SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XII. No. 288. 



H. J. "Webber, Dept. Agr., Washington, D. C. 

 Frank Wm. Eane, Agricultural College, Durham, 

 N. H. 

 S. A. Beach, Agl. Exp. Station, Geneva, N. Y. 

 B. M. Duggar, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 

 A. D. Selby, Agl. Exp. Station, Wooster, Ohio. 

 Grace E. Cooley, Ph.D., Wellesley, Mass. 

 Oscar Loew, U. S. Dept. Agr., Washington, D. C. 

 John Muir, Martinez, Cal. 



The more important transactions of the 

 Council are the following : 



A committee was appointed consisting of 

 Professor Simon Kewcomb, Mr. G. K. Gil- 

 bert, Professor R. S. Woodward, Professor 

 Jas. Lewis Howe and Dr. L. 0. Howard, to 

 report upon the relations of the Association 

 and the journal Science, and drew up the 

 following resolution, which was unani- 

 mously adopted by the Council : 



That the Council accept the proposal of The Mac- 

 millan Company to furnish the journal Science to all 

 members of the American Assooiation in good stand- 

 ing, at the rate of two dollars per year each ; to take 

 effect for one year from January 1, 1901, the total 

 amount of the subscription at this rate to be paid by 

 the permanent secretary from funds in his hands, and 

 the members to receive the journal free of charge to 

 themselves on the following conditions : That to the 

 words of the title of the journal be added the words, 

 ' Publishing the ofiicial notices and proceedings of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, ' and that the price to all non-members of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science 

 be maintained at five dollars per annum. 



That the President of the Association, the Perma- 

 nent Secretary and one other member to be appointed 

 by the chair be a committee with power to arrange 

 details with The Macmillan Company. 



The Committee composed of G. K. Gil- 

 bert, E. S. Woodward, F. W. Putnam, J. 

 McK. Cattell and L. O. Howard, appointed 

 at the April meeting of the council to con- 

 sider the organization of an American 

 branch of the International Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, Arts and Edu- 

 cation reported as follows : 



That the Committee approves the idea of interna- 

 tional co-operation in the field of science and recom- 

 mends that the council designate a delegate to a na- 

 tional conference looking to that end. 



The Committee on the disposal of back 

 volumes of proceedings, consisting of G. K. 

 Gilbert, L. 0. Howard and T. H. ISTorton, 

 reported as follows : 



Your committee appointed at the New Haven meet- 

 ing to consider the disposal of accumulated back nurn- 

 bers of proceedings , having given the matter due con- 

 sideration, report the following recommendations : 



1. That the back volumes now in storage in Cam- 

 bridge be transported to New York and stored in the 

 Columbia University at no storage cost to the Associa- 

 tion. 



2. That 50 complete sets be reserved for sale only 

 in sets at 50 cents per volume. 



3. That other back volumes, not less than five 

 years old be sold to members for 50 cents each. 



4. That volumes published within five years be 

 sold at §1.50 each with the usual trade discount of 25 

 per cent. 



The Library Committee reported and two 

 of the members, Drs. T. H. Norton and Al- 

 fred Sprenger, resigned. A committee on 

 the disposition of the Association library 

 was appointed, consisting of W J McGee, 

 B. F. Thomas and L. 0. Howard. 



A committee, consisting of John M. 

 Clarke, W J McGee, J. McK. Cattell, 

 Chas. H. Hitchcock and Theo. Gill was ap- 

 pointed to report on the erection of a bronze 

 tablet to mark the house in Albany where 

 the geologists of New York in 1838 met to 

 make arrangements for the Association of 

 American Geologists, the parent-body of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science. 



The committee of Section H, on the 

 teaching of anthropology, was made a stand- 

 ing committee of the Association. It con- 

 sists of W J McGee, G. G. McCurdy, 

 Frank Russell, Franz Boas and W. H. 

 Holmes. 



Dr. Thomas Wilson reported progress on 

 behalf of the Committee appointed to ob- 

 tain legislation looking to the protection 

 and preservation of many articles of arch- 

 geological, ethnological and anthropological 

 interest and value. 



The action of the American Chemical 



