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pages — had to be printed in a single week 

 from the time the first batches of manuscript 

 were received by Dr. McMurrich. Indeed, 

 most of the program manuscripts did not 

 reach him till December 20 and 21, and the 

 book was completed by noon on December 24. 

 The University of Toronto Press gave very 

 efficient and really wonderful service in this 

 connection. 



The registration room, in charge of the 

 executive assistant, Mr. Sam Woodley, was 

 conveniently and centrally located, in the 

 library building of the university. An able 

 corps of assistants was provided, and the work 

 of the registration office went forward with 

 exceptional smoothness. The same form of 

 visible directory as was used at the last annual 

 meeting was employed at Toronto, and this 

 again proved to be a valuable feature of the 

 meeting. By this plan, a continuously cor- 

 rected list of those in attendance, with their 

 home addresses and those for the meeting, is 

 kept convenient for public consultation in the 

 registration room. The assistant secretary, Dr. 

 Sam F. Trelease, assisted the permanent secre- 

 tary in many ways, aside from his work as 

 secretary of the council. He gave valuable 

 sei-viee in the editing of the manuscripts for 

 the general program before they were sent to 

 Toronto be printed. He has also helped very 

 much in the preparation of the present paper 

 and the other reports of the meeting that are to 

 be published in Science. 



PubUeity was unusuaUy well handled at the 

 Toronto meeting. As was announced in the 

 preliminary announcement and also in Science 

 before the meeting, the recently organized 

 Science Service cooperated with the association 

 in arousing public interest in the meeting, 

 thi-ough the daily press. Dr. E. E. Slosson, 

 editor of Science Service, and Mr. Watson 

 Davis were present throughout the meeting, 

 on behalf of the Science Service. Many of 

 the papers oecui'ring on the programs at 

 Toronto were given attention in the weekly 

 "Science News Bulletin" sent to newspapers 

 by the Science Service for the week of the 

 meeting, and many daLUes received each day 

 from the service a 500-word telegraphic report 

 on the meeting. 



Besides the valuable publicity work of the 

 Science Service, which is under the control of 

 the American Association, the U. S. National 

 Academy and the U. S. National Research 

 Council, and which operates for the sole pur- 

 pose of disseminating scientific knowledge 

 . through the newspapers, just as valuable and 

 eiScient publicity work was accomplished by 

 the Local Subcommittee on Publicity, of which 

 Professor A. G. Huntsman was chainnan. At 

 Professor Huntsman's suggestion, a new fea- 

 ture was introduced this year by the per- 

 manent secretary's office. As the manuscripts 

 for the general program came in during the 

 week preceding Christmas day, the names of 

 all speakers were copied off, after which the 

 manuscripts were edited and forwarded to 

 Toronto for printing. To each name occurring 

 on each day's list was addressed a letter asking 

 for an abstract of the paper to be given at 

 Toronto by that individual, and enclosing a 

 blank form for this abstract, to be returned to 

 Professor Huntsman. This work had to be 

 done with great rapidity, but large numbers 

 of abstracts were received and these furnished 

 material for the work of the Subconunittee on 

 Publicity. It seems desirable to develop this 

 feature of special personal requests for ab- 

 stracts and to retain it for future annual 

 meetings of the association. Professor Hunts- 

 man and his colleagues used the abstracts as 

 they came in, so as to have representative and 

 suitable material ready for the newspapers 

 during the meeting, and they thus secured for 

 the association unusually excellent and excep- 

 tionally satisfactory treatment by the daily 

 press of Toronto and other cities. 



A report of the proceedings of the Council 

 at Toronto will appear in a later issue of 

 Science. 



BuETON E. Livingston, 

 Permanent Secretary. 



CAROLINE BURLING THOMPSON 

 1869-1921 



De. Caroline Burling Thohpson, professor 

 of zoology at Wellesley College, died on Decem- 

 ber 5, 1921. Professor Thompson was noted 

 not only for the excellence and thoroughness 

 of her original methods of teaching, but also 



