January 19, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



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portance if true, but serious doubts have 

 been cast upon their accuracy so that they 

 have not been at all generally accepted. 



William McPheeson 

 Ohio State Universitt 



(To be concluded) 



THE COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED 

 ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF THE 

 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR 

 THE ADVANCEMENT OF 

 SCIENCE 

 The cominittee held its fourth meeting at 

 the Hotel Belmont, 'New York City, convening 

 shortly after two o'clock on the afternoon of 

 December 26, 1916. Mr. Pickering was in the 

 chair and others recorded as present were: 



Eaymond F. Baeon, Franz Boas, N. L. Britton, 

 Alfred H. Brooks, Ernest W. Brown, Walter B. 

 Cannon, J. J. Carty, J. McK. Cattell, C. E. Cross, 

 Chas. B. Davenport, W. M. Davis, Henry H. Don- 

 aldson, H. L. Fairehild, Irving Hardesty, G. Eoss 

 Harrison, L. O. Howard, Ales Hrdlieka, W. J. 

 Humphreys, Edward Kasner, A. E. Kennelly, 

 Irving Langmuir, Berthold Laufer, Frederic S. 

 Lee, Jacques Loeb, D. T. MaeDougal, J. C. Mer- 

 riam, G. A. Miller, T. H. Morgan, H. V. Neal, Edw. 

 L. Nichols, A. A. Noyes, Richard M. Pearce, M. I. 

 Pupin, Jos. W. Eichards, F. K. Eichtmyer, Peyton 

 Eou^, H. N. Eussell, Frank Schlesinger, Geo. Otis 

 Smith, J. Stieglitz, Chas. E. Stockard, E. L. 

 Thorndike, A. M. Tozzer, Charles E. Van Hise, 

 John B. Watson, A. G. Webster, David White, W. 

 E. Whitney, Edmund B. Wilson, W. M. Wheeler, 

 E. M. Yerkes. 



After introductoi-y remarks by the chairman, 

 the secretary reported that, since the organiza- 

 tion of the committee at Atlanta four years 

 ago, it had lost by death: Charles E. Bessey, 

 professor of botany, University of ^Nebraska; 

 Theodore Gill, professor of zoology, George 

 Washington University; Karl E. Guthe, pro- 

 fessor of physics, University of Michigan; 

 Joseph A. Holmes, chief of the Bureau of 

 Mines, Washington, D. 0. ; Charles. S. Minot, 

 professor of comparative anatomy. Harvard 

 Medical School, and F. W. Putnam, professor 

 emeritus of anthropology. Harvard Univer- 

 sity. There had been added to the committee : 

 Eaymond F. Bacon, director of the Mellon 



Institute for Industrial Research, the Univer- 

 sity of Pittsburgh; W. B. Cannon, professor 

 of physiology, Harvard Medical School, and 

 John C. Merriam, professor of paleontology, 

 the University of California. 



Since the meeting last year at Columbus the 

 following subcommittees in different sciences 

 had been appointed: 



Mathematics: G. A. Miller, Chairman, Edward 

 Kasner, E. H. Moore, W. F. Osgood, E. B. Van 

 Vleck. 



Astronomy: Edward C. Pickering, Chairman, E. 

 W. Brown, E. B. Frost, H. N. Eussell, F. Schles- 

 inger. 



Physics: Arthur G. Webster, Chairman, C. E. Men- 

 denhall, Ernest Merritt, E. A. Millikan, M. I. 

 Pupin. 



Chemistry: Julius Stieglitz, Chairman, I. Lang- 

 muir, G. N. Lewis, W. A. Noyes, T. W. Eichards. 



Engineering: A. E. Kennelly, Chairman, J. W. 

 Eichards, A. Sauveur, A. N. Talbot, C. C. 

 Thomas. 



Geology and Geography: Wm. M. Davis, Chairman, 

 Alfred H. Brooks, L. C. Glenn, C. K. Leith, 

 Bailey Willis. 



Botany: George T. Moore, Chairman, D. H. Camp- 

 bell, E. A. Harper, L. E. Jones, B. E. Livingston. 



Zoology : Edwin G. Conklin, Chairman, F. E. LiUie, 

 T. H. Morgan, G. H. Parker, Jacob Eeighard. 



Anatomy: Eoss G. Harrison, Chairman, F. P. Mall, 

 C. E. Stockard, C. M. Jackson, Irving Hardesty. 



Pathology: Eichard M. Pearce, Chairman, Theo- 

 dore C. Janeway, Eugene L. Opie, Peyton Eous, 

 H. Gideon Wells. 



Physiology : W. B. Cannon, Chairman, Joseph Er- 

 langer, Theodore Hough, Frederic S. Lee, Walter 

 J. Meek. 



Psychology : J. McKeeu Cattell, Chairman, C. E. 

 Seashore, E. L. Thorndike, John B. Watson, 

 Eobert M. Yerkes. 



Anthropology : Franz Boas, Chairman, A. Hrdlieka, 

 Alfred L. Kroeber, Berthold Laufer, Alfred M. 

 Tozzer. 



Reports were presented by the chairmen of 

 nearly all the subeonunittees. The report of 

 the subcommittee on industrial research, pre- 

 sented by Mr. Bacon, was a special order, and 

 by invitation was discussed by Mr. J. J. Carty, 

 chairman of a committee of similar scope of 

 the National Research Council and by Mr. F. 

 K. Richtmyer, secretary of a corresponding 

 committee of the American Physical Society. 



