Decembek 14, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



583 



THE ANNUAL MEETINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETIES 



The annual scientific meetings of the Bio- 

 logical Societies (The Federation of Ameri- 

 can Societies for Experimental Biology, The 

 American Association of Anatomists and The 

 American Society of Zoologists) will be held in 

 the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 

 Minnesota, December 27, 28 and 29. 



The Hotel Radisson will be headquarters for 

 all the societies. Arrangements will also be 

 made with fraternity and boarding houses for 

 those desiring them. 



The federation has arranged to hold a day 

 session at the Mayo Clinic in Eochester, Min- 

 nesota, on December 29. For this purpose ar- 

 rangements have been made to have sleeping 

 cars leave Minneapolis on the night of the 28th 

 in order that no time shall be lost. The 

 Mayo surgical hospitals will be visited, as will 

 also the experimental laboratories and at the 

 afternoon session a scientific program will be 

 presented. Members of the federation should 

 have their tickets from the east routed from 

 Chicago to Minneapolis and from the west 

 through Omaha or Kansas City to Minneapo- 

 lis. Tickets for the return trip should be 

 routed from Minneapolis over the Chicago 

 and Great Western Eailway to Rochester and 

 from Rochester to Chicago for the east, and to 

 Omaha or Kansas City for the west. Mem- 

 bers of the Anatomical and Zoological Socie- 

 ties are cordiaEy invited to attend this Ro- 

 chester meeting if they care to do so, although 

 programs for these societies have been ar- 

 ranged for the same date in Minneapolis. 



There will be a joint dinner in the Gold 

 Room, Hotel Radisson, on Thursday at 6 :30 

 P.M. at $1.50 per plate, also, a joint smoker 

 will be held at the Teco Inn, Hotel Radisson, 

 at 8 :15 p.m. on Friday. Fifty-cent luncheons 

 will be served at 1 p.m. in the Minnesota 

 Union, University of Minnesota, each day 

 throughout the meetings. 



After full consideration by the executive 

 committees and councils of the societies con- 

 cerned, it has been decided to hold the meet- 

 ings in Minneapolis on December 27, 28 and 

 29, as voted one year ago. This action is taken 

 on the ground that it would he disastrous to 



the progress of research and the best interests 

 of the biological sciences if no annual meetings 

 for the reporting of investigations^ for the 

 exchange of ideas and for mutual encourage- 

 ment should be held. 



The local committee at Minneapolis cor- 

 dially endorses this decision on the part of the 

 authorities of the several societies and de- 

 sires to emphasize in addition the impetus 

 that can be given to science in the northwest 

 by a successful meeting at the University of 

 Minnesota. To this end they are planning for 

 a program of unusual interest. Not only will 

 scientific papers of value be presented before 

 the various societies — papers which in many 

 instances will deal with matters pertaining to 

 the war — but also visitors will have an oppor- 

 tunity to see the recent new laboratories of 

 the University of Minnesota and especially to 

 visit under the best of conditions the Mayo 

 Clinic at Rochester and become acquainted 

 with the research work going on there under 

 the Mayo Foundation. 



On behalf, therefore, of the University of 

 Minnesota and with the cordial concurrence of 

 its president and board of regents we invite 

 you to attend these meetings. We urge you 

 as a duty to science to help make the gathering 

 a success. We believe that it is incumbent 

 upon every scientific man to supirort the cause 

 to which he has devoted his life, the cause of 

 scientific progress. We, therefore, most re- 

 spectfully and earnestly urge you to attend 

 these meetings, to contribute to the programs, 

 to take part in the discussions and to bring to 

 the support of science the same loyalty and 

 sacrifice that America is giving to every other 

 basic principle of our civilization. 



We also ask that you inform young scientists 

 of your staff and acquaintance who are not 

 yet members of the societies, concerning these 

 meetings, and invite them to be present. 



L. G. EOWNTREE, 



Chairman, Local Committee 



SECTION M (AGRICULTURE) OF THE AMERI- 

 CAN ASSOCIATION AT PITTSBURGH 



The Section of Agriculture will hold ses- 

 sions on Friday and Saturday, December 28 

 and 29. A symposium on the topic " Factors 



