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No other nominations were presented and these 

 men were duly elected. 



The executive committee announced the ap- 

 pointment of Aaron L. Treadwell and A. A. 

 Schaeffer as members of the advisory board for 

 the ensuing four years. The other members of 

 this board are: To serve one year, M. M. Met- 

 ealf and Gary N. Calkins; to serve two years, 

 William E. Castle and F. E. Lillie ; to serve three 

 years, C. A. Kofoid and D. H. Tennent. 



S. I. Kornhauser, who has been representing 

 the society in cooperation with a committee from 

 the American Bacteriological Society, in an 

 attempt to standardize American dyes for 

 biological purposes, requested members to forward 

 any information at their disposal concerning the 

 comparative merits of American and imported 

 dyes. He has on hand a considerable amount of 

 information regarding American dyes which is 

 available for any one interested. 



The society approved the resolutions adopted 

 by an intersociety conference called at Toronto by 

 the Division of Biology and Agriculture of the 

 National Eesearch Council as a result of a request 

 from representatives of the Botanical Society of 

 America, the American Society of Naturalists 

 and the American Society of Zoologists. 



These resolutions call for the appointing of the 

 presidents and secretaries of the societies con- 

 cerned as an intersociety council to whom shall be 

 referred matters of common interest and who 

 shall studj^ plans for and report a possible con- 

 stitution of a proposed federation of American 

 biological societies. 



As a result of many conferences among those 

 interested the f ollo-ning action was taken creating 

 a Section on Genetics in the society: 



Moved, That authorization be given for the 

 formation of a Genetics Section of the American 

 Society of Zoologists to cooperate with a similar 

 section established in the Botanical Society of 

 America. 



It shall be understood that any member of tlie 

 American Society of Zoologists may become a 

 member of the Genetics Section by indication of 

 liis desire to that effect. 



Any member of the society submitting a paper 

 on genetics has the right to have it included in 

 the program of the Genetics Section. 



The Genetics Section may designate one of its 

 members as a consulting member of the executive 

 committee of the American Society of Zoologists. 



The Section was duly organized. 



After considerable discussion, the parasitol- 

 ogists assembled at Toronto decided not to or- 

 ganize a section at present, but appointed Charles 



A. Kofoid their representative, with B. M. Ean- 

 som alternate, to attend the proposed conference 

 on the organization of a biological federation and 

 to urgently request the conference to arrange that 

 there could be membership in the proposed Section 

 of Parasitology of men not eligible at present for 

 membership in the American Society of Zoologists. 

 A communication was received from the Eco- 

 logical Society of America asking for financial 

 aid in classifying the degree of modification from 

 primeval conditions of the animal life in the 

 different national, state and local preserved areas. 

 Twenty-five dollars was voted for this purpose. 



GENERAL RESOLUTIONS 



The following resolution was adopted and 

 ordered sent to the appropriate officials: 



The American Society of Zoologists, under- 

 standing that there is a temporary suspension of 

 certain scientific publications of the U. S. govern- 

 ment, including the Journal of Agricultural Me- 

 search, the Experiment Station Record and the 

 Monthly Weather Meports, desires to put on 

 record its very high appreciation of these journals 

 and of their great national and international 

 importance in the field of natural science and 

 would respectfully urge their resumption at as 

 early a date as possible. 



The following resolution was adopted: 

 Sesolved, That the secretary express to the 

 president of the University of Toronto and the 

 local committee on arrangements the high appre- 

 ciation of the American Society of Zoologists for 

 the splendid facilities afforded this meeting and 

 for the cordial hospitality shown the members 

 attending. 



The sessions for the prsentation and discussion 

 of papers were better attended than usual in 

 spite of the fact that the society frequently met 

 in sections on account of the length of the pro- 

 gram. The symposium on ' ' Orthogenesis, ' ' the 

 dinner, and the biological smoker, arranged by the 

 zoologists, were particularly well attended. In 

 point of numbers attending, the smoker was one 

 of the outstanding features of the meeting. 



The presence of Professor William Bateson gave 

 a cosmopolitan flavor to the internatiou'l meeting. 

 The invitation to Professor Bateson w; 3 initiated 

 by the American Society of Zoologists, and his 

 presence was due to the cooperation of the Society 

 with the American Association. 



A full list of titles and abstracts of the papers 

 presented together with a more complete account 

 of the business transacted will appear in the 

 January number of The Anatomical Becord. 



W. C. Allee, 

 Secretary. 



