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SCIENCE 



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$1,800 for the salary and expenses of tlie associate 

 secretary for the Pacific Coast Division for the 

 coming year and $400 for use in an eifort to in- 

 crease the membership and any sum received from 

 entrance fees in excess of $400 to be devoted to 

 the same purpose. 



Professor Pickering gave a resume of the 

 work of the committee on expert evidence and 

 a report of progress on the vcork of the com- 

 mittee of one hundred on scientific research. 



The following names were added to the 

 Pacific Coast Committee : 



Professor Henry Landes, University of Wash- 

 ington; President Enoch A. Bryan, State College 

 of Washington; President M. A. Brannon, Uni- 

 versity of Idaho; Professor Maxwell Adams, Uni- 

 versity of Nevada; Professor Joseph F. Merrill, 

 director of the School of Mines, University of 

 Utah. 



The following resolution from Section K 

 was referred to the committee on policy: 



Sesolved, That this association establish a stand- 

 ing committee of five members to be known .as 

 the "Committee on the Protection of Scientific 

 Eesearch, ' ' that this committee from time to time 

 prepare and publish in the name of the associa- 

 tion such statements and resolutions as it may 

 consider necessary in tlie education of the public 

 concerning the value of animal experimentation 

 in the advancing of the medical and biological 

 sciences. 



The two following resolutions were adopted. 



Besolved, That there be authorized a finance 

 committee of three of which the treasurer shall be 

 a member and chairman. 



Besolved, That a committee of seven be ap- 

 pointed on the administration of the income of the 

 research funds of the association, the committee 

 to be the five chairmen of the subcommittees al- 

 ready formed by the committee of one hundred 

 on scientific research, namely, Messrs. E. C. 

 Pickering, G. E. Cross, E. W. Brown, T. W. Rich- 

 ards and E. L. Nichols, and in addition Messrs. 

 E. G. Conklin and E. A. Harper. 



Messrs. H. C. Cowles, Henry B. Ward and 

 Dr. Stewart Paton were elected members of 

 the council for three years. 



A minute in memory of Charles Sedgwick 

 Minot presented by Mr. J. McKeen Cattell 

 was adopted by a rising vote. 



The council at its final meeting passed reso- 

 lutions extending thanks to Provost Smith, of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, and to all the 

 organizations and institutions who did so much 

 for the comfort and entertainment of the 

 members of the association. 



At the meeting of the general committee, 

 the following oflicere were elected: 



Fresident: W. W. Campbell, University of Cali- 

 fornia. 

 Vice-presidents : 



Section A: A. O. Leuschner, University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



Section B : Frederick Slate, University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



Section C: W. McPherson, Ohio State Univer- 

 sity. 



Section D : Bion J. Arnold, Chicago. 



Section E: C. S. Prosser, Ohio State Univer- 

 sity. 



Section F: V. L. Kellogg, Stanford University. 



Section G: W. A. Setchell, University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



Section H: G. M. Stratton, University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



Section I : Geo. F. Kunz, New York. 



Section K : F. P. Gay, University of California. 



Section L: E. P. Cubberley, Stanford Univer- 

 sity. 



Section M: Eugene Davenport, University of 

 Illinois. 



General Secretary : Henry Skinner, Philadelphia. 



Secretary of Council: W. E. Henderson, Ohio 

 State University. 



C.-E. A. Winslow was elected secretary of 

 Section K, to fill an unexpired term of two 

 years. 



Dr. L. O. Howard was again reelected per- 

 manent secretary for a term of five years. 



The committee voted to hold the summer 

 meeting at San Francisco, August 2 to Y, and 

 the next winter meeting at Columbus, Ohio, 

 from December 27, 1915, to January 1, 1916. 

 A convocation week meeting in which all 

 scientific societies are invited to join is recom- 

 mended for New York City in 1916-17, and a 

 meeting in 1917-18 to be held in Toronto or 

 Pittsburgh. 



E. L. WORSHAM, 



General Secretary 



