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Association op Official Seed Analysts. — Will 

 meet on dates to be announced. Secretary, John P. 

 Helyar, New Brunswick, N. J. 



Society of American Foresters. — Meets on 

 Friday, December 29. President, Dr. B. E. Fer- 

 now, University of Toronto; secretary, C. R. Til- 

 lotson, U. S. Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 



Mid-west Forestry Association. — President, 

 Fred W. Smith, State School of Forestry, Bot- 

 tineau, N. Dak. 



American Microscopical Society. — Business 

 sessions. President, Professor M. F. Guyer, Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin; secretary, Professor T. W. 

 Galloway, Beloit College, Beloit, Wis. 



American Anthropological Association. — De- 

 cember 26 to 29. President, Dr. F. W. Hodge, Bu- 

 reau of American Ethnology; secretary, Professor 

 George G. MaeCurdy, Yale University Museum, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



American Folk-Lore Society. — December 27. 

 President, Dr. R. H. Lowie, American Museum of 

 Natural History; secretary, Charles Peabody, Har- 

 vard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



American Psychological Association. — De- 

 cember 27 to 30. President, Professor Raymond 

 Dodge, Wesleyan University; secretary, Professor 

 R. M. Ogden, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



American Philosophical Association. — De- 

 cember 27, 28 and 29. President, Professor A. O. 

 Lovejoy, The Johns Hopkins University; secretary, 

 Professor E. G. Spaulding, Princeton University, 

 Princeton, N. J. 



American Society of Bacteriologists. — De- 

 cember 29. Secretary, A. P. Hitchens, Glen 

 Olden, Pa. 



American Association of Anatomists. — De- 

 cember 27, 28 and 29. President, Dr. H. H. Don- 

 aldson, Wistar Institute of Anatomy; secretary, 

 Professor C. R. Stockard, Cornell Medical School, 

 New York, N. Y. 



American Physiological Society. — December 

 27, 28, 29 and 30. President, Professor W. B. 

 Cannon, Harvard Medical School; secretary, Pro- 

 fessor Charles W. Greene, University of Missouri, 

 Columbia, Mo. 



American Society of Biological Chemists. — 

 December 27, 28 and 29. President, Professor 

 Walter Jones, The Johns Hopkins University; 

 secretary, Dr. Stanley R. Benedict, Cornell Medical 

 College, New York, N. Y. 



American Society for Pharmacology and Ex- 

 perimental Therapeutics. — December 28, 29 and 



30. President, Professor Reid Hunt, Harvard 

 Medical School; secretary, Dr. John Auer, Rocke- 

 feller Institute, New York, N. Y. 



American Society for Experimental Pathol- 

 ogy. — December 28, 29 and 30. President, Simon 

 Flexner, The Rockefeller Institute; secretary, Dr. 

 Peyton Rous, Rockefeller Institute, New York, 

 N. Y. 



(The above four societies compose the Federa- 

 tion of American Societies for Experimental Biol- 

 ogy. Executive Secretary, Dr. Peyton Sous.) 



American Nature-Study Society. — December 

 27. President, Professor L. H. Bailey, Ithaca, N. 

 Y.; secretary, E. R. Downing, University of Chi- 

 cago, Chicago, 111. 



School Garden Association of America. — De- 

 cember 29 and 30. President, Van Evrie Kilpat- 

 rick, 124 West 30th St., New York, N. Y. 



Gamma Alpha Graduates Scientific Frater- 

 nity. — Will meet on dates to be announced. Presi- 

 dent, Professor W. J. Meek, University of Wiscon- 

 sin; recorder, L. C. Johnson, 2018 Madison St., 

 Madison, Wis. 



Society of the Sigma Xi. — December 27. Pres- 

 ident, Dr. Charles S. Howe, Case School of Applied 

 Science; secretary, Professor Henry B. Ward, Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



American Association of University Pro- 

 fessors. — December 29 and 30. President, Dr. 

 John H. Wigmore, Northwestern University; sec- 

 retary, Dr. H. W. Tyler, Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology. 



MEETINGS OF SECTIONS OF THE 

 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



As already announced, there will be a sym- 

 posium " On the Structure of Matter " in a 

 joint meeting of Sections B and C of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, the American Chemical Society, 

 and the American Physical Society, on Wed- 

 nesday, December 27, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., in 

 Room 309, Havemeyer Hall, Columbia Uni- 

 versity. The topics and speakers, arranged 

 for to date, follow: 



' ' Radiation and Atomic Structure, ' ' by Robt. 

 A. Millikan. (The address of the president of the 

 American Physical Society.) 



