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the preliminary announcement of the executive 

 committee as follows: 



The Eesearch Board of the University of 

 California is arranging a research conference 

 to be held at the luncheon hour on Thursday, 

 August 4. The special topic for discussion 

 will be " A Survey of Eesearch Conditions in 

 Pacific Coast Institutions." The meeting will 

 be open to members of the Pacific Division 

 and of affiliated societies who are particularly 

 interested in the development of research in 

 Pacific coast colleges and universities. 



THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2:00 P.M., IN WHEELER 

 HALL 



Science and the Public Health 

 Following the plan so successfully intro- 

 duced at the Pasadena meeting in 1919, and 

 successfully continued at the Seattle meeting 

 in 1920, of attempting some constructive ap- 

 plication of scientific knowledge to important 

 problems of the day, there has been arranged 

 for this meeting a symposium on the after- 

 noon of August 4. The subject is that of the 

 relation of science to public health — a subject 

 with which every one is vitally concerned. 

 An analysis of the vote on each of the four 

 so-called " health amendments " upon which 

 the electorate of California was permitted to 

 express its views at the general election last 

 ISTovember, is all that is required to enable 

 one to realize the seriousness of the situation 

 and the necessity for a campaign of education. 

 The public should be fully informed as to what 

 the adoption of those amendments would really 

 mean. To assist the public to a realization of 

 the seriousness of this menace to scientific 

 investigation and to the public health, a sym- 

 posium has been arranged in which the ques- 

 tion will be presented from different view- 

 points, as follows : 



Public health mid human welfare: Dr. Eat Lyman 

 WiLBtTR, president, Leland Stanford Jr. Univer- 

 sity. 

 Whose business is the publio health? Dk. F. P. 

 Gay, professor of pathology, University of 

 California. 

 Education in relation to public health and medi- 



cal practise: De. S. J. Holmes, professor of 

 zoology, University of California. 



Physical health and mental health: Dk. PHttlP 

 King Beown, president of the California Tu- 

 berculosis Association, San Francisco. 



Sural and Indiistrial Sanitation: Dr. C. A. Ko- 

 pom, professor of zoology at the University of 

 California. 



Public health and experimental biology: De. H. 

 B. ToRKEY, professor of zoology, University of 

 Oregon. 



Immediately following the close of the sym- 

 posium, a general session of the Pacific Di- 

 vision will be held for the purpose of electing 

 four members of the executive committee. 



THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 8:00 P.M., IN" WHEELER 

 HALL 



On the evening of August 4, President David 

 P. Barrows, of the University of California, 

 will give an address of welcome to which re- 

 sponse will be made by Dr. Barton "Warren 

 Evermann, chairman of the executive com- 

 mittee. This will be followed by the address 

 of the retiring president of the Pacific Di- 

 vision, Dr. "William E. Eitter, who will speak 

 on " Scientific Idealism." After the address 

 of the president a reception will be held. The 

 public is cordially invited to attend this and 

 all meetings and lectures of the Pacific Di- 

 vision and of the affiliated societies. 



A public address will be given on the after- 

 noon of August 5 by Professor Henry N"orris 

 Eussell, professor of astronomy, Princeton 

 University, on " The properties of matter as 

 illustrated by the stars." 



A banquet will be arranged for the evening 

 of August 5 for all members of the Pacific 

 Division and affiliated societies. The cost 

 per plate will not exceed $2.00. 



Astronomi<Ml Society of the Pacific 

 Chaeles S. Gushing, president. First National 



Bank Building, San Francisco. 

 D. S. RiCHAEDSON, secretary-treasurer, 22 Battery 



St., San Francisco. 



Meetings of the Astronomical Society of the 

 Pacific will be held in Eoom 1, Students' Ob- 

 servatory, University of California, Berkeley, 



