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management, by establishing a bureau in the 

 Department of Commerce and Labor, composed of 

 experts, who will make scientific studies and 

 recommendations to Congress, so removing the 

 question from partisan politics. 



Another valuable meeting was the symposium 

 on " Public Health " in McCoy Hall on Thursday 

 afternoon, with addresses by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, 

 of the Bureau of Chemistry, Washington, on " The 

 Nation's Pure Food Problem " ; by Dr. L. O. 

 Howard, on " Tne Economic Loss due to Insects 

 that Carry Disease " ; by Dr. Horace Fletcher, on 

 " Vital Economics " ; by Professor Irving Fisher, 

 of Yale, on " Progress of the Movement for Health 

 Reform " ; and by Dr. Walter Wyman, of Wash- 

 ington, on " Public Health Administration." The 

 very great preventable waste of human life, which 

 is going on around us, was forcibly presented, and 

 recommendations made for our government to take 

 an intelligent and earnest interest in conservation 

 of health as our greatest resource. 



The crowning feature of the week was the Dar- 

 win Centenary Memorial. The entire day, Friday, 

 was devoted to the celebration. The great audi- 

 ence room of McCoy Hall was filled to the doors 

 during the presentation of the papers. The presi- 

 dent of the association, Dr. T. C. Chamberlin, 

 presided and opened the session with an address. 

 Then followed Dr. Edward B. Poulton, of Oxford 

 University, England, who spoke very entertain- 

 ingly of " Fifty Years of Darwinism " ; Professor 

 John M. Coulter, of the University of Chicago, 

 spoke on " The Theory of Natural Selection from 

 the Standpoint of Botany " ; and Professor E. B. 

 Wilson, of Columbia University, discussed " The 

 Cell in Relation to Heredity and Evolution." In 

 the afternoon session Dr. Daniel T. MacDougal, 

 of the Carnegie Institution, told of the " Direct 

 Effect of Environment"; Dr. S. W. E. Castle, of 

 Harvard University, explained " The Behavior of 

 Unit Characters in Heredity"; Dr. Charles B. 

 Davenport gave an account of " Mutation " ; Dr. 

 Carl H. Eigenmann, of Indiana University, dis- 

 cussed " Adaptation " ; Professor Henry F. Osborn, 

 of Columbia University, gave " Recent Paleonto- 

 logical Evidence of Evolution." This series of 

 addresses will be issued as a memorial volume 

 a little later in the year. 



The close of the week's functions was the Dar- 

 win memorial dinner at Lehman's Hall. About 

 300 sat at table, and after the repast the presi- 

 dent of the association, Dr. Chamberlin, presented 

 Professor H. F. Osborn as the toast-master. 

 Professor Osborn gave an interesting reminiscence 

 of his youth, when working in Huxley's labora- 



tory. Darwin visited the place, as the guest of 

 Hxixley, and the young Osborn, being the only 

 American present, was introduced to Darwin. He 

 spoke also of the spirit of Darwin and of Huxley 

 which came to Johns Hopkins with Martin and 

 with Brooks, both now gone. Professor Wm. H. 

 Welch was then introduced and spoke of "The 

 Debt of Medicine to Darwin " ; Dr. Albreeht 

 Penck, of the University of Berlin, spoke on " The 

 Geographical Factor in Evolution," and Professor 

 Edward B. Poulton, of Oxford, gave a lively and 

 entertaining talk on " The Personality of Darwin." 

 Then Professor Chamberlin closed the meeting 

 with words of thanks and praise for those in 

 Baltimore who so splendidly entertained the asso- 

 ciation. 



At the final general meeting on Friday morn- 

 ing a resolution, introduced by Mr. Edward W. 

 Morley, was passed, as follows: 



Resolved, That the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science sincerely thanks the 

 Johns Hopkins University and the other institu- 

 tions of the city and also the citizens of Baltimore, 

 for their generous hospitality during our meeting. 



At the meeting of the general committee it was 

 voted to hold the next meeting during convocation 

 week, 1909-10, at Boston, and recommendations 

 to following councils favoring successive annual 

 meetings at Minneapolis, Washington, Cleveland 

 and Toronto. It was voted that a summer session 

 in 1910 at Honolulu would be desirable if suitable 

 arrangements can be made. 



Officers were elected as follows: President, Dr. 

 David btarr Jordan, of Leland Stanford Univer- 

 sity; General Secretary, Professor Dayton C. 

 Miller, Case Scientific School, Cleveland; Secre- 

 tary of Council, Dr. F. G. Benedict, of the Car- 

 negie Institution; Secretary of Section H, Pro- 

 fessor George Grant McCurdy, of Yale University; 

 Secretary of Section K, Dr. G. T. Kemp. Vice- 

 presidents of the various sections were elected as 

 follows: Section A, Professor E. W. Brown, of 

 Yale University; Section B, Dr. L. A. Bauer, of 

 the Carnegie Institution; Section C, Professor 

 Wm. McPherson, of Ohio State University; Sec- 

 tion D, Mr. J. F. Hayford, of the U. S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, Washington; Section E, Dr. R. 

 W. Brock, director of the Canadian Geological 

 Survey; Section F, Professor W. E. Ritter, Uni- 

 versity of California; Section G, Professor D..P. 

 Penhallow, McGill University, Canada; Section H, 

 Professor Wm. H. Holmes, chief of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology, Washington; Section I, Dr. Carroll D. 

 Wright, of Clark College; Section K, Professor 

 C. S. Minot, Harvard University; Section L, Dr. 



