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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIV. No. 625. 



Council of the American Association. Trustees 

 room, Columbia University, 9 a.m. 



Meetings of the sections and societies, 10 A.M. 

 or earlier; 2:30 p.m. or earlier. 



Luncheon, 12 to 2 p.m. 



Complimentary dinner to the President of the 

 Association by men of science of New York City. 

 University Club, 7:30 p.m. 



Banquet of Sigma Xi. Place and time to be 

 designated. 



Nominating Committee. Hotel Belmont, 9:30 

 P.M. 



Tuesday, January 1. 



Registration, etc. Earl Hall. 



Council of the American Association. Trustees 

 room, Columbia University, 9 a.m. 



General session. Earl Hall, 10 a.m. 



Meetings of the sections and societies, 10 a.m. 

 or earlier; 2:30 p.m., or earlier. 



Luncheon. 12 to 2 p.m. 



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-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. 

 doast 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, Wra. 

 Hallock, Alex. C. Humphreys, G. S. Huntington, 

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

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

 1^. Woodbridge, J. McKeen Cattell, secretary. 



Section A, Mathematics and Astronomy. — Vice- 

 -president. Professor Edward Kasner, Coliunbia 

 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 G, Chemistry. — Vice-president, Mr. 

 •Clifford Richardson, New York City; secretary. 

 Professor Charles L. Parsons, New Hampshire 

 College, 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 Miinsterberg, Harvard University; 

 secretary, George H. Pepper, American Museirm 

 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. Comstock, 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 

 27-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 

 26-29. Acting president. Professor W. M. Davis, 

 Harvard University; secretary. Professor Her- 

 man L. Fairchild, Rochester, N. Y. 



