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Conn.; secretary, E. Brown, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



American Association of Official HorticulturaZ 

 Inspectors. — January 2-3. President, Dr. T. J. 

 Headley, New Brunswick, N. J.; secretary, T. B. 

 Symons, College Park, Md. 



The American Anthropological Association. — 

 December 30-January 3. President, Dr. J. Walter 

 Fewkes, Bureau of Ethnology; secretary, Pro- 

 fessor George Grant MaoCurdy, Yale University, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



The American FolTc-Lore Society. — January 1. 

 President, John A. Lomax, University of Texas; 

 secretary. Dr. Charles Peabody, Peabody Museum, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



The American Psychological Association. — De- 

 cember 30-January 1. President, Professor Ed- 

 ward L. Thorndike, Columbia University; secre- 

 tary, W. Van Dyke Bingham, Dartmouth College, 

 Hanover, N. H. 



The Sigma Xi Convention. — January 2. Presi- 

 dent, Professor Henry T. Eddy, University of 

 Minnesota; secretary. Dr. Dayton C. Miller, Case 

 School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Gamma Alpha Graduate Scientific Fraternity. — 

 December 31. President, Professor William 

 Crocker, University of Chicago; secretary, Pro- 

 fessor H. E. Howe, Bandolph-Macon College, 

 Ashland, Va. 



NEW HAVEN 



The Geological Society of America. — December 

 28-31. President, Professor H. L. Fairchild, 

 Rochester University; secretary. Dr. Edmund Otia 

 Hovey, American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City. 



The Association of American Geographers. — 

 December 27-30. President, Professor Rollin D. 

 Salisbury, University of Chicago; secretary. Pro- 

 fessor Albert Perry Brigham, Hamilton, N. Y. 



The Paleontological Society. — December 30-31. 

 President, David White, U. S. Geological Survey; 

 secretary, Dr. R. S. Bassler, U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, Washington, D. C. 



BOSTON 



The American Economic Association. — December 

 27-31. President, Professor Frank A. Fetter, 

 Princeton University; secretary. Professor T. N. 

 Carver, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



The American Statistical Association. — Decem- 

 ber 27-30. President, Professor Walter F. Will- 

 cox, Cornell University; secretary, Carroll W. 

 Doten, 491 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. 



The American Sociological Society. — ^December 

 27-31. President, Professor Albion W. Small, 

 University of Chicago; secretary, Scott E. W. 

 Bedford, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 



The American Association for Labor Legisla- 

 tion. — December 27-28. President, Professor 

 Henry R. Seager, Columbia University; secretary, 

 Dr. John B. Andrews, 131 East 23d St., New York 

 City. 



The American Some Economics Association. — 

 December 30-31. President, Miss Isabel Bevier, 

 University of Illinois; secretary, Benjamin R. 

 Andrews, Teachers College, Columbia University, 

 New York City. 



NEW YOEK CITY 



The Society of American Bacteriologists. — De- 

 cember 31-January 2. President, Dr. Wm. H. 

 Park, New York City; secretary, Charles E. Mar- 

 shall, Amherst, Mass. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 



PHILOSOPHICAL SOCEETT, UNIVERSITY OP VIEGINIA. 

 MATHEMATICAL AND SCIENTIPIO SECTION 



The second meeting of the session 1912-13 of 

 the Mathematical and Scientific Section was held 

 October 22, 8:00 p.m. 



Professor F. P. Dunnington read a paper on 

 "The Grinding of Cornmeal for Bread." Pro- 

 fessor Dunnington also made a report of Professor 

 H. A. Bernthsen's method of making ammonia. 



Dr. Graham Edgar presented reviews of Pro- 

 fessor Samuel Eyde's paper on "The Oxidation 

 of Atmospheric Nitrogen and the Development of 

 Resulting Industries in Norway," and of Pro- 

 fessor W. M. Perkin 's paper on ' ' Synthetic 

 Rubber. ' ' 



Wm. a. Kepneb, 



Secretary 



University of Virginia 



the elisha mitchell scientific societt 



At the 201st meeting of the society held No- 

 vember 12 in Chemistry Hall, University of North 

 Carolina, the following papers were presented: 



"The Physiological Action of Hsematin, " by 

 Dr. W. H. Brown. 



' ' Forestry for Eastern North Carolina Lumber- 

 men, " by Mr. J. S. Holmes. 



James M. Bell, 

 Recording Secretary 



Chapel Hill, N. C. 



