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versities addressed. The proposed conference 

 ■was held in Baltimore on November 17, 1913, 

 on the eve of the annual meeting of the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences. It was attended 

 by eighteen delegates, from the following uni- 

 versities: Clark (Professors Taber and Web- 

 ster) ; Columbia (Professors Cattell and 

 Dewey) ; Cornell (Professors Bennett and 

 Nichols) ; Harvard (Professor Minot) ; Johns 

 Hopkins (Professors Ames, Bloomfield, Love- 

 joy, Morley) ; Princeton (Professors Capps, 

 Kemmerer, Warren) ; Wisconsin (Professors 

 Cole, Marlatt), and Tale (Professors Harri- 

 son, Mendel). After prolonged discussion of 

 the whole subject it was unanimously voted 

 that the organization of the proposed associa- 

 tion should be undertaken; and the chairman, 

 Professor Bloomfield, was authorized to ap- 

 point a committee, representing the principal 

 subjects of study and the principal univer- 

 sities, (a) to determine what professors, or 

 classes of professors, should be invited to 

 attend a meeting, to be held at some time 

 during the current year, for the formal estab- 

 lishment of the association; (fe) to determine 

 the time and place of this meeting, and (c) to 

 prepare a draft of a constitution. After some 

 unavoidable delays, the chairman of the con- 

 ference has announced the composition of the 

 committee as follows: Astronomy, George C. 

 Comstock (Wis.) ; Biological Sciences, E. G. 

 Conklin (Princeton), E. G. Harrison (Yale) 

 and Theodore Hough (Virginia) ; Classical 

 Philology, E. Capps (Princeton) ; Chemistry, 

 Julius Stieglitz (Chicago) ; Economics, M. A. 

 Aldrich (Tulane), Alvin S. Johnson (Cor- 

 nell) ; Education and Psychology, John Dewey 

 (Columbia) ; Engineering, Guido Marx (Stan- 

 ford) ; English, J. W. Bright (Johns Hop- 

 kins), C. M. Gayley (California) ; Geology, 

 W. H. Hobbs (Mich.) ; Germanic Philology, 

 M. G. Learned (Penn.) ; History, W. E. Dodd 

 (Chicago) ; Law, Eoscoe Pound (Harvard) ; 

 Mathematics, C. J. Keyser (Columbia), Henry 

 Taber (Clark); Medicine, C. S. Minot (Har- 

 vard) ; Oriental Languages, Morris Jastrow 

 (Penn.) ; Philosophy, A. O. Lovejoy (Johns 

 Hopkins), Erank Thilly (Cornell) ; Physics, 

 C. E. Mendenhall (Wis.); Political Science, 



Isidor Loeb (Missouri) ; Romance Philology, 

 F. M. Warren (Yale). Professor Dewey has 

 consented to act as chairman. 



In selecting the members of this committee 

 of twenty-five, the chairman of the conference 

 has, of course, had in mind three criteria: 

 the representation of the principal univer- 

 sities, the representation of the several sci- 

 ences, and the special qualifications of indi- 

 viduals for service upon such a committee. 

 With very few exceptions those first asked to 

 serve upon the committee have readily agreed 

 to do so. In two or three instances, however, 

 it has been necessary to leave important uni- 

 versities thus far unrepresented, owing to the ■ 

 inability of the professors first invited to 

 serve, and the inexpediency of further delay- 

 ing public announcement of the committee's 

 membership until other representatives of 

 those institutions could be selected and noti- 

 fied, and their acceptances be received. The 

 committee may be expected to begin at once 

 the consideration of the questions submitted 

 to it ; and it will doubtless be able to announce 

 the date of the contemplated meeting, and its 

 general proposals with respect to the associa- 

 tion, within a few months. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 



The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 

 the American Philosophical Society, the Li- 

 brary Company of Philadelphia, the Jefferson 

 Medical College and the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences have arrange a memorial in honor of 

 the late Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, to be held on 

 the evening of March 31, in the Hall of the 

 College of Physicians. Addresses will be de- 

 livered by Dr. Talcott Williams, New York 

 City; Dr. William H. Welch, Baltimore, and 

 Mr. Owen Wister, Philadelphia. 



Dr. Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus 

 of Harvard University, celebrated his eightieth 

 birthday on March 20. 



A PORTRAIT of Dr. James Ward, professor 

 of mental philosophy at the University of 

 Cambridge, by Mr. Ambrose McEvoy, has been 

 presented to the university. 



