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Treasurer, and of the Secretaries of the Sections 

 shall be five years. 



Art. 18. The Council shall consist of the Past 

 Presidents, and the Vice-Presidents of the last 

 two meetings, together with the President, the 

 Vice-Presidents, the Permanent Secretary, the 

 General Secretary, the Secretary of the Council, 

 the Secretaries of the Sections, and the Treasurer 

 of the current meeting, of one fellow elected from 

 each Section by ballot on the first day of its 

 meeting, of one fellow elected by each affiliated 

 society, and one additional fellow from each 

 affiliated society having more than twenty-five 

 members who are fellows of the Association, and 

 of nine fellows elected by the Council, three being 

 annually elected for a term of three years, etc., 

 etc. 



Art. 23. Immediately on the organization of a 

 Section there shall be a member or fellow elected 

 by ballot after open nomination, who, with the 

 Vice-President and Secretary and the Vice-Presi- 

 dent and Secretary of the preceding meeting and 

 the members or fellows elected by ballot at the 

 four preceding meetings sliall form its Sectional 

 Committee. The Sectional Committees shall have 

 power to fill vacancies in their own numbers. 

 Meetings of the Sections shall not be held at the 

 same time with a General Session. The Sectional 

 Committee may invite distinguished foreign asso- 

 ciates present at any meeting to serve as honorary 

 members of said Committee. 



By the action of the general committee 

 the next meeting of the Association will be 

 held at Washington, D. C, December 29, 

 1902, to January 3, 1903, and will be the 

 first held during the newly arranged con- 

 vocation week as arranged and agreed to by 

 more than fifty of the more prominent 

 American universities. The general com- 

 mittee failed to take the usual step of indi- 

 cating the probable time and place of the 

 second meeting to follow, the consensus of 

 opinion being that it would be profitable to 

 await the result of the midwinter meeting 

 before a decision is reached as to the desira- 

 bility of such arrangements in the future. 



The following officers were elected for the 

 ensuing year: 



President — Dr. Ira Eemsen, Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



General Secretary — H. B. Ward, University of 

 Nebraska. 



Secretary of Council — Ch. Wardell Stiles, of 

 Washington. 



Yice-Presidents — Section A, George B. Halsted, 

 Austin, Tex.; B, E. F. Nichols, Dartmouth Col- 

 lege, N. H.; C, Charles Baskerville, Chapel Hill, 

 N. C. ; D, C. A. Waldo, Purdue University, Lafay- 

 ette, Ind.; E, W. M. Davis, Harvard; F, C. W. 

 Hargitt, Syracuse, N. Y.; G, F. V. Coville, Wash- 

 ington; H, G. M. Dorsey, Chicago; I, H. T. New- 

 comb, Philadelphia. 



Section Secretaries — Section A, C. S. Howe, 

 Cleveland; B, D. C. Miller, Cleveland; C, H. N. 

 Stokes, Washington; D, A. K. Kingsbury, Wor- 

 cester, Mass.; E, E. 0. Hovey, New York; F, C. 

 Judsou Herrick, Granville, 0.; G, C. J. Chamber- 

 lain, Chicago; H, R. H. Dixon, Cambridge, Mass.; 

 I, Frank H. Hitchcock. 



The Permanent Secretary and Treasurer are 

 elected every five years. Dr. L. 0. Howard, Wash- 

 ington, continues in the former office, and Pro- 

 fessor R. S. Woodward, New York, in the latter. 



The increasing number and size of the 

 affiliated societies make it impossible to give 

 at this place a full report of their proceed- 

 ings. At the request of representatives of 

 the organizations concerned, the American 

 Anthropologic Association and the National 

 Geographic Society were made affiliated 

 societies for the Pittsburgh meeting. 



The Botanical Society of America passed 

 a series of resolutions on Monday, June 

 30, 1902, by which the sum of $500.00 is set 

 aside from its yearly income, this year and 

 every succeeding year, to be used in making 

 grants in aid of investigations. This meas- 

 ure goes into operation at once, and appli- 

 cations from the members and associates of 

 the Society may be sent to. the secretary at 

 any time. The funds of the Botanical 

 Society of America consist of the accumu- 

 lated dues and interest paid in by the mem- 

 bers, and the grants in question probably 

 constitute the only series ever offered in 

 America, the money for which has been con- 

 tributed wholly by a body of scientific 

 workers alone. 



Of the reports of committees, that on the 

 relations of the .journal Science to the As- 

 sociation may be taken to be of the greatest 



