JANUARY 4, 1901.] 
subject being ‘The Attitude of the State towards 
Scientific Research,’ and the speakers being 
Professor H. F. Osborn, Dr. L. O. Howard, 
Professor W. B. Clark, Dr. B. T. Galloway and 
Professor William T. Sedgwick. 
The business transacted by the Society in- 
eluded an appropriation of $50 toward the sup- 
port of the university table at the Naples 
Zoological Station, and $50 to support a 
table at the Marine Biological Laboratory at 
Woods Holl. It was also voted that a commit- 
tee of five be appointed by the incoming execu- 
tive committee to select appointments to the 
university table at Naples, and to raise, if pos- 
‘sible, additional funds for its support. A reso- 
lution was passed protesting against the duty 
on wax and other models intended for scientific 
research in educational institutions. 
The most important business transacted by 
the Society was the consideration of its relations 
to the Naturalists meeting simultaneously at 
Chicago. The action taken was as follows: 
(1) Section 1, of Article IV, which limited the 
territory for holding meetings, was striken out 
-of the Constitution and was transferred to the 
By-Laws. (2) This By-Law was temporarily 
‘set aside for the purpose of providing for the 
meeting of the Society in Chicago in 1901. (8) 
The Executive Committee was empowered to 
‘confer with those interested in the formation 
of a Western Branch of the Society. 
Officers for the ensuing year were elected as 
follows : 
President, Wm. T. Sedgwick ; Vice-Presidents, L. O. 
Howard, L. M. Underwood, J. Walter Fewkes ; Sec- 
retary, A. D. Mead ; Treasurer, M. M. Metcalf; Ea- 
ecutive Committee from Society at Large, G. H. Parker, 
J. McK. Cattell. 
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD- 
VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 
A MEETING of the Council of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science 
was held at Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 
more, at one o’clock on December 28th, with 
the president of the Association, Professor R. 
S. Woodward, in the chair. Professor C. S. 
Minot, the president-elect, was also in attend- 
ance. 
The permanent secretary, Dr. L. O. Howard, 
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made a report on the affairs of the Association, 
including the preparations for the meeting next 
August at Denver. Professor L. G. Carpenter 
has been in charge of the local arrangements, 
and has visited the officers of the Association 
and the leading scientific centers of the Hastern 
States in the interest of the meeting. 
Local committees were appointed in a large 
number of places throughout the country to 
forward the interests of the Association in dif- 
ferent regions. 
A committee was appointed to inquire 
whether universities and other scientific insti- 
tutions would set aside a week during the win- 
ter for the meetings of scientific and learned so- 
cieties. 
Miss Watson presented her resignation as as- 
sistant secretary of the Association, and was 
elected a life member in recognition of her long 
and efficient services. 
247 new members were elected, which makes 
the total membership of the Association over 
2,000. 
The contract made by the Association with 
The Macmillan Company was presented. It 
carries out the arrangements made at the New 
York meeting, in accordance with which 
SCIENCE is sent free of charge to all members of 
the Association. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
WE expect to publish in early issues accounts 
of the scientific proceedings of the societies 
that met during Christmas week. Inthe mean- 
while it may be stated that Professor W. T. 
Sedgwick, of the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, has been elected president of the 
American Society of Naturalists ; Professor J. 
S. Kingsley, of Tufts College, president of the 
American Morphological Society ; Professor W. 
H. Welch, of the Johns Hopkins University, pres- 
ident of the American Society of Bacteriologists; 
Dr, Erwin F. Smith, U.S. Department of Agri- 
culture, president of the Society of Plant Mor- 
phology and Physiology; Dr. Frank Russell, 
of Harvard University, president of the Folk- 
lore Society; Professor Josiah Royce, of Harvard 
University, president of the American Psycho- 
logical Association; Professor E. H. Moore, of 
the University of Chicago, president of the 
