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The Botanical Society of America. — December 

 31-January 3. President, Professor L. E. Jones, 

 University of Wisconsin ; secretary, Dr. George T. 

 Moore, Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo. 



Botanists of the Central States. — Betiveen De- 

 cember 30 and January 4. President, Professor 

 T. H. Macbride, University of Iowa; secretary. 

 Professor Henry C. Cowles, University of Chicago, 

 Chicago, 111. 



The American Phytopathological Society. — De- 

 cember 31-January 3. President, Dr. G. P. Clin- 

 ton, New Haven Agricultural Experiment Station; 

 secretary. Dr. C. L. Shear, Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. C. 



The American Nature-Study Society. — December 

 30-31. President, Professor Benjamin M. Davis, 

 Miami University; secretary. Dr. Elliot E. Down- 

 ing, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 



The Association of Official Seed Analysts. — Jan- 

 uary 2. President, Dr. E. H. Jenkins, New Haven, 

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

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



The Society for Horticultural Science. — Decem- 

 ber 31. President, W. T. Macoun, Ottawa, Can- 

 ada; secretary, C. P. Close, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



American Association, of Official Horticultural 

 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 FoVc-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, Eandolph-Macon College, 

 Ashland, Va. 



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The Geological Society of America. — December 

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

 Eochester University; secretary. Dr. Edmund Otis 

 Hovey, American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City. 



The Association of American Geographers. — 

 December 27-30. President, Professor Eollin 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. E. S. Bassler, U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, Washington, D. C. 



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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. 

 Doteu, 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 E. Seager, Columbia University; secretary, 

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

 City. 



The American Home Economics Association. — 

 December 30-31. President, Miss Isabel Bevier, 

 University of Illinois; secretary, Benjamin E. 

 Andrews, Teachers College, Columbia University, 

 New York City. 



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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. 



The American Philosophical Association. — De- 

 cember 26-28. President, Professor Prank Thilly, 

 Cornell University; secretary, Professor Edward 

 G. Spaulding, Princeton University, Princeton, 

 N. J. 



