June 



1922] 



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683 



resignations, and 705 names were dropped 

 (October 1) because of over two years of ar- 

 rearage); the total loss was 1,037. Four mem- 

 bers were transferred from annual to life mem- 

 bership. The net gain in total membership, 

 for the half-year, is 105. The membership data 

 for the last year and a half are tabulated 

 below : 



Sept. March Sept. March 

 30, 31, 30, 31, 



1920 1921 1921 1922 

 No. of members in 



good standing.. 10,002 9,637 10,160 9,911 

 Total enrollment.. 11,442 11,524 11,.547 11,652 



It is clear that the membership is gradually 

 increasing, but there still remain many persons 

 in the United States and Canada who are vitally 

 interested in scientific and educational progress 

 but who are not yet enrolled in the association. 

 Members of the association should do all in 

 their power to increase the membership and 

 thus streng'then the organization. 



A local branch of the association was organ- 

 ized in the fall of 1921 and is in successful 

 operation. This is the State College (Pennsyl- 

 vania) Local Branch. Its officers are: chair- 

 man, A. J. Wood; secretary, J. Ben Hill. It 

 has an enrollment of 53 members of the asso- 

 ciation. Fifteen new members have been 

 secured through its activities. The State College 

 Branch holds occasional meetings throughout 

 the year. 



Plans for the summer meeting of the asso- 

 eiation, jointly with the Pacific Division, which 

 is to occur at Salt Lake City, June 22-24, 

 1922, are progressing satisfactorily. Details 

 of these plans are in charge of Mr. W. W. 

 Sargeant, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 

 secretary of the Pacific Division, and the gen- 

 eral secretary of the association. Dr. D. T. 

 MacDougal, Carmel, California. The chairman 

 of the local committee for the Salt Lake City 

 meeting is Professor E. G. Titus, 215 S. Third 

 East, Salt Lake City, Utah. 



Card lists of all the members enrolled in each 

 section of the association have been prepared 

 and will soon be in the hands of the secretaries 

 of the respective sections, together with a steel 

 cabinet for each set of cards. These section 

 lists v/ill be kept continually corrected, by 



means of cards sent out from the permanent 

 secretary's office. Each member's addressograph 

 plate now shows, besides his name and address 

 and the formula of his membership status, one, 

 two, or three letters denoting the section or sec- 

 tions in which he is enrolled. Thus, ABD indi- 

 cates that the member on whose plate this letter 

 combination appears is enrolled in Sections A, 

 B and D, and a corresponding card is found in 

 each of the three section lists. When a member 

 lias indicated more than three sections as his 

 preferences, the first three on his list have been 

 indicated on the plate. In cases where no sec- 

 tion has been named by a member, it has been 

 impossible to enroll him in any isartioular sec- 

 tion, and he is regarded as a menrber of the 

 association in general. When members receive 

 cards, etc., from the permanent secretary's 

 office, they are requested to scrutinize the ad- 

 dressograph impression and inform the office 

 if any corrections are needed with respect to 

 their section enrollment. 



Financially, the association is more than 

 holding its own. The permanent secretary's 

 reserve or emergency fund amounted (on 

 March 31) to $5,855.09, $1,500 having been 

 transferred to this fund on March 25. Of this, 

 $1,000 is specially reserved from the current 

 funds of 1922 for meeting the extra expense 

 of publishing the next volume of Summarized 

 Proceedings, which is to appear in the spring 

 of 1925, following the next four-yearly (Wash- 

 ington) meeting. After all liabilities are cared 

 for, over $2,000 is available (March 31, 1922) 

 for appropriation from the current funds of 

 the present fiscal year, which ends October 1, 

 1022. 



SECTION M— ENGINEERING AND ASSO- 

 CIATED SOCIETIES 



The resuscitation of Section M at the recent 

 Toronto meeting of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science resulted in a 

 program of considerable length and much 

 diversity. The attendance was good, and the 

 , interest was sustained to the end. Sir Clifford 

 Sifton, formerly chairman of the Commission 

 of Conservation, Canada, gave the opening ad- 

 dress on Tuesday afternoon, his subject being 

 "Some Views on the Development of the Nat- 



