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provided for by the organization of affiliated so- 

 cieties. 



2. The times and places of meeting of the di- 

 vision shall be decided by a committee consisting 

 of a representative of the division and one repre- 

 sentative of each of the affiliated societies. 



3. The division shall organize or maintain no 

 sections for the presentation of technical pro- 

 grams in the lines represented by affiliated so- 

 cieties. The technical programs shall be organized 

 by the separate societies, with one member of the 

 division council as a member of the program com- 

 mittee of each society. 



4. Individual members of societies need not be- 

 come division members, and division members need 

 not join societies, but the privileges of those mem- 

 bers belonging only to the division to present 

 worthy papers in the proper programs and to take 

 part in the discussions should be recognized. 



5. All general sessions, public lectures, ap- 

 pointments of committees for general scientific 

 purposes, etc., shall be controlled by officers of the 

 Pacific division. 



6. The constituents of the Pacific division shall 

 be the individual members of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science living 

 in the territory defined by the original resolution 

 establishing the Pacific division, and such con- 

 stituent societies existing within this territory as 

 are up to standard and which shall apply for mem- 

 bership and be accepted by the division, all so- 

 cieties at present constituents of the Pacific As- 

 sociation of Scientific Societies to have the priv- 

 ilege of affiliation until July 1, 1916. 



Tiie appointment of a subcommittee to 

 draft a constitution for the Pacific Division 

 wa-s referred to the executive committee with 

 power to act. 



A special committee consisting of Director 

 Campbell, Dr. MacDougal and Professor Mer- 

 riam was appointed to select the associate 

 secretary with power to act. (This committee 

 met later in the day and appointed Albert L. 

 Barrows to this position.) 



Professor Lawson presented the report of 

 the committee on the time and place of meet- 

 ing. The report of the committee was finally 

 adopted with some amendments as follows: 



1. The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science should maintain a central office 

 in San Francisco during the time of meeting. 



2. The general sessions of the meeting should 

 be held in San Francisco. 



3. The evening lectures should be given in San 

 Francisco. 



4. The sectional meetings should be held 

 chiefly in Berkeley. 



5. There should be one day's session for sec- 

 tional meetings at Stanford University. 



6. The time of meeting should be the first week 

 in August, 1915. 



The chairman stated that Director Hale had 

 declined the chairmanship of the committee 

 on scientific program on account of his health, 

 and that a new appointment would be an- 

 nounced later. (President J. 0. Branner has 

 since consented to become chairman of this 

 committee.) 



Adjourned to meet at the call of the chair. 

 E. P. Lewis, 

 Secretary. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



Professor J. H. Oomstock, of Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has received one of the twelve honor- 

 ary memberships of the Societe Entomologique 

 of Belgium. 



The Franklin Institute of the State of 

 Pennsylvania has awarded its Elliott Cresson 

 gold medal to Professor Wolfgang Gaede for 

 his molecular air pump, in consideration of 

 the very great value of this invention for the 

 quick production of vacua beyond those 

 hitherto obtainable. 



The Cameron prize of the University of 

 Edinburgh has been awarded to Professor 

 Paul Ehrlich in recognition of his discovery 

 of salvarsan and other contributions to medi- 

 cal science. 



Professoe EEi>fST Neumann, the pathologist 

 of Konigsberg, has been given an honorary 

 doctorate of medicine at the University of 

 Geneva on the occasion of his eightieth birth- 

 day. 



M. Henri Bergson, professor of philosophy 

 at the College de France, has been elected to 

 membership in the French Academy. 



Professoe J. G. Frazer has been elected a 

 member of the Athenaeum Club for " distin- 

 guished eminence." 



