January 9, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



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Besolved, That the Society of American Forest- 

 ers be formally accepted as an affiliated society. 



Besolved, That the council of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science au- 

 thorizes the establishment of local branches of the 

 association in places where the members are pre- 

 pared to conduct branches which will forward the 

 objects of the association. 



Besolved, That the standing committee on or- 

 ganization and membership be instructed to pro- 

 mote the establishment of such local branches. 



The associate secretary for the south 

 made an interesting report of the work 

 which he had undertaken towards stimulat- 

 ing an interest in the association in the 

 south. He reported correspondence with 

 several hundred men in southern institu- 

 tions and a visit to several of the educa- 

 tional institutions of the south. 



Dr. McDougal reported news concerning 

 the Pacific Coast Division with reference 

 to the Pacific Coast Meeting. A committee 

 of thirty from this division has been given 

 power to organize for the specific purpose 

 of making preparations for this meeting. 

 He also stated that the Pacific Coast Asso- 

 ciation of Scientific Societies, composed of 

 three or four hundred members, had also 

 taken this matter up. Members should 

 come prepared to spend at least ten days in 

 California, as meetings would probably be 

 held in three or four difiierent places in the 

 state. The time of holding this meeting was 

 discussed but no definite action taken. 



Dr. Pickering and Dr. Holmes on behalf 

 of the committee on expert testimony re- 

 ported progress, but postponed its final 

 report. 



The permanent secretary read a letter 

 from Dr. J. S. Diller, asking that a grant 

 be made for the publication of the twenty- 

 four papers read before Section E, on the 

 Mineral Resources of the Southern States. 

 On motion, a grant of $200 was appropri- 

 ated for this purpose. 



On motion, the permanent secretary and 



the editor of science were instructed to pre- 

 pare a directory of the funds available for 

 research work for the information of those 

 desiring to make application for the same. 



The president announced the members he 

 had appointed on the committee of one hun- 

 dred on research authorized at the spring 

 meeting of the council. 



On motion, a list of the members of the 

 association, the constitution and the official 

 proceedings were ordered printed during 

 the year, and every three years thereafter, 

 provided funds are available. 



At the meeting of the general committee, 

 the following officers were elected : 



President: Chas. W. Eliot, president emeritus of 

 Harvard University. 



Vice-presidents : 



Section A: Henry S. White, Vassar College. 

 Section B: Anthony Zeleny, University of 



Minnesota. 

 Section D: Albert Noble, New York. 

 Section E : U. S. Grant, Northwestern Univer- 

 sity. 

 Section E: Erank E. LiUie, University of Chi- 

 cago. 

 Section G: G. P. Clinton, Connecticut Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station. 

 Section H : Clark Wissler, American Museum 



of Natural History. 

 Section K: B. M. Pearce, University of Penn- 

 sylvania. 

 Section L: Paul H. Hanus, Harvard Univer- 

 sity. 

 Section M: L. H. Bailey, Cornell University. 

 General Secretary: W. A. Worsham, Jr., Athens 

 State College of Agriculture. 



Secretary of Council: Henry Skinner, Academy 

 of Sciences, Philadelphia. 



Associate Secretary of the South: E. M. Ogden, 

 University of Tennessee. 



At this meeting it was decided to hold 

 the next meeting of the association at Phila- 

 delphia, during convocation week, 1914r- 

 1915. 



On motion it was recommended to future 

 general committees that the meeting of 

 1915-16 be held at Toronto and the meeting 



