November 22, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



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into partnership with the trustees in the 

 government and administration of the uni- 

 versity by means of college councils com- 

 posed of representatives of both be adopted 

 by the board of trustees at the earliest prac- 

 ticable date. Some features of the scheme 

 may need modification, but it will be easy 

 to determine what/ changes are advisable 

 after trustees and professors have got to- 

 gether in councils for the transaction of the 

 business of the different collegiate units of 

 the university. 



A further step in the same direction 

 should also be taken at the present time. 

 Under the existing statutes the deans of the 

 faculties of arts and sciences and of the 

 graduate school are appointed by the board 

 of trustees on the nomination of the presi- 

 dent. The faculty has indeed some voice 

 in the matter, for it votes on the nomination 

 of the president and sends the record of its 

 vote to the board of trustees. But the time 

 has arrived when the right of the faculty to 

 select its own chief officer should be recog- 

 nized and confirmed. The president recom- 

 mends that the statute be amended so as to 

 invest the faculty with exclusive power in 

 this regard. The faculty would of course 

 report its action to the trustees. 



J. G. SCHUKMAN 



TSE CLEVELAND CONVOCATION WEEK 

 MEETING 

 The sixty-fourth meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 and the eleventh of the " Convocation week " 

 meetings, will be held in Cleveland from 

 December 30, 1912, to January 4, 1913. The 

 first general session of the association will be 

 called to order at 10 a.m. on Monday, Decem- 

 ber 30, by the retiring president, Dr. Charles 

 E. Bessey, who will introduce the president of 

 the meeting. Dr. Edward C. Pickering. After 

 addresses of welcome and a reply by President 

 Pickering, announcements will be made by 

 secretaries. The general session will then 



adjourn and the sections will be organized in 

 their respective halls. Where sections have 

 programs, the reading of papers will begin 

 after organization and will be continued in 

 the mornings and afternoons of the following 

 days. The council will meet on Monday 

 morning, December 30, and each morning, in 

 the council room at 9 o'clock. On Monday 

 evening. Dr. Bessey will give the address of 

 the retiring president, on " Some of the Next 

 Steps in Botanical Science," to be followed by 

 a reception to members of the association and 

 affiliated societies. 



The addresses of retiring vice-presidents 

 before the sections will be as follows : 



Vice-president Frost, before the Section of 

 Mathematics and Astronomy : ' ' The Spectroscopic 

 Determination of Stellar Velocities, considered 

 practically. ' ' 



Vice-president Millikan, before the Section of 

 Physics: "Unitary Theories in Physics." 



Vice-president Cameron, before the Section of 

 Chemistry: "The Chemistry of the Soil." 



Vice-president Shimek, before the Section of 

 Geology and Geography: "Significance of the 

 Pleistocene Mollusks. ' ' 



Vice-president Nachtrieb, before the Section of 

 Zoology: "Section P— Is it Worth While?" 



Vice-president Newcombe, before the Section of 

 Botany: "The Scope of State Natural Surveys." 



Vice-president Ladd, before the Section of An- 

 thropology and Psychology : ' ' The Study of Man. ' ' 



Vice-president Norton, before the Section of 

 Social and Economic Science : ' ' Comparative Meas- 

 urements of the Changing Cost of Living." 



Vice-president Thorndike, before the Section of 

 Education : ' ' Educational Diagnosis. ' ' 



Vice-president Porter, before the Section of 

 Physiology and Experimental Medicine : ' ' On the 

 Function of Individual Cells in Nerve Centers." 



The full program of the meeting, which will 

 include the programs of the affiliated societies, 

 will be issued at the beginning of the meeting 

 and will contain announcements of public 

 lectures, presidential addresses before the dif- 

 ferent societies, discussions and arrangements 

 for joint meetings, together with the times of 

 dinners, smokers and other social functions. 

 Cleveland is in the territory of the Central 

 Passenger Association. Legislative acts hav- 



