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Coulter, the retiring president of the Botan- 

 ical Society of America, on " Botany as a Na- 

 tional Asset " will be given. 



The American Society of Naturalists will 

 meet on Friday. In the afternoon there will 

 be a symposium on " Biology and National 

 Existence," with papers by Stewart Paton, W. 

 J. Spillman, Vernon L. Kellogg, Jacques Loeb 

 and Edwin G. Conklin. After the dinner at 

 the Hotel Manhattan in the evening Professor 

 Eaymond Pearl, of the Maine Experiment Sta- 

 tion, will give the presidential address. The 

 New York Zoological Society will entertain at 

 the New York Aquarium the members of the 

 Society of Naturalists and related societies on 

 the evening of December 27. The American 

 Eugenics Association will meet on Tuesday, 

 Wednesday and Thursday, the address of the 

 president, Dr. David Fairchild, of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, being on 

 " The Importance of Photographs in Present- 

 ing Eugenic Discoveries." The Eugenics Re- 

 search Association will hold a meeting under 

 the presidency of Dr. Adolf Meyer, of the 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



Section H, Anthropology and Psychology, 

 will refer special papers to the American An- 

 thropological Association and the American 

 Psychological Association. The address of the 

 retiring chairman, Professor Lillien J. Martin, 

 of Stanford University, will be on " Personal- 

 ity as revealed by the Content of Images." 

 The American Anthropological Association, 

 under the presidency of Dr. E. W. Hodge, of 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology, will meet 

 at the American Museum of Natural History, 

 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 

 In affiliation with it will meet the American 

 Folk Lore Society, the address of whose presi- 

 dent, Dr. Robert H. Lowie, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, will be on " Oral 

 Tradition and History." The American Psy- 

 chological Association celebrates the twenty- 

 fifth anniversary of its foundation on the 

 afternoon of Friday. There will be historical 

 papers by G. Stanley Hall, J. McKeen Cattell, 

 Joseph Jastrow and John Dewey. The address 

 of the president, Professor Eaymond Dodge, 

 of Wesleyan University, on ' ' The Laws of 



Relative Fatigue," will be given on Wednes- 

 day evening at Columbia University, followed 

 by a smoker. The annual dinner will be at the 

 Hotel Marseilles. The association will hold a 

 joint session with the section of education on 

 Friday. The American Philosophical Associa- 

 tion will meet at the Union Theological Semi- 

 nary, adjacent to Columbia University, on De- 

 cember 26, 27 and 28. The address of the 

 president will be given by Professor A. O. 

 Lovejoy, Johns Hopkins University. 



Section I, Economic Science, will listen to 

 an address on " Scientific Efficiency and In- 

 dustrial Museums, our Safeguards in Peace 

 and War," by Dr. George F. Kunz, of New 

 York. The programs of the section will be 

 devoted to the metric system, to the national 

 thrift movement, and to the effect of peace on 

 our economical conditions. These sessions will 

 be held at Columbia University. There will 

 be a meeting concerning insurance on Friday 

 afternoon in the Metropolitan Auditorium, 

 Madison Square. 



Section K, Physiology and Experimental 

 Medicine, will meet at the American Museum 

 of Natural History on Friday afternoon. Pro- 

 fessor Frederic P. Gay, of the University of 

 California, will make an address on " Special- 

 ists and Research in Medical Science " and 

 there will be a symposium on " Cancer and its 

 Control," taken part in by Gary N. Calkins, 

 Leo Loeb, J. C. Bloodgood, James Ewing and 

 E. C. Lakeman. This will be a joint meeting 

 with the American Society of Bacteriologists. 

 The Federation of American Societies for Ex- 

 perimental Biology, consisting of the American 

 Physiological Society, the American Society 

 of Biological Chemists, the American Society 

 for Pharmacology and Experimental Thera- 

 peutics, and the American Society for Experi- 

 mental Pathology will meet at the Cornell 

 Medical College on Thursday, Friday and 

 Saturday. There will be dinners on Thursday 

 and Friday evening. The American Associa- 

 tion of Anatomists will hold its meetings on 

 Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, in the anat- 

 omical laboratories of three medical schools 

 of the city, under the presidency of Professor 

 Henry H. Donaldson, of the Wistar Institute. 



