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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIV. No. 602. 



Section A, 1. (No meeting of section was 

 held.) 



Section B, 50. American Physical Society. 



Section C, 45. American Chemical Society and 

 the New York Chapter of the Society for Chem- 

 ical Industry. 



Section D, 23. Society for the Promotion of 

 Engineering Education. 



Section E, 14. 



Section F, 42. American Microscopical Society. 



Section G, 30. 



Section H, 6. (No meeting of the section was 

 held.) 



Section I, 14. 



Section K, 3. (No meeting of the section was 

 held.) 



Four persons registered indicated no 

 preference as to section. 



Section B and the American Physical 

 Society had a joint program of 29 papers, 

 in which no distinction was made between 

 the papers furnished by the two organiza- 

 tions, the papers being arranged according 

 to topics. 



Section C held no formal meeting. Its 

 ■secretary aided the representatives of the 

 American Chemical Society in preparing 

 the program of their Ithaca meeting, and 

 in making preparations for a joint meeting 

 in New York. This society had a program 

 of more than 80 papers, and its meetings 

 were divided into sections. 



The chemists constituted about one third 

 of the total attendance at Ithaca. The 

 chemists and physicists together consti- 

 tuted about one half of the total attend- 

 ance. 



It is interesting to note further that of 

 the 231 members of the association regis- 

 tered, about one half, or 121 to be exact, 

 are members of the affiliated societies meet- 

 ing at this time and place. 



The geographical distribution of the 

 members in attendance can be computed 

 only for the 231 registered members of the 

 association; of these, 94 come from New 

 York State; 20 from Massachusetts; 17 

 from Pennsylvania; 16 from the District 



of Columbia; 12 from Ohio; 10 from Illi- 

 nois ; 7 from Michigan ; 5 from Indiana ; 

 5 from New Jersey; 4 from Canada, Ken- 

 tucky and California; 3 from New Hamp- 

 shire, Minnesota, Missouri, Connecticut 

 and Virginia; 2 from Iowa, Nebraska and 

 Maryland; and 1 each from Tennessee, 

 North Carolina, Alabama, South Carolina, 

 Mississippi, Vermont, Rhode Island, Wis- 

 consin and Kansas. 



The meetings of Section D were held on 

 Friday and Saturday. They were fol- 

 lowed by those of the Society for the Pro- 

 motion of Engineering Education in the 

 same room on Monday and Tuesday, with 

 an attendance about 50 per cent, greater 

 -than that of Section D. 



Section E held two sessions on one day 

 for the reading of papers, and devoted the 

 remaining three days to excursions to 

 points of interest from a geological point 

 of view, near the northern end of Cayuga 

 Lake, near the southern end of Cayuga 

 Lake and at Enfield Glen. 



Section F and the American Microscop- 

 ical Society had a joint program. 



Section C spent two and a half days in 

 excursions to points of special interest 

 from the botanical point of view, including 

 a visit to Enfield Gorge. One day was 

 spent in informal discussion of matters ob- 

 served on the excursions. The Fern Chap- 

 ter and the Society for Horticultural Sci- 

 ence met at Ithaca just before the meeting 

 of the association. 



The attendance at the meetings of Sec- 

 tion I was 25 to 40, considerably in excess 

 of the registered number of members of 

 that section (14). Nineteen papers were 

 presented. 



The relations between sections and affili- 

 ated societies were entirely harmonious in 

 every case, the officers cooperating cor- 

 dially in a common cause. 



Cornell University placed its buildings 

 at the disposal of the association, and each 



