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SCIENCE 



[Vol. LV, No. 1413 



District No. 1, W. B. Powell, St. Louis; Dis- 

 trict No. 2, Gardner S. Williams, Ann Arbor, 

 Mich. ; District No. 4, W. J. Fisher, York, Pa. ; 

 District No. 5, Paul Wright, Birmingham, Ala. ; 

 District No. 6, Lloyd B. Smith, Topeka, 

 Kansas; District No. 7, 0. H. Koch, Dallas, 

 Texas. 



ASSOCIATESHIP IN THE AMERICAN ASSO- 

 CIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 

 OF SCIENCE 



In the By-Laws and Rules of Procedure of 

 the American Association, Article II, Section 

 2, is the statement that "Associates, on pay- 

 ment of five dollars, may be admitted to the 

 privileges of a meeting, except voting." The 

 associateship was planned for those who desire 

 to attend a meeting of the association and to 

 contribute toward the expenses of the meet- 

 ing but who do not wish to join the organiza- 

 tion permanently. Since the adoption of the 

 new constitution, with the new by-laws and 

 rules of procedure, there have been but two 

 meetings, the Chicago meeting of the year 

 1920-21 and the recent meeting held at Toronto. 

 No associates were registered for the Chicago 

 meeting, but 247 were registered at the last 

 meeting. These were mostly residents of 

 Toronto. 



The permanent secretary wishes to call the 

 attention of all members and friends of the 

 association to this, the first entry of associates 

 upon the roll of the association. According 

 to the prescribed rule, associates have all the. 

 privileges of the meeting for which they are 

 registered, except voting. These privileges 

 are considered to include the right to present 

 papers at that meeting, but associates do not 

 receive the joui'nal Science, which is sent to 

 members. The funds secured by the payment 

 of associateship fees wlU be used partly to 

 defray a portion of the expenses of the meet- 

 ing and partly for sending circulars and in- 

 vitations to prospective members during the 

 following year. Members will not fail to ap- 

 preciate the fine spirit shown by associates in 

 making this contribution to the funds avail- 

 able for cuiTent expenses. This first roll of 

 associates was secured through the very admir- 

 able work of the local subcommittee on mem- 



bership, Mr. H. V. F. Jones, chairman, and the 

 thanks of the association are especially due to 

 Mr. Jones and the other members. It is 

 planned that future publications of the mem- 

 bership list will include lists of the associates 

 registered for each meeting. 



BuETON E. Livingston, 

 Permanent Secretary. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



At the Amherst meeting of the Geological 

 Society of America, Professor Charles Sehu- 

 chert, of Tale University, was elected presi- 

 dent. As vice-presidents were elected: Dr. 

 Henry S. Washington, Geophysical Labora- 

 tory of the Carnegie Institution of Washing- 

 ton; Dr. Robert T. Hill, Los Angeles, Cali- 

 fornia; Dr. W. D. Matthew, of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, New York City; 

 Professor T. L. Walker, of the University of 

 Toronto, and Dr. Edmund Otis Hovey, of the 

 American Museum of Natural History. 



The American Society of Zoologists, meeting 

 at Toronto, elected as president Professor Har- 

 ris Hawthorne Wilder, of Smith College. Pro- 

 fessor Bennet M. Allen, of the University of 

 Kansas, was elected vice-president. 



At the New Haven meeting of the American 

 Association of Anatomists, Professor Clarence 

 M. Jackson, of the University of Minnesota, 

 was elected president, and Professor Harold 

 D. Senior, of New York University, was 

 elected vice-president. 



John Ripley Feeeman, of Providence, R. I., 

 was elected president of the American Society 

 of CivU Engineers at the first session of its 

 sixty-ninth annual meeting held in New York 

 on January 18. Honorary memberships were 

 conferred upon Charles Prosper Eugene 

 Schneider of Paris, Luigi Luiggi of Rome, 

 Samuel Rea, president of the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad, Howard Swasey and Howard A. 

 Carson. 



De. Hideyo NoGuchi, member of the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research, was 

 elected to honorary membership in the Society 

 of Dermatology and Venereology of Moscow 

 at its thirtieth annual meeting on October 16. 



