' JANUARY 5, 1912] 
Dr. H. B. Talbot, chairman of the Divi- 
sion of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, 
delivered an address on Wednesday after- 
noon, on the ‘‘Privileges and Responsibil- 
ities of the Chemical Analyst.’’ 
On Thursday evening, the president of 
the American Chemical Society, Dr. 
Alexander Smith, addressed the society on 
the subject, ‘‘An Early Physical Chemist.’’ 
The address was followed by a lecture by 
Frank B. Kenrick and H. EH. Howe, on 
‘“‘Hantern Experiments on Reactions in 
Heterogeneous Systems.”’ 
A symposium on.‘‘Drug Assay’’ was held 
on Friday morning by the Division of 
Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and one on 
““Mineral Wastes and Conservations’’ was 
held by the Division of Industrial Chemists 
and Chemical Engineers. 
President R. 8. Tarr, of the Association 
of American Geographers, gave his presi- 
dential address on Friday morning, on 
“The Glaciers and Glaciation of Alaska.’’ 
The Paleontological Society of America 
held a symposium Friday morning, on 
““Ten Years Progress in Vertebrate Paleon- 
tology.”’ 
A symposium on “‘ Instinet and Intelli- 
gence’? was held on Wednesday morning 
by the American Psychological Association. 
The subject of the address of President 
Franz of the Southern Society for Philos- 
ophy and Psychology, given on Thursday 
afternoon, was ‘‘New Phrenology’’ and 
that of President Seashore, of the Ameri- 
ean Psychological Association, given on 
Thursday evening, was ‘‘The Measure of a 
Singer.”’ 
Professor J. H. Comstock addressed the 
Entomological Society of America on 
Wednesday evenine on ‘‘Some Biological 
Features of Spiders.’’ 
The Section of Botany held a symposium 
on ‘‘Soils’? on Wednesday afternoon, and 
the Botanical Society of America held a 
symposium on Thursday afternoon on 
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“‘Modern Aspects of Paleobotany’’ after 
the retiring president, Dr. E. F. Smith, had 
delivered his presidential address on 
“*Some Aspects of the Relationship of the 
Crowngall Disease to Human Cancer.”’ 
Dr. H. M. Beldon gave his presidential 
address, on ‘‘Folk Poetry in America,’’ on 
Thursday morning, before a joint session of 
Section H and the American Folk-Lore 
Society. In the afternoon, the joint ses- 
sion was in charge of the American Anthro- 
pological Association and a symposium was 
held on ‘‘ Environment and Culture.”’ 
Presidential addresses by Dr. F. H. 
Giddings, president of the American 
Sociological Society, on the ‘‘Quality of 
Civilization’’ and by Dr. H. W. Farnum, 
president of the American Economie Asso- 
ciation, on ‘‘The Economic Utilization of 
History,’’ were given before a joint meet- 
ing of the two societies, on Wednesday 
evening. 
On Friday afternoon at a joint meeting 
of Section K with the American Physio- 
logical Society and the Society of Ameri- 
ean Bacteriologists a symposium was held 
on ‘‘ Acapina and Shock.’’ 
The council of the American Association 
met daily and the following are the chief 
items of business transacted : 
Highty-seven new members were elected 
into the association, and the following were 
elected fellows of the association: Frank H. 
Bailey, Fred Asa Barnes, John Fritz, A. A. 
Hammerslog, Truman Michelson, F. Paul 
Anderson, Gardner Chace Anthony, Henry 
Sturgis Drinker, Louis Doremus Huntoon, 
William Christian Hood, Clement Ross 
Jones, John Price Jackson, James W. 
Lawrence, Edwin Hoyt Lockwood, Chas. E. 
Suche, Francis C. Shenehon, Frederick W. 
Sperr, James T. Beard, Wm. J. Sharwood, 
Lula Pace, Pliny EH. Goddard, George 
Byron Gordon, Guy M. Whipple, Milo B. 
Hillegas, Frederick EH. Farrington, Harold 
