memorial session will 

 be devoted to a series of addresses giving esti- 

 mates of Darwin's service to botany in the 

 several fields in which he worked. It is in- 



