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SCIENCE. 



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where. It is almost impossible in the 

 middle of the winter in a city like New 

 York to arrange for general excursions, but 

 there will be a number of excursions and 

 visits arranged for various groups of scien- 

 tific men. 



The Hotel Belmont, Park Avenue and 

 42d St., opposite the Grand Central Sta- 

 tion, has been selected as the headquarters 

 of the association. Other hotels in the 

 immediate vicinity are the Murray Hill, 

 the Grand Union and the Manhattan. 

 Hotels between the headquarters and Co- 

 lumbia University that can be recom- 

 mended are the Empire, the St. Andrew 

 and the Endicott. In view of the fact 

 that there are many visitors in New York 

 City at Christmas time, reservation of 

 rooms should be made in advance. 



The societies that will meet in New York 

 City in convocation week and their officers 

 are as follows: 



American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science. — December 27-Januai'y 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. MeNair, 

 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, O. ; 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 Munsterberg, Harvard University; 

 secretary, George H. Pepper, American Museum 

 of Natural History. 



Section I, 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- 

 tary. Professor Geo. C. Comstoek, Washburn Ob- 

 servatory, Madison, Wis. 



The American Physical Society. — ^President, 

 Professor Carl Barus, Brown University; secre- 

 tary. Professor Ernest Merritt, Cornell Univer- 

 sity, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The American Mathematical Society. — Decem- 

 ber 28, 29. President, Professor W. F. Osgood, 

 Harvard University; secretary. Professor F. N. 

 Cole, Columbia University. 



The American Chemical Society. — December 

 2 7- January 2. President, Professor W. F. Hille- 

 brand, U. S. Geological Survey; secretary. Dr. 

 William A. Noyes, the Bureau of Standards, 

 Washington, D. C. 



The Geological Society of America. — December 



