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Hotel at 10 o’clock on Friday evening, Decem- 
ber 27. The several sections of the Associa- 
tion will hold their sessions for the nomina- 
tion of officers and the transaction of other 
business on the eall of the chairman, in most 
eases just before or just after the address of 
the retiring vice-president. 
It is expected that there will be a num- 
ber of joint meetings and the usual smokers 
and dinners and meetings of specific societies 
and groups. Among these, may be mentioned 
the symposium of the Geological Society of 
America, the Association of American Geog- 
raphers and Section E on the Relations 
of Geology to the War. The Geological 
Society will hold a smoker on Friday night 
and its annual dinner on Saturday night, fol- 
lowed by the address of its retiring president. 
The American Society of Naturalists will 
hold its usual dinner on Saturday night, fol- 
lowed by an address by Dr. Vernon L. Kellogg 
on “The German philosophy of war.” Section 
¥, on Saturday afternoon, will hold a general 
conference between governmental and labora- 
tory zoologists. The American Association of 
Economic Entomologists will have a program 
giving particular prominence to the insect 
problems that are vital in connection with war 
activities. The Botanical Society of America, 
with the American Phytopathological Society, 
will hold a symposium on Our Present Duty 
as Botanists. The Botanists’ annual dinner 
will be held on Friday night. The American 
Phytopathological Society will hold its tenth 
anniversary dinner on Wednesday night. 
Baltimore hotels are: 
Southern Hotel—Association 
Light and German Streets. 
Emerson—Baltimore and Calvert Streets. 
Belvedere—Charles and Chase Streets. 
Rennert—Liberty and Saratoga Streets. 
Stafford—Charles and Madison Streets. 
Caswell—Baltimore and Hanover Streets . 
New Howard—Howard and Baltimore Streets. 
Altamont—Eutaw Place and Lanvale Street. 
Eutaw Hotel—Eutaw and Fayette Streets. 
Waldorf—Charles Street and North Avenue. 
Reservations should be made well in ad- 
vance, but it is not anticipated that persons in 
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attendance will be unduly hampered in finding 
quarters. Camps Holabird and Meade are in 
proximity of Baltimore, it is true, and the 
hotels have been previously crowded by the 
wives and families of the Army men stationed 
at these camps; but this condition, it is 
thought, will be somewhat alleviated. For the 
convenience of members who prefer room and 
board in private residences in proximity to the 
meeting-places at the university, the associa- 
tion has been fortunate in securing the sery- 
ices, through the courtesy of President Good- 
now, of a librarian of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 
versity for the handling of such details as 
would regularly devolve upon the local com- 
mittee. This librarian, Miss L. M. Bollman, 
is now advertising for rooms in private resi- 
dences and is asking for rates on (1) room 
with board, (2) room without board, and (8) 
board only, the latter for the convenience of 
those members who are located downtown but- 
wish to dine in proximity to the university. 
Miss Bollman will maintain a list, available to 
members of the American Association and the 
affiliated societies, of all accommodations 
listed under the above three headings. 
Members of the association and the aftiliated 
societies will, doubtless, realize that a reduc- 
tion on railway fares is not practicable at a 
critical time such as this. The assistant sec- 
retary, at the time of his interview with the 
United States Railroad Administration, was 
assured that the only exceptions to this policy 
were in the cases of the gatherings of the 
veterans of the Civil and Spanish wars and of 
the State Agricultural Fairs, the latter having 
precedence because of the need of stimulating 
food production. 
The following affiliated societies have indi- 
cated their intention to meet in Baltimore dur- 
ing Convocation Week: 
American Federation of Teachers of the 
Mathematical and the Natural Sciences —Will 
meet on date to be announced. Secretary, Wil- 
liam A. Hedrick, Central High School, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 
American Physical Society— Will hold joint 
sessions with Section B, A. A. A. S., on dates 
