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versity; secretary, Gfeorge H. Pepper, American 

 Museum of Natural History, New York City. 



Section I, Social and Economic Science. — Vice- 

 president, Dr. John Franklin Crowell, New York 

 City; secretary, Professor J. P. Norton, Yale Uni- 

 versity, New Haven, Conn. 



Section K, Physiology and Experimental Medi- 

 cine. — Vice-president, Dr. Ludvig Hektoen, Uni- 

 versity of Chicago; secretary. Dr. Wm. J. Gies, 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia 

 University, New York City. 



Section L, Education. — Vice-president, Hon. 

 Elmer E. Brown, U. S. Commissioner of Educa- 

 tion; acting secretary. Professor Edward L. Thorn- 

 dike, Teachers College, Columbia University, New 

 York City. 



The American Society of Naturalists. — Decem- 

 ber 28. President, Professor J. Playfair McMur- 

 rieh. University of Toronto; secretary. Professor 

 E. L. Thomdike, Teachers College, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York City. Central Branch, presi- 

 dent. Professor E,. A. Harper, University of Wis- 

 consin; secretary. Professor Thomas G. Lee, Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 



The America/ii Mathematical Society. Chicago 

 Section, December 30, 31. Chairman, Professor 

 Edward B. Van Vleck; secretary Herbert E. 

 Slaught, 58th St. and Ellis Ave., Chicago, 111. 



The American Physical Society. — President, 

 Professor E. L. Nichols, Cornell University; sec- 

 retary. Professor Ernest Merritt, Cornell Univer- 

 sity, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The American Chemical Society. — December 27- 

 January 2. President, Professor Marston T. Bo- 

 gert, Columbia University; secretary. Professor 

 Charles L. Parsons, New Hampshire College, Dur- 

 ham, N. H. 



The Association of American Geographers. — • 

 December 31-January 1. Acting-president, Pro- 

 fessor P. S. Tarr, Cornell University, to whom 

 correspondence should be addressed; secretary, 

 Albert P. Brigham, 123 Pall Mall, London, Eng. 



The Entomological Society of America. — Secre- 

 tary, J. Chester Bradley, Cornell University. 



The Association of Economic Entomologists. — 

 December 27, 28. President, Professor H. A. 

 Morgan, Knoxville, Tenn. ; secretary, A . F. Bur- 

 gess, Columbus, Ohio. 



The American Society of Biological Chemists. — 

 December 30-January 2. President, Professor 

 Russell H. Chittenden, Yale University; secretary. 

 Professor William J. Gies, College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York 

 City. 



The Society of American Bacteriologists. — ^De- 



cember 31-January 2. Vice-president, F. D. 

 Chester, Delaware Agricultural College, Newark, 

 Del.; secretary. Professor S. C. Preseott, Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology. 



The American Physiological Society. — -Begin- 

 ning December 31. President, Professor W. H. 

 Howell, Johns Hopkins University; secretary, 

 Professor Lafayette B. Mendel, 18 Trumbull St., 

 New Haven, Conn. 



The Association of American Anatomists. — Jan- 

 uary 1-3. President, Professor Franklin P. Mall; 

 secretary. Professor G. Carl Huber, 1330 Hill St., 

 Ann Arbor, Mich. 



The American Society of Zoologists. — Central 

 Branch. Secretary, Professor Thomas G. Lee, 

 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. 



The Botanical Society of America. — December 

 31 and January 1, 2 and 3. President, Professor 

 George F. Atkinson, Cornell University; secretary. 

 Dr. D. S. Johnson, Johns Hopkins University. 



The Botanists of the Central States. — Business 

 Meeting. President, Professor T. H. Macbride, 

 University of Iowa; secretary. Professor H. C. 

 Cowles, University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 



The American Psychological Association. — De- 

 cember 27, 28. President, Dr. Henry Rutgers 

 Marshall, New York City; acting secretary, Pro- 

 fessor R. S. Woodworth, Columbia University, 

 New York City. 



The Western Philosophical Association. — Secre- 

 tary, Dr. John E. Bowdoin, University of Kansas, 

 Lawrence, Kans. 



The American Anthropological Association. — 

 December 30, January 4. President, Professor 

 Franz Boas, Columbia University; secretary. Dr. 

 Geo. Grant MacCurdy, Yale University, New 

 Haven, Conn. 



The American Folk-lore Society. — December 30- 

 January 4. President, Professor Roland B. Dixon, 

 Harvard University; secretary. Dr. Alfred M. 

 Tozzer, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



Other national societies will meet as fol- 

 lows: 



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The American Society of Zoologists. — Eastern 

 Branch. December 26, 28. President, Dr. C. B. 

 Davenport, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.; secretary. 

 Professor W. L. Coe, Yale University, New Haven, 

 Conn. 



The American Society of Vertebrate Paleontol- 

 ogists. — December 26-28. President, Professor 

 Bashford Dean, Columbia University; secretary. 

 Professor Frederick B. Loomis, Amherst College, 

 Amherst, Mass. 



