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office of the permanent secretary, in the 

 Mitchell Tower Arcade, University of Chi- 

 cago. No " Daily Program " will be issued. 

 The following events may be announced in 

 advance : 



Saturday, December 28, 1907 

 The register for the Chicago meeting will 

 be open at 2 p.m. at the office of the perma- 

 nent secretary, Auditorium Annex. 



The regular meeting of the executive com- 

 mittee, consisting of the general secretary, the 

 secretary of the council, and the secretaries of 

 the different sections, will be held at noon 

 in the rooms of the permanent secretary, at 

 the Auditorium Annex. 



Sunday, December 29, 1907 

 The office of the permanent secretary in the 

 Auditorium Annex will be open all day for 

 registration. 



Monday, December 30, 1907 



Meeting of the Council at 9 a.m., at Reynolds 

 Theater, in the Tower group of the University. 



First General Session of the Association at 

 10 A.M. in Leon Mandell Assembly Hall, Univer- 

 sity of Chicago. 



The meeting will be called to order by the re- 

 tiring president. Dr. W. H. Welch, who will in- 

 troduce the president of the meeting, Professor 

 E. L. Nichols. 



Addresses of welcome will be delivered by Dr. 

 Harry Pratt Judson, president of the University 

 of Chicago, and by Mr. Charles L. Hutchinson, 

 chairman of the Local Committee for the meeting. 



Reply by President Nichols. 



Announcements by secretaries. 



Agreement on the hours of meeting. 



Adjournment of the general session, to be fol- 

 lowed by the organization of the sections in their 

 respective halls. 



Addresses by the vice-presidents at 2:30 p.m. 

 as follows: 



Vice-president Kasner, before the Section of 

 Mathematics and Astronomy. Title, " Geometry 

 and Mechanics." 



Vice-president Richardson, before the Section of 

 Chemistry. Title, " A Plea for the Broader Edu- 

 cation of the Engineer." 



Vice-president Conklin, before the Section of 

 Zoology. Title to be announced later. 



Tuesday, December 31, 1907, at 2:30 P.M. 



Vice-president Sabine, before the Section of 

 Physics. Title, " The Origin of the Musical 

 Scale." 



Vice-president MacDougal, before the Section of 

 Botany. Title to be announced later. 



Vice-president Conant, before the Section of 

 Social and Economic Science. Title, " The Influ- 

 ence of Friction in Economics." 



Vice-president Flexner, before the Section of 

 Physiology and Experimental Medicine. Title, 

 " Recent Advances and Present Tendencies in 

 Pathology." 



Wednesday, January 1, 1908, at 2:30 P.M. 



Vice-president Warner, before the Section of 

 Mechanical Science and Engineering. Title to be 

 announced later. 



Vice-president Brown, before the Section of 

 Education. Title to be announced later. 



OTHER PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENTS 



All the sections of the association and, so 

 far as possible, all the affiliated societies, will 

 meet at the University of Chicago on Decem- 

 ber 30. Several of the sections of the associa- 

 tion will hold sessions in which topics of 

 general interest will be discussed. 



At 8 o'clock the retiring president will give 

 his address in Leon Mandell Assembly Hall. 

 At the close of the address a reception will be 

 tendered to the association by President H. P. 

 Judson and the board of trustees of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. 



On the following days the sections and so- 

 cieties will hold their regular sessions. It is 

 expected that there will be joint meetings when 

 the same subjects are covered, and that some 

 meetings will be arranged for of general in- 

 terest to all members of the association. No 

 definite arrangements have been made for the 

 general evening functions after Monday night. 

 Dinners and meetings of special societies and 

 gi-oups, smokers and informal meetings may 

 be arranged for these subsequent evenings. 



On Friday afternoon, January 3, there will 

 be a convention of the Sigma Xi, followed by 

 a banquet in the evening. 



