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SCIENCE. 



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importance to the general policy of the As- 

 sociation. - The report as adopted by the 

 Council is given below : 



COJIMITTEE OK THE RELATIONS OF THE JOUKlSfAL 

 SCIENCE WITH THE ASSOCIATION". 



This committee is able to report that the ar- 

 rangement by which Science is sent to members 

 of the Association appears to be advantageous to 

 the Association and to the advancement and dif- 

 •fusion of science in America. At the beginning 

 of the New York meeting two years ago wlien 

 the plan was adopted the membership of the As- 

 sociation was 1,721, whereas it is now about 

 3,450. The permanent secretary states that the 

 money derived from the initiation fees of new 

 members has sufficed to send Science to all mem- 

 bers of the Association for the eighteen months 

 during which the arrangement has been in effect. 

 In order, however, that the finances of the Asso- 

 ciation may be on a satisfactory basis without 

 depending on the initiation fees of new members, 

 and in order that the publishers of Science may 

 not lose by the arrangement the membership must 

 be 4,000 and should be 5,000. We recommend 

 that special efforts be made to increase the mem- 

 bership to at least 4,000 at the time of the Wash- 

 ington meeting. 



We recommend that we be authorized to re- 

 new for the year 1903 the present contract witli 

 the Macnrillan Company, according to which 

 Science is sent to all members of the Association 

 in good standing on the payment of $2 for eacli 

 member from the funds of the Association. 



Professor Simon Newcomb, the chairman of this 

 committee, is abroad, but it is known that he 

 concurs in its recommendations. 

 ( Signed. ) 



Chaeles S. Minot, 

 G. K. Gilbert, 

 E. S. Woodward, 

 J. McK. Cattell, 

 L. 0. Howard. 

 The general proceedings of the Associa- 

 tion inclusive of action by the council of 

 general interest, but which did not come 

 before the general sessions, are as follows : 

 The first general session was held in 

 Music Hall, Carnegie Institute, on Monday, 

 June 30, at 10 a.m. with the retiring presi- 

 dent, Dr. C. S. Minot, in the chair. After 

 a prayer offered by the Rev. Lemuel Call 

 Barnes, D.D., the retiring president, Dr. 



Charles S. J\Iinot, of the Harvard Medical 

 School, introduced the president-elect Pro- 

 fessor Asaph Hall, U. S. N., who called on 

 Dr. W. J. Holland, director of the Carne- 

 gie Institution and chairman of the local 

 committee. Colonel Samuel H. Church 

 and Colonel George H. Anderson also wel- 

 comed the Association to Pittsburgh, and 

 President Hall made a brief reply. 



A lecture on ' The Prevention of the Pol- 

 lution of Streams by Modern Methods of 

 Sewage Treatment ' by Dr. Leonard P. Kin- 

 nicutt, was given in the Music Plall, Carne- 

 gie Institute on Monday evening, June 30, 

 and the address of the retiring president, 

 Dr. C. S. Minot, ^vas delivered in the same 

 place on the following evening. Dr. Mi- 

 not 's lecture 'The Problem of Conscious- 

 ness in its Biological Asp)ects' was printed 

 in full in the last issue of this Journal. 

 Mv. Robert T. Hill, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, gave an illustrated lecture on 'The 

 Recent Disaster in Martinique' in the same 

 place on Thursday evening, July 3, which 

 formed the concluding exercise of the meet- 

 ing. 



In order to facilitate business and short- 

 en the period of necessary attendance of 

 certain members of the council, it was voted 

 by that body that its duties be delegated to 

 an executive committee consisting of the sec- 

 retaries of the Association and the secre- 

 taries of the several sections for the session 

 of the Saturday preceding the week of the 

 meeting in which the program is offered. 



The permanent secretary was instructed 

 to express to the secretary of the Smithson- 

 ian Institution the appreciation of the Asso- 

 ciation for his services to science in provid- 

 ing for a table at the Naples Biological 

 Station. 



The Washington committee on the elec- 

 tion of new members during the interim of 

 council meetings was continued with power. 



A message of sjnnpathy was sent to King 

 Edward of England. 



