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far malaria has influenced the past history 

 and the modem development of Greece, and 

 shows that the regions maintaining most of 

 the rural population are the ones most seri- 

 ously affected — in fact, a vigorous country 

 life can not exist under the conditions found. 

 Where villages, churches, inns and country 

 houses should be scattered about the land- 

 scape, the villages are few and poor and coun- 

 try houses are almost entirely absent. 



The Antimalarial League of Greece, of 

 which H. M. the King of Greece is patron, 

 has already commenced work against malaria, 

 and appeals for help to all those interested. 

 The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 

 has published an appeal for subscriptions, 

 and H. R. H. Princess Christian has con- 

 sented to be the patroness of the subscription 

 in Great Britain. Subscriptions may be paid 

 to the secretary of the Liverpool School of 

 Tropical Medicine, B 10 Exchange Buildings, 

 Liverpool, England. 



So many excellent and most practical and 

 convincing evidences of the possibility of the 

 extermination of malaria are now culminating 

 that it is obvious not only that with a certain 

 expenditure of money the disease can be wiped 

 out in a country like Greece, but that in our 

 own territory the question is simply one of 

 funds and an enlightened public spirit. 



L. O. Howard. 



THE CONVOCATION WEEK MEETINGS OF 

 SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and the national scientific 

 societies named below will meet in New York 

 City during convocation week, beginning on 

 December 27, 1906. 



American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science. — December 2 7- January 1. Retiring 

 president, Professor C. M. Woodward, Washing- 

 ton University, St. Louis, Mo.; president-elect. 

 Professor W. H. Welch, The Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, Baltimore, Md. ; permanent secretary, Dr. 

 L. O. Howard, Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C; 

 general secretary. Dr. John F. Hayford, U. S. 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington, D. C. ; 

 secretary of the council, President F. W. McNair, 

 Houghton, Mich. 



Local Executive Committee. — 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. Humphreys, G. S. Huntington, 

 Edward Kasner, Henry F. Osborn, C. L. Poor, 

 Clifford Richardson, E. B. Wilson, Frederick J. 

 E. Woodbridge, J. McKeen Cattell, secretary. 



Section A, Mathematics and Astronomy. — Vice- 

 president, Professor Edward Kasner, Columbia 

 University; secretary. Professor L. G. Weld, Uni- 

 versity of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. 



Section B, Physics. — Vice-president, Professor 

 W. C. Sabine, Harvard University; secretary, Pro- 

 fessor Dayton C. Miller, Case School of Applied 

 Science, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Section C, Chemistry. — Vice-president, Mr. 

 Clifford Richardson, New York City; secretary. 

 Professor Charles L. Parsons, New Hampshire 

 College of Agriculture, Durham, N. H. 



Section D, Mechanical Science and Engineer- 

 ing. — Vice-president, Mr. W. R. Warner, Cleve- 

 land, 0.; secretary. Professor Wm. T. Magruder, 

 Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 



Section E, Geology and Geography. — Vice-presi- 

 dent, Dr. A. C. Lane, Lansing, Mich.; secretary, 

 Dr. Edmund O. Hovey, American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York, N. Y. 



Section F, Zoology. — Vice-president, Professor 

 E. G. Conklin, University of Pennsylvania; secre- 

 tary, Professor C. Judson Herrick, Denison Uni- 

 versity, Granville, Ohio. 



Section G, Botany. — Vice-president Dr. D. T. 

 MacDougal, Washington, D. C. ; secretary. Pro- 

 fessor F. E. Lloyd, Desert Botanical Laboratory, 

 Tucson, Arizona. 



Section H, Anthropology. — ^Vice-president, Pro- 

 fessor Hugo Miinsterberg, Harvard University ; 

 secretary, George H. Pepper, American Museum 

 of Natural History. 



Section /, Social and Economic Science. — Mr. 

 Chas. A. Conant, New York City; secretary, Dr. 

 J. F. Crowell, Bureau of Statistics, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Section K, Physiology and Experimental Medi- 

 cine. — Vice-president, Dr. Simon Flexner, The 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; secre- 

 tary, Dr. Wm. J. Gies, College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City. 



The American Society of Naturalists. — Decem- 

 ber 28. President, Professor William James, 

 Harvard University; secretary, Professor W. E. 

 Castle, Harvard University. 



The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of 

 America. — December 27. President, Professor E. 

 C. Pickering, Harvard College Observatory; secre- 



