January 13, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



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wbicli was held during the last week of the 

 year just ended, was the seventy-fourth meet- 

 ing of the association. It was successful in 

 every way and must go on record as the most 

 satisfactory meeting thus far held, aside from 

 the greater, four-yearly meetings. Some of 

 these greater meetings — as the last Chicago 

 meeting, for example — have surpassed it in the 

 number of those in attendance, and in the 

 number of societies meeting with the associa- 

 tion, but it is safe to say that the second 

 Toronto meeting was at least equal to any pre- 

 vious meeting in other respects. Fourteen sec- 

 tions of the association were represented, and 

 twenty-six associated societies. The general 

 program,'- of 95 pages, showed the programs of 

 all sections and societies. About nine hundred 

 addresses and contributed papers were pre- 

 sented, representing nearly all branches of 

 science. If these were printed together they 

 would make four large volumes. 



The total number of those in attendance was 

 1,832, geographically distributed as shown 

 below : 



Summary : 

 United States, including Hawaii and the 



Philippine Islands 867 



Canada 953 



England, Belgium and Japan 12 



Total , 1,832 



By Eegions: 



City of Toronto 686 



Ontario outside of Toronto 186 



Quebec 34 



New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince 



Edward Island 15 



New York State 199 



Maine, Vermont^ New Hampshire and 



Khode Island 34 



Massachusetts 48 



Connecticut 19 



Pennsylvania 68 



1 Fifteen hundred copies of the general pro- 

 gram were printed, but this number proved to be 

 inadequate, and many of those who registered 

 late in the meeting did not receive copies. A few 

 copies are now available in the permanent secre- 

 tary's Washington office, and these may be had 

 by members on request, as long as the supply 

 lasts. 



New Jersey 28 



District of Columbia 57 



West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware and 



Marj'land 39 



Ohio 59 



Michigan 48 



Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee 34 



Wisconsin 30 



Illinois 77 



Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri 54 



North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and 



Kansas 19 



Saskatchewan and Manitoba 22 



Montana, Wyoming and Colorado 13 



British Columbia and Alberta 10 



Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, 



Nevada and Utah 11 



North Carolina, South Carolina Georgia, 



Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana 



and Arkansas 16 



Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma 12 



England 5 



Belgium 3 



Hawaii 1 



Philippine Islands 1 



Japan 4 



On the afternoon of Monday, December 26, 

 the day before the of&eial opening, the secre- 

 taries of the sections met with the general 

 secretary and the permanent secretary to dis- 

 cuss some of the general problems of the asso- 

 ciation. They dined together and continued 

 their conference in the evening. On Tuesday 

 afternoon Dr. F. R. Moulton, professor of 

 astronomy in the University of Chicago, 

 showed some very fine motion pictures on sci- 

 entific subjects, illustrating the use of motion 

 pictures in education. The films were fur- 

 nished by the Society for Visual Education of 

 Chicago. 



This meeting of the association and the 

 associated societies was held in Toronto on 

 invitation of the University of Toronto and of 

 the Royal Canadian Institute. The sessions 

 were held in the buildings of the university, 

 which are excellently adapted for such pur- 

 poses, while the majority of those in attend- 

 ance were very conveniently housed in the 

 university dormitories. Meals were served in 

 the university dining halls. These arrange- 

 ments proved to be unusually convenient and 

 satisfactory for all, and especially for those 



