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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 vcill meet as fol- 

 lows: 



NEW HAVEN 



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. 



NEW YORK 



The American Mathematical Society. — December 

 27, 28. President, Professor H. S. White, Vassar 

 College; secretary, Professor F. N. Cole, Columbia 

 University. 



ALBUQUEEQDE, N. M. 



The Geological Society of America. — December 

 30-January 4. President, President Charles R. 

 Van Hise, University of Wisconsin; secretary, 

 Dr. Edmund 0. Hovey, American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, New York City. 



ITHACA 



The American Philosophical Association. — De- 

 cember 26, 28. President, Professor H. N. Gardi- 

 ner, Smith College; secretary. Professor Frank 

 Thilly, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



NEXT STJMMEE, AT SOME PLACE TO BE DETERMINED 



The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of 

 America. — President, Professor Edward C. Picker- 

 ing, Harvard College Observatory; secretary. Pro- 

 fessor Geo. C. Comstock, Washburn Observatory, 

 Madison, Wisconsin. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE 



BADGES AND EXPENSES OF THE AMERICAN" 

 ASSOCIATION 



To THE Editor of Science : I am interested 

 in Professor 0. L. Speyer's letter on pages 



834-835 of the last number of Science. His 

 idea of posting an alphabetical list with num- 

 bers corresponding to those on the badges, in a 

 conspicuous, accessible place on the wall of 

 the registration room is an excellent one. I 

 was not poking fun at him when I expressed 

 myself as pleased with the idea, at the New 

 York meeting, and, in fact, I made a memo- 

 randum of the suggestion for possible use at 

 Chicago. The alphabetical list is an excellent 

 thing, but the expense of publication is very 

 considerable and the Association is far from 

 rich. Of the three dollars a year dues paid 

 by each member, two dollars go to the publish- 

 ers of Science, leaving one dollar from each 

 member to pay the entire expenses of the as- 

 sociation. It is quite possible that the 

 council will d,irect the publication of a num- 

 bered list of members in attendance at Chi- 

 cago, and then of course it will be done. The 

 buttons for this year have already been 

 ordered and delivered, so that it is too late to 

 change the style. The delay by which Pro- 

 fessor Speyers and others were inconvenienced 

 last year occurred through the failure of the 

 contractors to deliver the buttons at the 

 specified time. L. O. Howard, 



Permanent Secretary 



[It should perhaps be added that since Sci- 

 ence has been sent to members of the Ameri- 

 can Association, beginning in 1901, about 

 4,000 new members have joined and their en- 

 trance fees, amounting to about $20,000, have 

 been available for current expenses. But it 

 is, of course true that a dollar from each 

 member, even if the sum of $3,000 a year 

 from entrance fees is added, does not ade- 

 quately defray the expenses of the ofiice of the 

 permanent secretary, of the arrangements for 

 the meetings and of publication of the pro- 

 ceedings. It is also true that $2 from each 

 member does not pay the cost of printing 

 Science. In Great Britain it costs $12.50 a 

 year to be a member of the British Associa- 

 tion and to receive Nature; in France it 

 costs $10 a year to be a member of the French 

 Association and receive the Revue Scien- 

 tiflque. Here where the purchasing power of 

 money is less it costs $3 a year to be a member 



