Apeil 28, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



M9 



S. A. Courtis, C. H. Griffitts, G. M. Whipple, 

 Helen B. T. Wooley. 



Illinois: Walter Dill Seott, chairman; Frank 

 N. Freeman (University of Chicago), secretary; 

 Madison Bentley, Elmer E. Jones, Charles H. 

 Judd, E. S. Robinson. 



In addition to the branches that have been 

 definitely established by the psychologists of the 

 states named and approved by the executive 

 committee of the directors of the corporation, 

 other branches are in course of organization. 



All members of the American Psychological 

 Association who are interested directly or indi- 

 rectly in the applications of psychology, as 

 well as other competent psychologists approved 

 by the branches, may be members of the 

 branches. Correspondence in regard to the 

 Psychological Corporation in the states named 

 should be addressed to the secretaries of the 

 executive committees. 



GEOGRAPHICAL MEETING IN NEW YORK 

 CITY 



The sixth joint meeting of the American 

 Geographical Society and the Association of 

 American Geographers will be held in New 

 York, Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29. 

 The sessions will be held at the Exhibition 

 Room of the American Geographical Society, 

 Broadway at 156th Street. Professor Harlan 

 H. Barix)ws, president of the association, will 

 preside at the sessions. The joint meeting will 

 be called to order on Friday morning by Mr. 

 John Greenough, president of the American 

 Geographical Society. 



The Belleclaire Hotel, at the corner of Broad- 

 way and 77th Street, will be headquarters for 

 association members. The American Geograph- 

 ical Society has against invited the members 

 of the association and invited speakers to be 

 their guests from Thursday afternoon to Sat- 

 urday noon. Non-members, as always, will be 

 cordially welcomed to all program sessions. 



Space in the Exhibition Room has been re- 

 served for an exhibit, by members of the asso- 

 ciation of new maps and diagi-ams. Members 

 are urged to send any geographical material 

 they desire to have displayed in advance of 

 the meeting. The noon hour each day gives an 

 opportunity to discuss materials on exhibit. 



an opportunity that has proved vei-y helpful 

 in the past. . 



The society's building can be reached by the 

 uptown subway train marked Broadway and 

 Seventh Avenue Express, Van Cortlandt Park, 

 or Dyckman Street, or 215th Street, from any 

 Broadway station. The 72nd Street subway 

 express station is five blocks south of the hotel; 

 the 79th Street local station is two blocks north. 

 At certain hours change must be made from a 

 local to an express train at 96th Street. 



The progi-am is as follows : 



Friday Morning Session 

 Vilhjalmur -Stefansson: Colonizing the lands be- 

 yond the treeline. 

 Alfred H. Brooks: The future of Alaska. 

 H. N. Whitford: Present and prospective use of 



tropical lands and tropical forests as illustrated 



by the Philippines. 



Friday Afternoon Session 

 Oliver E. Baker; The problem of land utilization 



and its geographic aspects. 

 Carl 0. Sauer: The problem of the cut-over pine 



lands of Michigan. 

 Hugh H. Bennett: The soils of the Southeastern 



States and their utilization. 



Friday Evening 

 Round Table Conference: Methods and problems 



in the study of land utiUzatien. 



Saturday Morning Session 

 E. P. Gautier (University of Algiers) : Native 



life in French North Africa. 

 H. A. Brouwer (Delft Technical Institute) ; 



Physical features of the Dutch East Indies. 

 C. W. Bishop: Geographical factors in the early 



culture development of Japan. 



SIGMA XI AT McGILL UNIVERSITY 



The thirty-sixth chapter of Sigma Xi was 

 installed on April 13 at McGill University, 

 Montreal. This event marks an epoch in the 

 society's progress inasmuch as the McGill 

 chapter is the first one to be established outside 

 the United States. It is expected that there 

 will soon be other petitions from the Dominion, 

 and that Canadian institutions will fake an 

 active part in the society's affairs. 



The charter membership of the new chapter 

 comprises 41, including representatives of both 

 pure and applied science and medicine. Four 

 of the members are also fellows of the Royal 



