November 21, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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floor of the main building of Columbian Uni- 

 versity. At 10 A.M. a short general session 

 will be held daily in the main lecture room on 

 the first floor of the main building of Colum- 

 bian University. The sections will meet daily 

 iuunediately after the adjournment of the gen- 

 eral session and from that time until 1 o'clock, 

 and then after an intermission of one hour 

 for luncheon, from 2 to 5. 



On Tuesday evening the address of the 

 president of the American Chemical Society, 

 Professor Ira Eemsen, will be given at 7:30 

 P.M. On Tuesday evening the public lecture 

 of the American Society of Naturalists will 

 be given at 8 p.m. 



On Tuesday evening the smokers of the 

 American Society of Naturalists and its afiili- 

 ated societies will be held, and on Tuesday 

 evening the Botanical Society of Washington 

 will receive visiting botanists. 



On Wednesday evening the annual dinner 

 of the American Society of Naturalists will 

 be held, and the dinner will be followed by 

 the annual address of the president, Professor 

 J. McK. Cattell. It is expected that the an- 

 nual dinners of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety and the American Society of Geologists 

 will be held on this evening. 



On Thursday evening a public lecture, com- 

 plimentary to the citizens of Washington, 

 will be given under the auspices of the A. A. 

 A. S. and the National Geographic Society. 

 The subject will be ' Volcanoes of the West 

 Indies,' and the lecturers will probably be 

 Professor I. 0. Russell and Professor Angelo 

 Heilprin. 



Following this lecture there will be the 

 regular meeting of general committee of the 

 A. A. A. S., including the council and one 

 member from each section, to elect officers 

 and decide upon the time and place of the 

 next meeting. 



The permanent secretaiy has been notified 

 that the following societies will meet in affilia- 

 tion with the Association at the Washington 

 meeting : 



The American Anthropological Association. 

 — This association will hold its first regular 

 meeting in Washington during Convocation 



Week in affiliation with Section II of the 

 A. A. A. S. President, W J McGee; secre- 

 tary, George A. Dorsey, Field Columbian 

 Museum, Chicago, 111. 



American Chemical Society. — This society 

 will meet in Washington on December 29 and 

 30. The headquarters will be the Arlington 

 Hotel. The retiring address of the president. 

 Dr. Remsen, will be given on Tuesday evening 

 at 7:30. President, Ira Remsen; secretary. 

 Dr. A. C. Hale, 352A Hancock street, Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y. 



American Folk-lore Society. — This society 

 will meet in affiliation with Section H of the 

 A. A. A. S. President, George A. Dorsey; 

 vice-presidents, J. Walter Fewkes, James 

 Mooney; secretary, W. W. Newell, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



American Microscopical Society. — This so- 

 ciety will probably hold a business meeting on 

 December 29. President, E. A. Birge, Madi- 

 son, Wis.; secretary, H. B. Ward, University 

 of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr. 



A'nierican Morphological Society. — This so- 

 ciety will meet in Washington December 30 

 and 31. President, H. C. Bumpus; vice- 

 president, G. H. Parker; secretary and treas- 

 urer, M. M. Metcalf, Woman's College, Balti- 

 more, Md. 



American Philosophical Association. — This 

 association will meet in Washington during 

 Convocation Week, December 30 and 31 and 

 January 1. Secretary, H. N. Gardiner, 

 Northampton, Mass. 



American Physical Society. — This society 

 will meet in Washington during Convocation 

 Week, in affiliation with Section B of the 

 A. A. A. S. President, Albert A. Michelson; 

 secretary, Ernest Merritt, Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. T. 



American Physiological Society. — This so- 

 ciety will meet in Washington, December 30 

 and 31. President, R. H. Chittenden; secre- 

 tary, F. S. Lee, Columbia University, New 

 York, N. Y. 



American Psychological Association. — This 

 association will meet in Washington Decem- 

 ber 30 and 31 and January 1. On Wednes- 

 day morning the association will hold a joint 

 session with the American Philosophical Asso- 



