JANUARY 5, 1912] 
association. The resignations of N. L. 
Britton and W. H. Welch from the Com- 
mittee on Policy were accepted and D. T. 
MacDougal and W. J. Humphreys were 
appointed to fill the vacancies. 
The council authorized an increase in 
compensation of the present assistant to 
the permanent secretary from $100 per 
month to $125 per month. 
A resolution was adopted recommending 
that future delegates from the association 
to international conferences and other dele- 
gate bodies be requested to submit brief 
reports to the council. 
A report from Dr. Hutton Webster, 
delegate to the First Races Contest, was 
read and ordered filed, and the report of 
Dr. B. Shimek, delegate to the Third 
National Conservation Congress, was pre- 
sented and placed on file. 
The council resolved that the American 
Association for the Advancement of Sci- 
ence reaffirms its approval of the establish- 
ment of a National Department of Public 
Health. 
Senator Theodore E. Burton, Dr. Wm. 
Trelease and Dr. Henry B. Ward were 
elected to fill vacancies in the council. 
The following grants were allowed for 
the ensuing year: 
To the Concilium Bibliographicum ........ $200 
To Mr. Frank C. Gates, A.B., for an investi- 
gation of the relation of transpiration to 
plant structure in bog plants, in collabora- 
tion with Professor T. C. Newcombe .... $100 
The following amendments to the con- 
stitution were read as a formal notifica- 
tion in order that they may be acted upon 
next year under the provisions of the con- 
stitution : 
Article 31. 
following: 
“‘The permanent secretary shall publish from 
time to time a list of officers and members of the 
association together with such other matter as the 
council may direct. 
Substitute for existing article the 
SCIENCE 0 
Article 8. In closing line omit the word 
‘annual,’ 
Article 6. Omit final sentence. 
Article 19. Omit ‘‘in the annual volume of 
Proceedings. ’’ 
Same article, omit ‘‘to the printing and dis- 
tribution of the annual volume of Proceedings 
and all other.’’ 
Article 22. After ‘‘Education’’ add 
‘“‘M, Agriculture,’’ or 
“(M, Agriculture and Forestry,’’ or 
‘“(M, Forestry,’’ 
and 
‘‘And the council shall have power to create 
additional sections from time to time when deemed 
desirable. ’’ 
Article 22. Lines 4 and 5, change from ‘‘H, 
Anthropology and Psychology’’ to ‘‘H, Anthro- 
pology.’’ 
Article 22. Abolish Section I. 
At a meeting of the general committee 
held Friday evening, December 29, it was 
resolved to hold the next meeting at Cleve- 
land, Ohio, the meeting to begin on the 
Monday of the week in which January first, 
1913, falls. It was further resolved to 
recommend to the next general committee 
that the meeting for 1913 be held in 
Atlanta, Georgia. It was further resolved 
that the committee looks with favor on the 
plan of holding a summer meeting on the 
Pacifie coast in 1915. 
The following officers were elected for 
the coming year: 
President—Dr. Edward C. Pickering, director of 
the Harvard Astronomical Observatory. 
Vice-presidents : 
See. A—E. B. Van Vleck, University of Wis- 
consin. 
See. B—Arthur Gordon Webster, Clark Univer- 
sity. 
See. C—W. Lash Miller, Toronto. 
Sec. D—J. A. Holmes, Washington, D. C. 
See. E—James E. Todd, University of Kansas. 
Sec. F—William A. Locy, Northwestern Uni- 
versity. 
Sec. G—D. S. Johnson, Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity. 
See. H—J. Walter Fewkes, Washington, D. C. 
See. I—John Hays Hammond, New York. 
