NOVEMBEB 16, 1906.] 



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fessor W. N. Rice explained the Ash Bed of 

 Lamentation Mountain, and Professor J. Bar- 

 rell, the two lava flows of the second or main 

 sheet. In addition to advanced students from 

 colleges and teachers from high schools the 

 following institutions were represented: Har- 

 vard, Professors Davis and Wolff, Drs. John- 

 son and Huntington; Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, Dr. Loughlin; Wellesley, Pro- 

 fessor Fisher; Holyoke, Professor Talbot; 

 Williams, Professor CReland; Brown, Pro- 

 fessor Brown; Wesleyan, Professor Rice; 

 Trinity, Professor Genthe; Rutgers, Professor 

 Lewis; Tale, Professors Gregory, Barrell and 

 Schuchert and Mr. Bowman; U. S. Geological 

 Survey, Dr. George Otis Smith; Salem Nor- 

 mal School, Professor Moore; New Britain 

 Normal School, Professor Loomis. Professor 

 H. F. Cleland, of Williams, was appointed 

 permanent secretary. The next meeting will 

 be held at Providence, Rhode Island, under 

 the leadership of Professors Brown, Emerson 

 and Woodworth. 



LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE NEW 

 YORK MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 

 ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE AND THE 

 AFFILIATED SCIENTIFIC 

 SOCIETIES. 



New York City having been selected at 

 the New Orleans meeting of the American 

 Association as the place of the next annual 

 meeting, a notice was published in Science 

 calling a meeting of local members at Co- 

 lumbia University on January 18. At this 

 meeting plans were discussed and a local ex- 

 ecutive committee was elected as follows: J. 

 J. Stevenson, chairman, C. C. Adams, Charles 

 Baskerville, Franz Boas, N. L. Britton, H. C. 

 Bumpus, Chas. A. Conant, Simon Flexner, 

 Wm. J. Gies, Wm. Hallock, Alex. C. Hum- 

 phreys, G. S. Huntington, Edward Kasner, 

 Henry F. Osborn, C. L. Poor, Clifford Rich- 

 ardson, E. B. Wilson, Frederick J. E. Wood- 

 bridge, J. McKeen Cattell, secretary. This 

 committee has held four meetings at the 

 American Museum of Natural History. The 

 business transacted and the preliminary ar- 



rangements for the meeting may be summa- 

 rized as follows: 



1. The first general session will be held in 

 Earl Hall, Columbia University, at 10 o'clock 

 on the morning of Thursday, December 27. 

 The retiring president. Dr. C. M. Woodward, 

 will introduce the president of the meeting. 

 Dr. W. H. Welch, and President Butler will 

 welcome the members. The usual announce- 

 ments will then be made. The sections of the 

 association will hold at 11 o'clock their meet- 

 ings for organization, followed in several cases, 

 by the address of the chairman. Council 

 meetings and meetings of organization of the 

 special societies can to advantage be held at 

 9 o'clock. All the sections of the association 

 and, so far as possible, all the national socie- 

 ties will meet at Columbia University on 

 December 27 at 2 p.m. Several of the sec- 

 tions of the association will hold sessions in 

 which topics of general interest will be dis- 

 cussed. At 8 o'clock the retiring president 

 will give his address in Horace Mann Hall. 

 From 9 to 11 o'clock the trustees of Columbia 

 University will offer a reception. At 10 

 o'clock there will be an informal smoker in 

 the Faculty Club. 



2. On Friday the sections and the societies 

 will hold their regular sessions. It is expected 

 that there wiU be joint meetings when the 

 same subjects are covered and that some meet- 

 ings will be arranged of general interest to all 

 members of the association. Friday evening 

 is reserved for dinners and meetings of special 

 societies and groups. It is also suggested that 

 smokers and informal meetings be held on 

 the Wednesday evening preceding the meet- 

 ing. 



3. The meetings will continue on Saturday 

 with some scattering. Thus Section K and 

 the societies devoted to the medical sciences 

 will meet at the Rockefeller Institute, and 

 Section G and the American Botanical So- 

 ciety will meet at the New York Botanical 

 Garden. There will be a lecture at the City 

 College at 12 o'clock, followed by a luncheon 

 and an inspection of the new buildings. At 

 3 :30 o'clock ten marble busts of pioneers of 

 American science, presented by Mr. Morris K. 

 Jesup to the American Museum of Natural 



