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new piembers of the A. M. A. to join the more 

 general association, as they have the privilege 

 of doing according to the rules for affiliated 

 societies of the A. A. A. S., and the special 

 privilege is now made geiaeral to all members 

 of the A. M. A., without reference to when 

 they joined. 



(4) It was voted that the permanent secre- 

 tary should prepare an invitation letter to be 

 sent (about October 1) to each inember of the 

 American Medical Association resident in New 

 England, Iowa and Oregon, asking him to be- 

 come a member of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science if he is not already 

 a member; these special invitations are to be 

 signed by the president of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science (Dr. 

 J. Playfair McMurrioh), the chairman of the 

 Executive Committee of the Council (Dr. 

 Simon Flexner), the permanent secretary and 

 several others. It is planned that a special 

 invitation of this kind shall be sent to other 

 American Medical Association members resi- 

 dent in other regions next year, etc., the entire 

 list of the Medical Association being cared for 

 in perhaps four or five years. 



(5) The budget for the current year was 

 increased by the following items : Salaries, 

 $180; printing, $520; summer meeting, $500. 



(6) The permanent secretary was asked to 

 secure good, readable reports of the meetings of 

 all sections and of their related societies at the 

 fourth Boston meeting, to have these published 

 in Science about the last week of January, 

 1923, and to have this special issue of the jour- 

 nal sent to all members who do not receive 

 Science regularly. The retiring president's 

 address is to be published in the first issue of 

 Science after the meeting, and reprints of this 

 are to be made available, on request, to mem- 

 bers who do not regularly receive the journal. 

 It is planned that members in good standing 

 who do not attend the annual meeting may 

 receive copies of the general program, if they 

 request them from the permanent secretary's 

 office before the meeting. 



(7) The making of arrangements for a speak- 

 er for one of the evening sessions of the sum- 

 mer meeting at Salt Lake City was referred to 

 the general secretary with power. 



(8) Dr. D. T. MacDougal reported that the 



committee on Cooperation with Mexican Men 

 of Science recommends that Dr. E. L. Hewett, 

 of the School of American Research, Santa Fe, 

 N. M., be appointed special commissioner to 

 consult with officials of the Mexican govern- 

 ment regarding the organization of Mexican 

 men of science. Dr. Hewett was appointed and 

 was I'equested to serve the association in this 

 capacity on his forthcoming trip to the City 

 of Mexico. A committee consisting of Drs. 

 Howard and MacDougal was instructed to pre- 

 pare a suitable letter of credentials for the use 

 of Dr. Hewett, this to be addressed to the 

 Secretario de Agricultura y Fomento, to be 

 engrossed, and to bear the seal of the associa- 

 tion. 



(9) It was voted that the expenses of the 

 Committee on Grants be paid from the funds 

 in charge of the permanent secretary. 



(10) Dr. T. Wingate Todd, Western Reserve 

 University, Cleveland, Ohio, was elected vice- 

 president for Section H (Anthropology). 



(11) Dr. Bird T. Baldwin, Iowa Child Wel- 

 fare Research Station, State University of 

 Iowa, Iowa City, was elected vice-president for 

 Section Q (Education). 



(12) The election of Dr. S. C. Prescott as 

 chairman of the local committee for the fourth 

 Boston meeting was ratified. 



(13) Thirty-three members were elected to 

 fellowship, on proper nominations. 



(14) The resignation of Mr. Herbert A. Gill, 

 auditor of the association, was accepted with 

 regret, and with great appreciation of the very 

 valuable services he has given the association 

 in past years, and the permanent secretary was 

 instructed to secure an auditor, preferably a 

 well-known scientist, the clerical expense to be 

 met by the permanent secretary's office. 



(15) The Committee on Convocation Week 

 was completed so that it is corustituted as fol- 

 lows : Dr. J. McK. Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, 

 N. Y., chairman; Dr. E. H. Moore, University 

 of Chicago, III; Dr. J. P. McMurrich, Univer- 

 sity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Dr. H. S. 

 Jennings, Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 

 more, Md. ; and Dr. Edwin B. Wilson, Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



(16) The Canadian Society of Technical 

 Agriculturists was constituted an affiliated soci- 



