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osteologist (curator of osteology in the Pea- 

 body Museum of Tale University) ; Albert H. 

 Hardy, chief assistant; C. F. Westerberg, 

 assistant topographer; H. S. Arnold, M.D., 

 medical adviser; Philip A. Means, assistant in 

 archeology; L. M. Kirkpatrick, secretary. 

 The surgeon has not yet been named. 



Hiram BmcHAM, 



Director 



TEE COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED ON 

 SCIENTIFIC MESEABCE OF TEE AMER- 

 ICAN ASSOCIATION FOE THE 

 ADVANCEMENT OF 

 SCIENCE 



This committee, authorized by the council of 

 the association and appointed at and after the 

 Atlanta meeting by President Wilson and 

 President Eliot with the advice of the com- 

 mittee of policy, met at the Cosmos Club, 

 Washington, on the afternoon of April 20, 

 1914. Mr. Pickering was in the chair, and 

 the following members were present: 



Messrs. C. L. Alsberg, E. W. Brown, J. McK. 

 Cattell, C. B. Davenport, K. E. Guthe, George E. 

 Hale, Ross G. Harrison, L. O. Howard, C. S. Howe, 

 William H. Howell, W. J. Humphreys, William W. 

 Keen, C. Kenneth Mees, George A. Miller, E. L. 

 Nichols, Arthur A. Noyes, Henry F. Osborn, E. C. 

 Pickering, Ira Eemsen, Frank Schlesinger, Elihu 

 Thomson, O. H. Tittmann, Thomas L. Watson, 

 Arthur G. Webster, William M. Wheeler and E. S. 

 Woodward. 



The membership of the committee was com- 

 pleted by election, and there was a long and 

 important discussion on scientific research in 

 America and the means by which it can be 

 advanced by the committee. Among the ques- 

 tions fully discussed were (1) the use of re- 

 search funds and the establishment of a cen- 

 tral bureau under the auspices of the associa- 

 tion, the National Academy or the Smith- 

 sonian Institution; (2) research work in edu- 

 cational institutions, the extent to which it is 

 supported and should be regarded as the func- 

 tion of the institution and its professors and 

 instructors; (3) the research work of indus- 

 trial laboratories and its relation to the uni- 

 versities; (4) the selection of men in univer- 



sities competent to undertake research work 

 and the preparation that should be given to 

 them, and (5) the fuller recognition and better 

 opportunities that should be given to those 

 who have unusual qualifications for scientific 

 research. It was agreed that the principal work 

 of the committee should be entrusted to sub- 

 committees. The whole committee will meet 

 at Philadelphia on the afternoon of Monday, 

 December 28, 1914, at the hotel headquarters 

 of the American Association. 



Sub-committees were authorized in each of 

 the five directions above noted. The three last- 

 mentioned topics were emphasized, respect- 

 ively, by Mr. C. Kenneth Mees, Mr. Ernest 

 W. Brown and Mr. Theodore W. Eichards, and 

 a sub-committee on each of the subjects will be 

 formed with their advice. The committeea 

 named are: 



Executive CJommittee: E. C. Pickering, Chair- 

 man, Charles D. Walcott, William H. Welch, Ed- 

 mund B. Wilson, J. McKeen Cattell, Secretary. 



Sub-committee on Research Funds: Charles S. 

 Minot, Chairman, Simon Flexner, E. C. Pickering, 

 R. S. Woodward, Charles E. Cross, Secretary. 



Sub-committee on Research in Educational In- 

 stitutions: Edward L. Nichols, Chairman, Edwin 

 G. Conklin, Arthur A. Noyes, John M. Coulter, J. 

 McKeen Cattell, Secretary. 



The full membership of the Committee of 

 One Hundred is as follows : 

 Eliot, Charles W., president of the association, 



president emeritus of Harvard University, 



CImirman. 

 Pickering, E. C, director of the Harvard College 



Observatory, Chairman of the Executive Com- 

 mittee. 

 Adams, Frank D., professor of geology, McGill 



University. 

 Alsberg, C. L., chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, 



U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 Ames, J. S., professor of physics, Johns Hopkins 



University. 

 Angell, J. R., professor of psychology. University 



of Chicago. 

 Baldwin, S. E., professor of law in Tale University 



and governor of Connecticut. 

 Bancroft, W. D., professor of physical chemistry, 



Cornell University. 

 Bessey, Charles E., professor of botany, University 



of Nebraska. 



