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SCIENCE 



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Liberal round-trip summer rates will be avail- 

 able for those wisliing to proceed beyond Salt 

 Lake City, with stop-over privileges at that 

 point and elsewhere. Local railway agents 

 should be consulted for exact information. 



Some of the features of the varied program 

 of the meeting are the following : A conference 

 on "Research Problems of the Great Basin" 

 will be held at noon on Thursday, June 22. 

 Dr. John A. "Widtsoe, past president of the 

 University of Utah, will lead the discussion, 

 and delegates from Pacific Coast institutions 

 will take part. President Evermann's address 

 Thursday evening will be on "The Conserva- 

 tion and Proper Utilization of our Natural 

 Resources." Following this address there will 

 be a general reception. 



The afternoon of Friday will be devoted to 

 a symposium on "The Problems of the Colorado 

 River," with the following titles, several of 

 which represent changes made in the program 

 since the publication of the preliminary an- 

 nouncement: (1) "Description and physiog- 

 raphy of the Colorado River Basin," Dr. Fred- 

 erick J. Pack, Deseret professor, department 

 of geology. University of Utah; (2) "Geology 

 of the Colorado River Basin with reference to 

 the engineering problem," Professor Bailey 

 Willis, professor of geology, Leland Stanford, 

 Jr., University, (3) "The vegetation of the 

 Colorado River Drainage Basin," Dr. Frederic 

 E. Clements, Carnegie Institution of Washing- 

 ton; (4) "The Algerian Sahara," Professor 

 E. V. Gautier, Faculty of Letters, University 

 of Algiers, and exchange professor, Harvard 

 Univer.sity; (5) "The conservation of the 

 waters of the Colorado River from the stand- 

 point of the reclamation service," Mr. Prank 

 E. Weymouth, chief engineer. United States 

 Reclamation Service; (6) "The interstate and 

 international aspects of the Colorado River 

 problem," Dr. C. E. Grunsky, vice-president of 

 the Pacific Division, American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, 

 California. 



All members of the association and of the 

 affiliated societies should attend the banquet 

 Friday evening, at which an address will be 

 given by the distinguished writer and student 

 of human evolution, Professor James Harvey 



Robinson, of the New School of Social Science, 

 New York City. 



Saturday will be devoted to excursions and 

 entertainment. A free organ recital will be 

 given in the Tabernacle, and there will be a 

 trip to the famous Saltair bathing beach. In 

 the evening Dr. J. E. Broaddus will give an 

 illustrated lecture entitled "From the Grand 

 Canyon to the Yellowstone." 



The distinguished Dutch evolutionist, Dr. 

 J. P. Lotsy, of the Holland Society of Science 

 in Haarlem, is expected to give a talk on evolu- 

 tion, probably on Thursday. 



The regular section organizations of the 

 association will not hold sessions at the Salt 

 Lake City meeting, but many scientific societies 

 and groups of workers will present programs. 

 Among these are the American Physical Soci- 

 ety, the American Meteorological Society, the 

 Pacific Division of the American Phytopatho- 

 logieal Society, the Cooper Ornithological Club, 

 the Ecological Society of America, the Pacific 

 Coast Entomological Society, the Pacific Slope 

 Branch of the American Association of Eco- 

 nomic Entomologists, the Plant Phj^siologists, 

 the Society of American Foresters, the Western 

 Psychological Association, the Western Society 

 of Naturalists, the Agronomists and Soil Ex- 

 perts. 



Correspondence regarding the preparations 

 for the summer meeting should be addressed to 

 Mr. W. W. Sargeant, secretary of the Pacific 

 Division, A. A. A. S., Golden Gate Park, San 

 Francisco. 



Burton E. Livingston, 

 Permanent Secretary 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



THE SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD 



MEMORIAL 



A NATIONAL movement has been inaugurated 

 in Washington to commemorate on February 3, 

 1923, the one hundredth anniversary of the 

 birth of Spencer Fullerton Baird. Through a 

 local organizing committee of twenty-six mem- 

 bers, of which Dr. Hugh M. Smith is chairman 

 and Dr. Paul Bartsch is secretary, a permanent 

 national organization has been effected with the 

 following olfieers : Honorary president, Dr. 

 William H. Dall, Washington, D. C. ; presi- 



