December 1, 1916] 



SCIENCE 



779 



Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the laboratories 

 of the Eockefeller Institute for Medical Ee- 

 search, will give one of the public lectures 

 before the association. 



Section L, Education, will have, as the 

 vice-presidential address, " Some Obstacles to 

 Educational Progress," by Professor Ellwood 

 G. Cubberley, of Stanford University. The 

 section will meet on Wednesday, Thursday and 

 Friday for discussion on educational tests and 

 measurements, research problems and adminis- 

 trative problems. The American Nature 

 Study Society and the School Garden Asso- 

 ciation of America are among the societies 

 meeting with the association. The Society of 

 Sigma Xi will hold its annual convention at 

 Columbia University on the afternoon of Wed- 

 nesday, with its dinner in the evening, at 

 which there will be an address by the presi- 

 dent, Dr. Charles S. Howe, president of the 

 Case School of Applied Science. The Amer- 

 ican Association of University Professors will 

 meet at Columbia University on Friday and 

 Saturday, with a dinner at the Hotel Astor on 

 Friday evening. 



Section M, Agriculture, will meet on Tues- 

 day and Wednesday. The address of the re- 

 tiring vice-president, Dean Eugene Davenport, 

 of the University of Illinois, will be on " The 

 Outlook for Agricultural Science." This ad- 

 dress, which will be delivered on the afternoon 

 of December 27, will be followed by a sympo- 

 sium on the same subject, which will be taken 

 part in by H. J. Wheeler, J. C. Lipman, G. F. 

 Warren and B. Toungblood. 



There will be a scientific exhibit and con- 

 versazione in University Hall, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, on the afternoons of Wednesday, 

 Thursday and Friday, from twelve to six and 

 probably on Wednesday evening from eight to 

 ten. The demonstrations and exhibits before 

 the separate societies will be made as usual, 

 but in addition there will be gathered in one 

 place exhibits showing the more important 

 recent advances in the sciences in so far as 

 they are of general interest. Scientific men 

 will be present from four to six in the after- 

 noon to explain and demonstrate the exhibits. 

 It is hoped that the conversazione will not only 



be a convenient way for scientific men to in- 

 spect the work being done in different sciences, 

 but will also enable them to meet their col- 

 leagues working in other departments. 



Tea will be served by the Columbia Univer- 

 sity Ladies Committee in the Philosophical 

 Building from four to six on the afternoons of 

 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. 

 The Faculty Club of Columbia University will 

 be open to men as a social center at these and 

 at other times. The courtesies of the Chemists' 

 Club (52 East 41st Street) are extended to 

 members (men) for the days of the meeting. 

 The Alumni Clubs of different universities and 

 colleges and the Fraternity Houses, of which 

 there are large numbers in New York City, 

 will doubtless be glad to welcome their alumni. 

 Luncheons may be obtained in the Columbia 

 University Commons, the lunch room of 

 Horace Mann School and the lunch room of 

 Barnard College and in restaurants adjacent 

 to the university. 



The hotel headquarters will be the Hotel 

 Belmont, which allows a discount to members 

 on all rooms. It is situated opposite the Grand 

 Central Station on 42d Street. This is also 

 an express station of the subway by which 

 Columbia University (Broadway and 116th 

 St.) can be reached in about twelve minutes. 

 The cars are marked Broadway or Dyckman 

 Street; Lenox Avenue and Bronx Park cars 

 are to be avoided. . Other hotels have been 

 selected as headquarters for some of the soci- 

 eties and sections. Thus the naturalists have 

 selected the Manhattan; the zoologists the 

 Astor ; the botanists the McAlpin ; the entomol- 

 ogists the Endicott ; the anatomists the Marti- 

 nique and the psychologists the Marseilles. 

 Reservation of rooms should be made well in 

 advance, as New York hotels are often com- 

 pletely full at this season of the year. The 

 dormitories of Columbia University (for a 

 limited number of men) and the dormitories of 

 Barnard College and of Teachers College (for 

 women) will be open for members at a cost of 

 $1 a night. There are numerous boarding and 

 lodging houses in the neighborhood of Colum- 

 bia University which at the time of the meet- 



