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The important subject of cartography was also 

 well represented. The ofBcers for the ensuing 

 year are: 



President — W. M. Davis. 



First Vice-president — ^L. A. Bauer. 



Second Vice-president — E. R. Johnson. 



Secretary — A. P. Brigham. 



Treasurer — N. M. Fenneman. 



Gounoilors — Cyrus C. Adams, R. S. Tarr and 

 R. E. Dodge. 



The place of the next meeting will be fixed by 

 the council. 



The following is a list of papers presented: 



"Man, Soil and Climate" (public lecture), by 

 Albrecht Penck. 



"Earthquake Forecasts" (president's address), 

 by G. K. Gilbert. 



"Round Table Conference on Secondary Geog- 

 raphy," by R. E. Dodge. 



" Accumulation of Inherited Features in Shore- 

 lines of Evolution," by J. W. Goldthwaite. 



" On the Elements of the Surface Sculptured 

 by Glaciers," by W. H. Hobbs. 



" Existing Glaciers of the Northern Hemi- 

 sphere," by 0. D. Von Engeln. 



" The Topographic A B C of Land Form," by 

 F. E. Matthes. 



"How May the Teaching of Geography in Ele- 

 mentary Schools be Improved?" by C. T. Mc- 

 Farlane. 



"Apparatus for Instruction in the Interpreta- 

 tion of Maps," by W. H. Hobbs. 



" Some Practical Results of the Ninth Interna- 

 tional Geographical Congress," by H. G. Bryant. 



" Three Gatherings of Geographic Interest," by 

 A. P. Brigham. 



" Status of the Magnetic Survey of the Earth," 

 by L. A. Bauer. 



"A Reconnaissance in the Arctic Slope of 

 Alaska," by E. D. Leffingwell. 



" The Climate of Cuba," by H. Gannett. 



"The Temperature at Great Heights above the 

 American Continent," by A. L. Rotch. 



"The Climate of the Historic Past," by B. 

 Huntington. 



" Origin of Civilization through Intermittency 

 of Climatic Factors," by J. R. Smith. 



" The National Forest Policy," by H. A. Smith. 



" Some Results of the Recent Census in Cuba," 

 by H. Gannett. 



" The Anthropography of Some Great Cities," 

 by Mark Jeiferson. 



" The Capacity of the United States for Pop- 

 ulation," by A. P. Brigham. 



" Geographical and other Influences affecting 



the Pottery Industry of Trenton, N. J.," by R. 

 H. Whitbeck. 



" Geographical Influences in the Development of 

 Ohio," by F. Carney. 



" Trade Routes in the Economic Geography of 

 Bolivia," by I. Bowman. 



" The Influence of the Precious Metals on Amer- 

 ican Exploration, Discovery, Conquest and Pos- 

 session," by G. D. Hubbard. 



" The Stream Robbery on which the Belle 

 Pourche Reclamation Project is Based," by N. 

 H. Darton. 



"A Remarkable Glacial River and its Modern 

 Representative," by F. Taylor. 



" Delta Form and Structure of the Thames 

 River Terraces, Connecticut," by F. P. Gulliver. 



" The Requisites of a School Wall Map," by 

 J. P. Goode. A. P. Beigham, 



Secretary 



THE SOCIETY FOB HORTICULTURAL 

 SCIENCE 



At a business meeting of the society held in 

 Baltimore, December 31, 1908, several important 

 questions were discussed. The committee ap- 

 pointed at the Jamestown meeting to interview 

 the Secretary of Agriculture with reference to 

 having the annual reports of the society published 

 by the Department of Agriculture reported that 

 they had iaterviewed Dr. B. T. Galloway, who 

 represented the Secretary of Agriculture in this 

 matter, and that it was almost certain that the 

 department would publish the reports, provided 

 the following amendments were adopted by the 

 society : 



" That the association shall be known as the 

 American Association of Official Horticulturists, 

 the object of which is to promote the science of 

 horticulture, and that any person connected with 

 a state or federal experiment station or with the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture or its territorial 

 stations, or with any other institution in the 

 United States or Canada, who is engaged in the 

 teaching of horticulture, or in experiments bearing 

 upon it, may become a member of the association 

 and shall be entitled to vote on the conditions 

 which are embodied in the present constitution. 

 Furthermore, that all horticulturists in the United 

 States and in Canada, or in any other country 

 engaged in the teaching or investigation of hor- 

 ticulture, may become associate members of the 

 association under the same conditions that govern 

 the admission of members and shall have all the 

 privileges of members except the right to vote and 

 hold office." 



