Decembek 23, 1921] 



SCIENCE 



623 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR 

 THE ADVANCEMENT O'F SCIENCE 



REPORT OF THE AUTUMN MEETING OF THE 

 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL 



The meeting was called to order in the office of 

 The Science Press, in the Grand Central Terminal 

 Building, New York City, at 3 o'clock, November 

 20, 1921, Chairman Flexner presiding. The follow- 

 ing members were present : Cattell, Fairchild, Flex- 

 ner, Howard, Humphreys, Livingston, MacDougal, 

 Moore, Osborn, Ward. Excepting A. A. Noyes, the 

 entire committee was present. 



1. The minutes of the las.t meeting (April 24, 

 1921) were approved as mailed to all members of 

 the committee. 



2. The permanent secretary's report was consid- 

 ered in some detail and was accepted and ordered 

 filed. A resume follows : 



The Summarised Proceedings was published 

 October 10. The membership list was closed June 

 15, so that the published list is corrected only to 

 that date. 2,300 copies were priated at a cost of 

 $5,378.58. The preparation, of the manuscript cost 

 $1,313.73 as extra clerical expenses. Adding this 

 amount to the cost of publication gives $6,692.31. 

 This total cost of the book is partially offset by 

 sales of 1,796 copies amounting to $2,183.00. 

 The book thus cost the Association $4,509.31 net, 

 chargeable against the seven years, 1915 to 1921. 

 130 copies were given away, of which 74 went to 

 general officers, section secretaries, and secretaries 

 of affiliated societies, for their official use. Of the 

 remaining 56 free copies, 53 were complimentary to 

 institutions and libraries outside of the United 

 States, and 3 copies were sent out on account of 

 exchanges. 



Three Boolclets were printed and circulated since 

 the last mee.ting of the executive committee. By 

 means of one of these the resolutions recently 

 adopted by the Association were placed in the 

 hands of all mem.bers. About 12,500 copies of that 

 booklet were sent out. A hooklet of general in- 

 formation was used in the circularization for new 

 members (about 25,000 have been sent out), and 

 another booklet announcing the Toronto meeting 

 was sent to all members with the bills of October 1. 



New members of the affiliated societies and all 

 members of the newly affiliated societies (The 

 American Mathematical Society, The Mathematical 

 Association of America, The American Geograph- 

 ical Society, The American Society for Testing 

 Materials, The American Society of Agronomy, The 

 Society of Sigma Xi, and the Gamma Alpha Gradu- 



ate Scientific Fraternity) were invited to joiu the 

 Association without entrance fee, as far as the nec- 

 essary lists could be procured. About 20,000 such 

 invitations have been sent out and about 10,000 

 more will go out when the lists arrive from the so- 

 ciety secretaries. 4,300 names for circularization 

 were obtained from the new volume of " Ameri- 

 can Men of Science." (To Nov. 20, this circular- 

 ization — ^of about 24,300 names — has secured 557 

 new members.) A tabulated membership report 

 will be published later. 



3. The general secretary's verbal report was 

 accepted. He reported correspondence with the 

 Utah Academy of Science. This Academy has 

 altered its movement for separation from the Paeifie 

 Division. He had been in consultation with officers 

 of sections, and it was believed that stronger coun- 

 cil sessions would result at future meetings. He 

 reported that arrangements were being made by 

 which various different interests have been centered 

 in the program of Section C for the Toronto meet- 

 ing. 



A recess, from 6:30 to 8:00, was taken for din- 

 ner, after which the committee convened again. 



4. Mr. J. B. Tyrrell was elected chairman of Sec- 

 tion M and vice-president for that section. 



5. Mr. L. "W. Wallace was elected secretary of 

 Section M. 



5a. Dr. A. B. Macailvmi, professor of biological 

 chemistry at McGUl University, was elected a vice- 

 president, and chairman of Section N. 



6. Fifty-six fellows were elected, distributed 

 among the sections as follows: 



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 6 3 3 1 4 19 3 2 14 i 



7. The American Society of Mammalogists was 

 constituted an affiliated society. 



8. It was voted that the American Ceramic 

 Society be invited to become associated and to be- 

 come afiiliated if the number of A. A. A. S. mem- 

 bers in the society should prove to warrant affilia- 

 tion. 



9. The Phi Delta Kappa Fraternity was invited 

 to become an associated society. 



10. The Canadian Society of Technical Agricul- 

 turists was invited to become an associated society. 



11. The petition of 32 members resident in State 

 College, Pa., dated November 1, was granted, thus 

 constituting a local branch in that place, to be 

 known as the State College (Pa.) Branch of the 

 A. A. A. S. The branch is to receive 50 cents for 

 each payment of annual dues made to the A. A. 

 A. S. by its members. 



12. It was voted that the committee regards it as 



