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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLI. No. 1068 



Wednesday, Septemher 8 



Salt Water Day on Staten Island, for a study of 

 the coastal flora. 



Lunch at 1:30, with subsequent opportunity for 

 scientific oratory. 



Thursday, Septemher 9 

 10:30-1: Session for the reading of papers. 

 1:30: Lunch at the Garden. 

 2:30-4: Session for the reading of papers. 

 4-&: Inspection of portions of the grounds and 

 buildings. 



Friday, September 10 

 "Visit to the pine barrens of New Jersey, under 

 the guidance of the Torrey Botanical Club. 



Saturday, September 11 



Visit to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and an 

 excursion to some Long Island locality. 



Other excursions of more special character will 

 be organized if opportunity offers. 



TBE CORNELL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF NEW 

 TOUK CITY 

 On February 4, 1915, twenty members of 

 the teaching stafp of Cornell University Med- 

 ical College in New York City met at the 

 college building and organized the Cornell 

 Medical Society. The objects of this society, 

 as stated in its constitution, are 

 to foster a better acquaintanceship among its 

 members, to create an atmosphere of helpful and 

 sympathetic criticism of the original work done in 

 all departments of the Cornell University Medical 

 College, and to promote the best interests of the 

 college as an educational and research institution. 



Four meetings, consisting of a scientific pro- 

 gram followed by a smoker, are to be held each 

 year in the months of October, December, 

 February and April. 



For the purpose of keeping in closer touch 

 with the alumni of the college an annual day 

 is to be observed in May, at which time 

 the regular college duties being suspended by vote 

 of the faculty, the society shall conduct scientific 

 demonstrations in the various laboratories of the 

 college and in the hospital wards. 



In the evening of this day the society, alumni 

 and friends of the college shall give a dinner at 



which the graduating class shall be the guests of 

 the society. 



The first regular meeting of the society this 

 year was held in March and was attended by 

 fifty members of the teaching staff ; the second, 

 held in April, was attended by sixty men, most 

 of whom had become members. 



The first annual day was held Friday, May 

 21. The regular classes, except those for the 

 fourth year, were held, but a special program 

 was prepared for the visiting alumni. About 

 sixty alumni visited the college, some of them 

 coming from a distance. 



The first annual dinner was attended by 126. 

 The president of the society. Dr. John A. Hart- 

 well, presided and toasts were responded to by 

 Drs. W. Gilman Thompson, Graham Lust, 

 Frank S. Meara, for the faculty; by Dr. ArthuJ 

 M. Wright, class of 1905, for the alumni, and 

 Mr. Douglas Palmer, for the graduating class. 



The organization of such a society has fully 

 justified the belief of its originators that it 

 would serve a useful purpose. The meetings 

 already held have demonstrated the advantages 

 of bringing the members of the various de- 

 partments into closer contact with the work 

 being done in departments other than their 

 own and of arousing in the alumni an interest 

 in the progress which has been made since 

 their graduation. 



HOTEL BESESVATIONS FOB THE SAN 



FMANCISCO MEETING OF THE 



AMEMICAN ASSOCIATION 



The Pacific Coast Committee of the Amer- 

 ican Association respectfully suggests that 

 those who plan to attend the San Francisco 

 meeting of the association during the week 

 beginning August 2 should consider making 

 their hotel reservations at once. A deposit 

 amounting to ten per cent, of the anticipated 

 total cost of the service should accompany the 

 request for the reservation. This sum will be 

 credited upon the hotel account. 



The hotels on the appended list are com- 

 fortable and conveniently located. There are 

 many other excellent hotels in San Francisco 

 and vicinity, and printed information concern- 

 ing them may be secured by addressing Mr. 



