Febeuaky 16, 1917] 



SCIENCE 



171 



Washington (State), University of . 17 



Chicago, University of 16 



Harvard University, Medical School. 13 



U. S. Standards, Bureau of 13 



Washington University, St. Louis.. 13 



Missouri, University of 12 



New Hampshire College 12 



New York Agricultural Experiment 



Station, Geneva 11 



Connecticut Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station and Yale Uni- 

 versity 10 



Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege 10 



Princeton University 10 



134 

 234 



73 

 111 

 145 



78 



119 



77 



Institutions represented in 1909-10, only. ... 76 



Institutions represented in 1914-15, only. . . . 198 



Institutions represented in both periods 94 



Total 368 



Of the 198 new contributors in the second 

 period, 89 appear in the Journal of Industrial 

 and Engineering Chemistry only. These are 

 chiefly commercial institutions. 



In 1909-10 three fourths of the papers pub- 

 lished came from educational institutions and 

 in 1914-15 two thirds of the papers came from 

 the same source. The large increase in the 

 amount of work done in research institutions 

 is notable. 



Maeion E. Sparks, 



W. A. NOYES 



THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF 

 NATURALISTS 



The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Society of Naturalists was held at Columbia 

 University, New York, December 29, and at the 

 Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold 

 Spring Harbor, on December 30, 1916. In afiilia- 

 tion with the society this year were the American 

 Association of Anatomists, the American Society 

 of Zoologists and the Botanical Society of Amer- 

 ica. 



The report of the treasurer, stating a balance on 

 hand of $642.80, was accepted. 



The following changes in the constitution, rec- 

 ommended by the executive committee, were au- 

 thorized. 



Article II., Section 2, last sentence to read: The 

 name of any member two years in arrears for an- 

 nual assessments shall be erased from the list of 

 the society, and such person can only regain mem- 

 bership by reelection. 



Article III., Section 1 to read : The officers of the 

 society shall be a president, a vice-president, a 

 secretary and a treasurer. These together with 

 three past presidents and one member elected an- 

 nually from the society at large shall constitute the 

 executive committee of the society. 



Article III., Section 2 to read: The president 

 and vice-president shall be elected for a term of 

 one year, the secretary and the treasurer for a 

 term of three years. Each president on retirement 

 shall serve on the executive committee for three 

 years. The member of the executive committee 

 elected from the society at large shall serve for 

 one year. The election of officers shall take place 

 at the annual meeting of the society, and their 

 official term shall commence at the close of the 

 meeting at which they are elected. 



A recommendation to remove from the constitu- 

 tion section 3 of Article IV. failed to carry. 



A motion that the society shall pay the secretary 

 $50 and the treasurer $25 yearly for their services 

 was laid on the table. 



Eesolutions, bearing on the working plan of the 

 society, were presented by the executive committee 

 and adopted by the society: 



Besolved, that the American Society of Natural- 

 ists, composed as it is of the representatives of the 

 several specialized fields of biology, should have as 

 its constant purpose the furtherance of biological 

 research and education in its broadest sense. 



Besolved further that for the present the Ameri- 

 can Society of Naturalists can best attain this end 

 by three forms of activity. 



First. The holding of an annual dinner affording 

 an opportunity for social contact among those 

 working for the advancement of biology. On this 

 occasion the president of the society shall have an 

 opportunity through the annual address to express 

 himself on a subject of broad biological interest 

 and significance. 



Second. The presentation of a symposium, ar- 

 ranged by the president, on some timely subject 

 or problem relating- to biological sciences. 



Third. The presentation of a program, to con- 

 sist primarily of research papers, on problems of 

 organic evolution. The arrangement of this pro- 

 gram in all respects, including its length, shall be 

 in the hands of the program committee. 



The follovring resolution offered by Edwin G. 

 Conklin was adopted: 



Whereas the National Academy of Sciences, at 

 the request of the President of the United States, 

 has organized a National Research Council for the 

 purpose of promoting and coordinating research 

 work, especially for national welfare, and 



Whereas these are in part the purposes of the 

 American Society of Naturalists, 



Therefore, be it resolved that the American So- 

 ciety of Naturalists approves the organization of 



