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The meeting will be called to order by the 

 retix'ing president, Professor Charles Sedg- 

 wick Minot, of the Harvard Medical School, 

 who will introduce the president-elect. Pro- 

 fessor Asaph Hall, U. S. N. The usual ad- 

 dresses of welcome will then be made and 

 President Hall will reply. After the an- 

 nouncements by the general, permanent and 

 local secretaries the general session will 

 adjourn, followed by the organization of 

 the sections in their respective halls. 



On Monday afternoon the vice-presidents 

 are expected to give their addresses as fol- 

 lows: 



Professor James MeMahon, Cornell University, 

 before the Section of Mathematics and Physics. 



Professor D. B. Brace, University of Nebraska, 

 before the Section of Physics. 



Professor H. S. Jacoby, Cornell University, be- 

 fore the Section of Mechanical Science and Engi- 

 neering. 



Professor C. R. Van Hise, University of Wis- 

 consin, before the Section of Geology and Geog- 

 raphy. 



President David Starr Jordan, Leland Stanford 

 Junior University, before the Section of Zoology. 



Mr. B. T. Galloway, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, before the Section of Botany. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, before the Section of Anthropology. 



Mr. John Hyde, U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, before the Section of Social and Economic 

 Science. 



The address by the retiring president, 

 Professor Charles Sedgwick Minot, will be 

 given in the Music Hall, Carnegie Museum, 

 on Tuesday evening. Following this ad- 

 dress there will be a reception to the mem- 

 bers and guests of the Association. It is 

 expected that the Council will meet daily 

 at 9 A.M., and that the usual brief general 

 session will assemble at 10 a.m., the meet- 

 ings of the sections following, with a brief 

 interruption for lunches, until 4 o'clock 

 P.M. On Wednesday evening the general 

 committee will meet at 9 o'clock at the 

 Hotel Sehenley for the election of officers 

 and agreement on time and place for next 



meeting. The closing general session will 

 be held on Thursday evening. 



The Hotel Sehenley has been selected as 

 'headquarters.' It is situated between 

 Forbes Street and Fifth Avenue, opposite 

 the entrance to Sehenley Park, and is 

 within easy walking distance of the Car- 

 negie Institute and the other buildings in 

 which the Association and Affiliated So- 

 cieties will meet. Delegates arriving from 

 the East via Pennsylvania Railroad, and 

 intending to stop at the Hotel Sehenley or 

 one of the Bast End boarding houses, 

 should leave the train at the East Liberty 

 Station instead of going into the Union 

 Station in town. All trains on the main 

 line of the Pennsylvania road stop at East 

 Liberty. A number of other hotels and the 

 addresses of numerous boarding houses 

 within easy reach of the place of meeting 

 are given in the announcement. 



By the courtesy of the Board of Trustees 

 of the Carnegie Institute, the Board of 

 Trustees of the Bellefield Presbyterian 

 Church, the Board of Trustees of the First 

 United Presbyterian Church, the Board of 

 Trustees of the Oakland Methodist Epis- 

 copal Church, the School Board of the 

 Bellefield district and Mr. "VVm. Falconer, 

 Superintendent of Sehenley Park, the meet- 

 ing of the Association and Affiliated So- 

 cieties of the Pittsburgh Convention "\vill 

 be held in the Carnegie Institute, the Belle- 

 field Presbyterian Church, The First 

 United Presbyterian Church, the Oaldaud 

 Methodist Episcopal Church, the Bellefield 

 School House, and the Botanical Lecture 

 Hall of the Phipps Conservatory. All 

 these buildings are located in or close to 

 Sehenley Park and are within five minutes ' 

 walk of the Plotel Sehenley. 



A railroad rate of one fare and one third 

 for the round trip has been granted by the 

 Trunk Line Association and the Central 

 Passenger Association. The same rate is 

 expected and will probably be given by the 



