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SCIENCE 



[N. S. A'OL. XLIX. No. 1257 



42,000 Pittsburgh, Shaw- 

 mut and Northern Rail- 

 road first mortgage 4 

 per cent, bonds, due 



I'etouary 1, 1952 4, 200.00 $ 25,740.00 



$iF97)00 $112,777 .50 



I certify that I have audited the accounts of the 

 treasurer of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science for the period December 

 15, 1917, to December 16, 1918; that the securities 

 representing the investments of the association 

 have been exhibited and verified; and that the in- 

 come therefrom has been duly accounted for. 



The financial statements accompanying the 

 treasurer's report are in accord with the books of 

 the association and correctly summarize the ac- 

 counts thereof. 



Herbert A. Gill, 



Auditor 



Dated December 23, 1918 



L. 0. HOWARD, PERMANENT SECRETABT, IN ACCOUNT 



WITH THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOB THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



Prom November 1, 1917, to October 31, 1918 

 Dr. 



To balance from last account $ 6,739.26 



To receipts from meniers: 



Annual dues, 1918 $32,809.00 



Annual dues, 1919 208.00 



Annual dues, previous yrs. 312.00 



Admission fees 715.00 



Associate fees 6.00 



Life membership fees 1,247;.00 $35,297.00 



To other receipts: 



Sale of publications 47.50 



Miscellaneous receipts in- 

 cluding treasurer's pay- 

 ment of Science sub- 

 scriptions for life mem- 

 bers, interest, foreign 

 postage, sale of pro- 

 grams, etc _l,700/73 $ 1,748.23 



$43,784.49 



Cr. 



By publications: 



Publishers Science $23,007.48 



Preliminary announce- 

 ment, circulars, forms, 



etc 1,222.50 $24,229.98 



By expenses Pittsburgh meet- 

 ing: 

 Sectional secretaries' com- 

 mutations, accounts, etc. 896.98 

 By expenses Pacific Division. 950.00 

 By expenses Washington 

 office : 

 Salary, permanent sec'y.. .$ 1,500.00 

 Salary, assistant seo'y. ... 2,000.00 



Extra clerical help 1,916.60 



Postage 1,266.24 



Express, telephone and 



telegrams 91.79 



Office equipment 375.30 



Stationery and forms.... 556.15 $ 7,706.08 

 By 7niscellaneous expenses: 

 To treasurer, life member- 

 ship fees $ 2,400.00 



To overpaid dues returned. 26.00 $ 2,426.00 



By balance to new account. . 



$36,209.04 

 7,575.45 



$43,784^9 



The foregoing account has been examined and 

 found correct, the expenditures being supported by 

 proper vouchers. The balance of $7,575.45 is with 

 the following Washington, D. C. banks: 



American Security & Trust Oo $2,327.27 



American National Bank of Washington. 3,243.28 

 American National Bank of Washington 



(Savings Department) 2,004.90 



$7,575.45 



Herbert A. Gill, 



Auditor 



Washington, D. C. 

 December 18, 1918 



SECTION E— GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY 



Section E of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science met this year in conjunc- 

 tion with the Geological Society of America and 

 the Association of American Geographers in the 

 Civil Engineering building of Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, Baltimore, on December 27 ^nd 28. Fol- 

 lowing the present agreement whereby the afBliated 

 societies take charge of the program whenever they 

 meet jointly with Section E, the section had no 

 program of its own. The address of the retiring 

 vice-president. Professor George H. Perkins, of the 

 University of Vermont, upon the subject, ""Ver- 

 mont physiography," was delivered on the evening 

 of December 28 at the annual dinner of the Geo- 

 logiical Society of America held in the Southern 

 Hotel. It will be published in Science. The 

 papers of the general sessions will appear in the 

 Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Vol. 

 30, and in the Annals of the Association of Ameri- 

 can Geographers, Vol. 9. 



Dr. C. K. Ledth, of the University of Wisconsin, 

 was elected vice-president of the association and 

 chairman of Section E for the coming year ; Dr. H. 

 A. Buehler, state geologist of Missouri, member of 

 the council; Dr. W. W. Atwood, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, member of the Sectional Committee for 

 five years, and Frank W. DeWolf , state geologist of 

 Illinois, member of the general committee. 



EoLLiN T. Chamberlin, 



Secretary 



