DECEMBER 20, 1918] 
photograph of still another which was taken 
on the north coast of Java. Pertinent here 
are the on with which I closed the section 
entitled “ Habitat” im my larger paper pre- 
viously referred to: “its special habitat seems 
to be in the Indian Ocean and the waters con- 
tiguous thereto.” 
E. W. Gupcer 
THE BALTIMORE MEETING OF THE 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 
Tue American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science and the national scientific 
societies named below will meet in Baltimore, 
during convocation week, beginning on Thurs- 
day, December 26, 1918: 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 
or Scrence.—President, Professor John M. Coul- 
ter, University of Chicago; retiring president, Pro- 
fessor Theodore W. Richards, Harvard University ; 
permanent secretary, Dr. L. O. Howard, Smith- 
sonian Institution, Washington, D. C.; general sec- 
retary, O. E. Jennings, Carnegie Museum, Pitts- 
burgh, Pa. 
Section A—Mathematics and Astronomy.—Vice- 
president, Professor George D. Birkhoff, Harvard 
University; secretary, F. R. Moulton, University of 
Chieago, Chicago, Ill. 
Section B—Physics.—Vice-president, Professor 
Gordon F. Hull, Dartmouth College; secretary, Pro- 
fessor George W. Stewart, University of Iowa, 
Iowa City, Ia. 
Section C—Chemistry.—Vice-president, Pro- 
fessor Alexander Smith, Columbia University; sec- 
retary, Professor Arthur A. Blanchard, Massachu- 
setts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 
Section D—Mechanical Science and Engineering. 
—Vice-president, Professor Ira N. Hollis, Wor- 
cester Polytechnic Institute; secretary, Professor 
F. L. Bishop, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 
Pa. 
Section E—Geology and Geography.—Vice-presi- 
dent, Dr. David White, U. S. Geological Survey; 
secretary, Rollin T, Chamberlin, University of Chi- 
eago, Chicago, Ml. 
Section F—Zoology.—Vice-president, Professor 
William Patten, Dartmouth College; secretary, 
fiber Fische das Java-Meéres), Natuwurkundig 
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Professor W. C. Allee, Lake Forest College, Lake 
Forest, Il. 
Section G—Botany.—Vice-president, Dr. A. F. 
Blakeslee, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.; secretary, 
Dr. Mel T. Cook, Agricultural Experiment Station, 
New Brunswick, N. J. 
Section H—Anthropology and Psychology.— 
Vice-president, AleS Hrdlitka, U. 8. National Mu- 
seum; secretary, Lieutenant Colonel E. K. Strong, 
Jr., Room 528 State, War and Navy Building, 
Washington, D. C. 
Section I—Social and Economic Science.—Vice- 
president, John Barrett, Pan-American Union; sec- 
retary, Seymour C. Loomis, 69 Church Street, 
New Haven, Conn. 
Section K—Physiology and Experimental Medt- 
cine-—Vice-president, Professor Frederic S. Lee, 
Columbia University; secretary, Professor J. A. 
Goldfarb, College of the City of New York, New 
York City. 
Section L—Education.—Vice-president, Dr. 
Stuart A. Courtis, Detroit Department of Educa- 
tional Research; secretary, Major Bird T. Baldwin, 
Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, D. C. 
Section M—Agriculture.—Vice-president, Pro- 
fessor Henry P. Armsby, State College, Pa.; secre- 
tary, Dr. E. W. Allen, U. S. Department of Agri- 
culture, Washington, D. C. 
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS OF THE 
MATHEMATICAL AND THE NaTuRAL SCIENCES.— 
Will hold Council meeting at 10 a.xt., December 27. 
Secretary, William <A. Hedrick, Central High 
School, Washington, D. C. 
AMERICAN PHysicaL SocreTy.—Will hold joint 
sessions with Section B, A, A. A. S., from December 
26 to 28. President, H. A. Bumstead; secretary; 
Dayton C. Miller, Case School of Applied Science, 
Cleveland, Ohio. 
OpticaL Socrery oF AMERICA.—Will meet on 
Friday, December 27. President, F. E. Wright; 
secretary, P. G. Nutting, Westinghouse Research 
Laboratory, East Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Socrery For PROMOTION oF ENGINEERING EDU- 
CATION.—December 26-28. President, John F. 
Hayford; secretary, F. L. Bishop, University of 
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
GroLoaioaL Society oF AMERIOA.—December 27 
and 28. Joint meeting with Association of Amer- 
ican Geographers, afternoon of December 28; joint 
meeting with Section E, A. A. A. S., on night of 
December 28. President, Whitman Cross, U. 8. 
Geological Survey; secretary, E. O. Hovey, Amer- 
ican Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y. 
