434 



SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 1055 



rapidly than it can be replaced by tbe normal 

 metabolism, and in consequence, the ear-lobes, 

 tlie beak and the legs become pale by this 

 subtraction of pigment. 



A. F. Blakeslee, 

 D. E. Warner 

 Connecticut Ageicultueal College, 

 Stoees, Conn. 



FSOCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 



OF TEE AMEBICAN SOCIETY OF 



ZOOLOGISTS SELD IN PEILA- 



DELPHIA 1914 



Tee American Society of Zoologists, in con- 

 junction with the American Society of Naturalists 

 and Section F of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, held its twelfth annual 

 meeting (the twenty-fifth annual meeting of the 

 society since its establishment as the American 

 Morphological Society) in the zoological labora- 

 tory of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadel- 

 phia, Pennsylvania, on December 29 and 30, 1914. 



At the session for transacting business, held on 

 the afternoon of December 30, the following offi- 

 cers for the society were elected for the year 1915: 



President — William A. Locy, Northwestern Uni- 

 versity, Evanston, 111. 



Vice-president — William E. Eitter, Scripps In- 

 stitution, La JoUa, Cal. 



Member at large of the Executive Committee — 

 D. H. Tennent, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, 

 Pa. 



Upon the recommendation of the executive com- 

 mittee the following persons were elected to mem- 

 bership in the society: 



Cora J. Beekwith, assistant professor of zoology, 

 Vassar College; Ralph V. Chamberlain, museum of 

 comparative anatomy, Harvard University; Mar- 

 garet H. Cook, instructor in zoology, Wellesley 

 College; J. A. Detlefsen, assistant professor of 

 genetics, University of Illinois; Howard E. End- 

 ers, associate professor of zoology, Purdue Univer- 

 sity; Nathan Fasten, instructor in zoology. Uni- 

 versity of Washington; Richard B. Goldschmidt, 

 in charge of department of genetics, Kaiser Wil- 

 helm Institut fiir Biologie, Berlin (Yale Univer- 

 sity) ; Joseph Grinnell, director, museum of verte- 

 brate zoology, University of California; Carl G. 

 liartman, adjunct professor of zoology. University 

 of Texas; Mildred A. Hoge, instructor in zoology, 

 Indiana University; A. G-. Huntsman, lecturer in 

 biology, University of Toronto; B. F. Kingsburv, 

 professor of histology and embryology, Cornell Uni- 

 versity; P. H. Kreeker, assistant professor of zool- 

 ogy, Ohio State University; K. S. Lashley, Adam T. 

 Bruce Fellow, Johns Hopkins University; W. H. 

 Longley, professor of botany, Goucher College; 

 Elmer J. Lund, instructor in zoology, University of, 

 Pennsylvania; Roy L. Moodie, instructor in anat- 



omy, University of Illinois; Julia E. Moody, instruc- 

 tor in zoology, Wellesley College ; Anna H. Morgan, 

 associate professor of zoology, Mount Holyoke 

 College; T. 8. Painter, instructor in biology, Yale 

 University; B. M. Patten, instructor in histology 

 and embryology. Western Reserve Medical School; 

 B. H. Ransom, chief, zoological division, Bureau 

 of Animal Industry, Washington, D. C. ; E. E. 

 Reinke, instructor in zoology. Rice Institute, 

 Houston, Texas; Lucy W. Smith, instructor in 

 zoology, Mount Holyoke College; A. H. Sturtevant, 

 Cutting Fellow, Columbia University; Shiro 

 Tashiro, instructor in physiological chemistry, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago; Ernest I. Werber, assistant in 

 biology, Princeton University; Paul S. Welch, as- 

 sistant professor of entomology, Kansas State 

 Agricultural College. 



The secretary-treasurer of the society was au- 

 thorized to prepare and print a list of the names, 

 addresses, etc., of the members and officers elected 

 at this meeting and any corrections or additions 

 needed to be made to the published list of mem- 

 bers, and to distribute copies of the same to all 

 members. He was also instructed to secure and 

 distribute to members reprints of the proceedings 

 of the Philadelphia meetings when the same shall 

 have been published in Science. 



The committee on premedical education, ap- 

 pointed at the last annual meeting, submitted no 

 report and it was continued with instructions to 

 report at the annual meeting in 1915. 



The executive committee, to which the "Mat- 

 thews Plan for the Organization of an American 

 Biological Society" was referred last year for 

 consideration and report to a future meeting, 

 asked and was granted more time for this work. 



The question of holding a mid-year meeting of 

 the society, as a whole, in San Francisco in con- 

 nection with the Panama Exposition was consid- 

 ered and, upon motion by Professor R. G. Harri- 

 son, the society took the following action: "The 

 American Society of Zoologists urges its members 

 who reside on the Pacific coast to form a section 

 of the society, such as is provided for by the con- 

 stitution, and that this section cooperate in organ- 

 izing and holding a zoological meeting in San 

 Francisco in connection with the Panama Exposi- 

 tion, and it assures these members of the sincere 

 interest and approval of the society in such an 

 undertaking. ' ' 



A committee on resolutions on the death of Pro- 

 fessor Charles Sedgwick Minot and Professor 

 Seth Eugene Meek, consisting of Professors Frank 

 R. Lillie, R. G. Harrison and H. V. Neal, was ap- 

 pointed and instructed to prepare resolutions and 

 publish the same in Science and to transmit 

 copies to the families of the deceased members. 



