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the school have kindly invited the members of 

 the congress to visit the castle and grounds on 

 the Saturday afternoon. 



Eelics of Napier, collected by Lord Napier 

 and Ettrick and other representatives of the 

 family, will also be on view ; and it is intended 

 to bring together for exhibition books of tables 

 and forms of calculating machines, which 

 may reasonably be regarded as natural devel- 

 opments of the great advance made by Napier. 



Individuals, societies, universities, public 

 libraries, etc., may become founder members 

 on payment of a minimum subscription of £2; 

 and each founder member will receive a copy 

 of the memorial volume, which will contain 

 addresses and papers read before the congress, 

 and other material of historic and scientific 

 value. It is important to secure as many 

 founder members as possible, so that a volume 

 may be brought out worthy of the memory of 

 Napier. 



Ordinary subscribers attending the celebra- 

 tion may receive copies of the memorial volume 

 at a reduced price. 



Subscriptions and donations should be sent 

 to the honorary treasurer, Mr. Adam Tait, 

 Eoyal Bank of Scotland, St. Andrew Square, 

 Edinburgh. 



All who are interested in this proposed cele- 

 bration are respectfully invited to communi- 

 cate with the general secretary of the Eoyal 

 Society of Edinburgh, 22 George Street, Edin- 

 burgh, and to announce their intention of 

 being present. 



0. G. Knott, 

 General Secretary 



KOYAL Society of Edinburgh 



TSE AMEMICAN ASSOCIATION FOB THE 

 ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



The council met at the Cosmos Club, 

 Washington, on Tuesday, April 21, 1914, at 

 5 :45 P.M. In the absence of the chairman, 

 Mr. Diller presided. Those present were: 

 Messrs. Bowie, Cattell, Diller, Gulliver, J. A. 

 Holmes, Howard, Humphreys, D. S. Johnson, 

 John Johnston, Kober, Metcalf, Pickering, 

 Shear, Trelease and Twitmeyer. 



The financial report of the permanent sec- 



retary was read and, on motion, was approved 

 and ordered printed. 



Mr. Cattell submitted the report of the com- 

 mittee on policy. 



On motion, the following resolutions recom- 

 mended by the committee on policy were 

 adopted ad seriatim,: 



1. Resolved, tliat Professor Piekerimg be added 

 to the committee on policy. 



2. Resolved, that Dr. E. W. Allen, of the ofiSee 

 of experiment stations, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, be elected secretary of Section M (Agri- 

 culture) and that he be authorized, with Professor 

 L. H. Bailey, vice-president of the section, to 

 nominate the sectional committee for Section M. 

 and also its representative on the council. 



3. Resolved, that the permanent secretary be in- 

 structed to inform Dr. Robert M. Ogden that 

 no funds can be provided for the present for the 

 associate secretary for the south beyond necessary 

 clerical expenses. 



4. Resolved, that the first of the Jane M. Smith 

 life memberships be awarded to Professor Charles 

 Henry Peck, of Albany. 



5. Resolved, that the entrance fee be remitted to 

 members of the Pacific Association of Scientific 

 Societies who join the American Association dur- 

 ing the present year. 



6. Resolved, that the council authorize a grant 

 of four hundred dollars to the Pacific coast com- 

 mittee for the expenses of its membership com- 

 mittee. 



7. Resolved, that the council authorize the Pa- 

 cific coast committee to adopt the constitution for 

 the Pacific Division and that it be suggested that 

 the second clause of the second paragraph of Art- 

 icle 3, beginning with the word "except," of the 

 constitution submitted, be omitted. 



8. Resolved, that the council give the treasurer 

 full power to act for the association in the Colbum 

 will ease. 



9. Resolved, that the council authorizes the ap- 

 pointment of Messrs. Eliot, Minot and Pickering 

 as a committee to take the necessary steps to 

 amend the charter of the association increasing 

 the amount of property which may be held by the 

 association. 



10. Resolved, that the clerical expenses of the 

 committee of one hundred on scientific research 

 and its subcommittees be met from' the income 

 from the permanent funds of the association. 



11. Resolved, that the council welcomes the ac- 

 tion of the council of the American Chemical So- 



