December 7, 1917] 



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their dues to the permanent secretary so far 

 in advance of the meeting as possible. In this 

 ■way they will receive their cards by mail at 

 once and avoid the necessity of waiting in line 

 to make payment at the meeting. Do not for- 

 get to bring youx white Registration Card to 

 Pittsburgh. 



Members who have not previously paid their 

 dues for the Pittsburgh meeting will please 

 call at the office of the permanent secretary, 

 Main Building, Carnegie Institute, after 9 

 o'clock on Friday, December 28, to receive 

 their members' tickets. The office of the 

 permanent secretary will be used throughout 

 the week for registration purposes. Members 

 will register and receive their badges after 

 paying their dues. 



All members of affiliated societies who are 

 not also members of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science are earnestly 

 requested to register their names at the desk 

 provided for that purpose in the office of the 

 permanent secretary, in the Main Building, 

 Carnegie Institute, in order that an estimate 

 may be made of the number of persons in at- 

 tendance at the meetings. 



Attention is called to the following rule re- 

 lating to members' families and other as- 

 sociates : 



Every member of the association shall have the 

 privilege of registering members of his family as 

 associates (not including men over twenty-one 

 years of age) by paying the sum of three dollars 

 for each person so registered, and shall receive 

 for them badges which will entitle the holder 

 thereof to such privileges as may be extended to 

 the members generally by the local committee for 

 the meeting. 



Members of scientific societies whose meetings 

 are contemporaneous with or immediately subse- 

 quent to that of the association, and which are 

 recognized by votes of the council as "affiliated 

 societies," may become associate members for 

 that meeting on the payment of three dollars. 

 They shall be entitled to all the privileges of 

 membership except voting or appointment to office, 

 but their names shall not appear in the list of 

 members printed in the report. 



All dues and admission fees must be paid 

 at the office of the permanent secretary, and 

 the annual dues for 1918 should be paid before 



registering and receiving the association badge 

 and program. 



As changes of address in the printed list of 

 members are made only by request of a mem- 

 ber, members will please be particular in re- 

 porting any changes of permanent address, also 

 the decease of other members, at the office of 

 the permanent secretary. 



The register for the Pittsburgh meeting will 

 be open on Friday, December 28, and succeed- 

 ing days, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the perma- 

 nent secretary's office. Main Building, Car- 

 negie Institute. 



L. O. Howard, 

 Permanent Secretary, A. A. A. S. 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 Washington, D. C. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Dr. William Gilson Farlow, professor of 

 botany at Harvard University, has been elected 

 a corresponding member of the French Acad- 

 emy of Sciences. 



Professor Vernon Kellogg has accepted an 

 invitation to give the annual address to the 

 Entomological Society of America, at the an- 

 nual meeting in Pittsburgh, on December 29. 



Mr. Douglas Stewart, assistant director of 

 the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, is chair- 

 man of the Committee on Scientific Exhibits 

 for the meeting of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science in Pittsburgh, 

 December 28, 1917, to January 2, 1918. Those 

 interested in these exhibits are requested to 

 correspond with Mr. Stewart. 



The de Morgan medal of the London Mathe- 

 matical Society has been awarded to Professor 

 W. H. Young, of the University of Liverpool 

 and the University of Calcutta. 



Sir J. J. Thomson has been nominated by 

 the council of the Royal Society for reelection 

 as president. Other officers nominated by the 

 council are as follows: Treasurer, Sir A. 

 Kempe; Secretaries, Professor A. Schuster 

 and Mr. W. B. Hardy; Foreign Secretary, 

 Professor "W. A. Herdman; Other Members of 

 the Council, Dr. H. Iv. Anderson, Sir G. T. 

 Beilby, Professor G. C. Bourne, Professor A. 



