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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLVII. No. 1202 



Society, The School Garden Association of Amer- 

 ica, Society of American Foresters, Society of the 

 Sigma Xi, Gamma Alpha Graduate Scientific Fra- 

 ternity, Phi Kappa Phi Fraternity. 



The local arrangements for the meeting had 

 been made in a very efficient manner by the local 

 committee, of which Dr. W. J. Holland, of the 

 Carnegie Museum, was chairman, and Dr. S. B. 

 linhart, of the "University of Pittsburgh, was sec- 

 retary. All the meetings were held in the build- 

 ings of the University of Pittsburgh, The Carnegie 

 Institute of Technology and the Carnegie Institute. 



The council of the association took action as 

 follows : 



1. Resolved that the revision of the constitution 

 be not pushed at this time— a report published. 



2. Sesolved that the dues of those members in 

 active service in the army and navy be remitted 

 for the period of the war when the member in 

 question makes specific request in his own case. 



3. Resolved that the editorial control of the 

 journal Science be placed in the charge of an 

 editorial committee to be named by the committee 

 on policy. 



4. Resolved that the necessary arrangements 

 can be made at the Post Office Department so that 

 the journal may be sent to the front in Europe by 

 members who desire to do so. 



5. Messrs. H. B. Ward, H. C. Cowles and Stew- 

 art Paton were elected members of the council. 



6. The following were made life members emeri- 

 tus under the terms of the Jane M. Smith Fund: 

 C. H. Fernald, E. H. Eichards, Marshall Calkins 

 and T. J. W. Burgess. 



7. Two hundred and seventy-eight fellows were 

 elected from the nominations by especially ap- 

 pointed representatives of the sections who have 

 scrutinized the manuscript list at Washington. 



8. Resolved that until the next annual meeting, 

 all business of the association be referred to the 

 Committee on Policy with power to act. 



9. Resolved that the president of the association 

 be requested to appoint a committee of five fellows 

 to cooperate with a similar committee of the As- 

 sociation of University Professors, and with other 

 similar associations in the consideration of meth- 

 ods for the publication in this country of bibliog- 

 raphies progress-reports and abstracts. 



10. On motion, the council instructed the perma- 

 nent secretary to carry into effect the following 

 points at future annual meetings: (o) The meet- 

 ing places for sections and societies having been 

 once printed, should not be changed. (6) Meeting 

 places for allied interests and societies should be 

 placed as close together as possible, (c) The en- 

 tire number of meeting places should be grouped 

 as closely as possible, (d) Authorizing the print- 

 ing of detailed advice to Local Committee for 

 individual distribution to members of such com- 

 mittee. 



11. Messrs. Stewart Paton, H. L. Fairchild and 

 H. B. Ward were elected members of the com- 

 mittee on policy. 



12. The permanent secretary was granted the 



authority to purchase a new electric addressograph 

 for his office. 



13. The salary of the assistant secretary, Mr. F. 

 S. Hazard, was raised to $2,100 per annum, be- 

 ginning with January 1, 1918. 



14. The council endorsed the following resolu- 

 tion coming from Section F: "It is important 

 that in any plans formulated or encouraged by the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence looking towards the organization and devel- 

 opment of national or international bibliographic 

 projects, the existing international bibliographic 

 undertaking for zoology, i. e., the Concilium BibUo- 

 graphicum in Zurich, long approved by this asso- 

 ciation and in part supported by numerous grants 

 from its funds, be kept definitely in mind and in- 

 cluded in any plan for bibliographic work pre- 

 sented for consideration by the special committee 

 of the council." 



At the meeting of the general committee at the 

 Sehenley Hotel on the night of December 31, it was 

 decided to hold the next meeting of the associa- 

 tion in Boston, Massachusetts, meeting to begin 

 on Friday, December 27, 1918. This decision was 

 adopted vrith the amendment that the committee 

 on policy be given the power to cancel the meet- 

 ing, or to change the place for it should they see 

 best to do so. On motion the general committee 

 recommended to the general committee of 1918 that 

 St. Louis be chosen for the place of meeting fol- 

 lowing Boston. 



The following officers were elected. President, 

 John M. Coulter, of the University of Chicago; 

 Vice-presidents as follows: 



Section A, George D. BurkhofE, Harvard Univer- 

 sity; 



B, Gordon T. Hull, Dartmouth College; 



C, Alexander Smith, Columbia University; 



D, Ira N. HolUs, Worcester Polytechnic 

 Institute ; 



E, David White, U. S. Geological Survey, 

 Washington, D. C. ; 



F, Wm. Patten, Dartmouth College; 



G, A. F. Blakeslee, Cold Spring Harbor; 

 H, (no election) ; 



I, John Barrett, Washington; 



K, Frederic S. Lee, Columbia University; 



L, S. A. Courtis, Detroit, Mich.; 



M, H. P. Armsby, Pennsylvania State 

 College. 

 O. E. Jennings, of the Carnegie Museum, Pitts- 

 burgh, was elected general secretary for 1918. 

 The following secretaries of sections were then 

 elected : 

 Section A, F. E. Moulton, University of Chicago; 



C, Arthur A. Blanchard, Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology; 



D, F. L. Bishop, University of Pittsburgh; 



F, H. V. Neal, Tufts College; 



G, Mel. T. Cook, Eutgers College; 

 H, E. K. Strong, Jr., Washington; 



L, B. T. Baldwin, Swarthmore CoUege. 

 L. O. Howard, 

 Permanent Secretary 



