May 23, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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New England Passenger Association, the 

 Western Passenger Association, the South- 

 eastern Passenger Association, and the 

 Southwestern Passenger Association. The 

 Trans-continental Association has not 

 granted a special rate for this Convention 

 but suggests that delegates using their 

 lines avail themselves of the privileges af- 

 forded by getting a nine months' tourist 

 ticket. This means transportation from 

 extreme western points to territory grant- 

 ing above rate, at two cents per mile, and is 

 about equivalent to a rate of one fare and 

 one third for the round trip. An extra- 

 ordinary concession has been made by the 

 Trunk Line Association and the Central 

 Passenger Association in extending the re- 

 turn limit of tickets to August 31, 1902. 



Arrangements have been made for a 

 number excursions and others will be an- 

 nounced in this Journal. 



The Permanent Secretary has been no- 

 tified that the follo^ving societies will meet 

 in affiliation with the Association at the 

 Pittsburgh meeting. The decisions of 

 others may be pending. 



The Geological Society of America. — This So- 

 ciety will meet on Tuesday, July 1, in the lecture 

 room of the Oakland M. E. Church. The Society 

 will assemble on Friday, June 20, for an excursion 

 through the coal measures of western Pennsylva- 

 nia and northern West Virginia, under the guid- 

 ance of Dr. I. C. White. President, Dr. N. H. 

 Winehell; Secretaiy, Professor H. L. Fairchild, 

 Eoehester University, Rochester, N. Y. 



American Chemical Society. — A general meeting 

 of the American Chemical Society will be held on 

 Monday and Tuesday, June 30, July 1, in the lec- 

 ture room of the Bellefield Presbyterian Church. 

 The first session will convene immediately after 

 the organization of Section C of the A. A. A. S. 

 President, Ira Eemsen; Secretary, Dr. A. C. Hale, 

 3 52 A, Hancock Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Sci- 

 ence. — The first session of this Society will be 

 held in the west room, Carnegie Lecture Hall, 

 Carnegie Institute, on Monday, June 30. Presi- 

 dent, W. H. Jordan; Secretary, F. M. Webster, 

 Wooster, 0. 



Botanical Society of America. — The meetings of 

 the Botanical Society of America will be held 

 in the Botanical Hall of the Phipps Conservatory, 

 June 30, July 3. President, Dr. J. C. Arthur; 

 Secretary, Dr. D. T. MacDougal, Bronx Park, 

 New York City. 



American Microscopical Society. — This Society 

 will meet in a designated room in the Phipps 

 Botanical Hall, on Friday and Saturday, June 

 27-28. President's address on the evening of the 

 27th. Regular sessions morning and afternoon, 

 both days. President, Charles E. Bessey; Secre- 

 tary, Henry B. Ward, Lincoln, Nebr., University 

 of Nebraska. 



American Folk-Lore Society. — Papers offered by 

 members of the American Folk-Lore Society will 

 be read in the sessions of Section H, A. A. 

 A. S., at which similar papers will be read in the 

 audience room of the Bellefield Presbyterian 

 Church. Secretary, W. W. Newell, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Association of Eoonomic Entomologists. — This 

 Association will hold its fourteenth annual meet- 

 ing in the west room of the Carnegie Lecture Hall, 

 Carnegie Institute, on Saturday and Monday, 

 June 28 and 30. President, Dr. A. D. Hopkins; 

 Secretary, Professor A. L. Quaintance, College 

 Park, Md. 



Society for the Promotion of Engineering Edu- 

 cation. — This Society will hold its meetings in 

 the Lecture Hall of the Carnegie Institute, on 

 Friday and Saturday, June 27-28. President, 

 Professor Robert Fletcher; Secretary, Professor 

 H. S. Jacoby, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



American Physical Society. — The permanent 

 secretary is informed that this Society has re- 

 quested its Council to arrange for a summer 

 meeting in cormection with Section B, A. A. A. S. 

 At the time of this writing the action has not 

 been taken, but information from the Secretary 

 shows that the meeting will in all probability 

 take place. In that case this Society will meet 

 June 30 to July 3, in connection with Section B, 

 A. A. A. S., in the middle room of the Carnegie 

 Lecture Hall, Carnegie Museum. President, Pro- 

 fessor Albert A. Michelson; Secretary, Professor 

 Ernest Merritt, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Sigma Xi Honorary Scientific Society. — An in- 

 formal general meeting will be held on some con- 

 venient evening to be announced later. The Presi- 

 dent is Professor S. W. Williston, University of 

 Kansas, Lawrence, Kans. The Secretaries are 

 Professor E. S. Crawley, University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, Philadelphia, and Professor James Mc- 

 Mahon, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



