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SCIENCE 



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Section F — Zoology — Professor Jacob Reighard, 

 University of Michigan. 



Section G — Botany — Professor R. A. Harper, 

 University of Wisconsin. 



Section H — Anthropology and Psychology — Pro- 

 fessor Roland B. Dixon, Harvard University. 



Section I — Social and Economic Science — The 

 Hon. T. E. Burton, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Section E — Physiology and Experimental Medi- 

 cine — Professor F. G. Novy, University of Mich- 

 igan. 



Section L — Education — President A. Ross Hill, 

 University of Missouri. 



Permanent Secretary (for five years) — Dr. L. 

 0. Howard, Washington, D. C. 



General Secretary — Professor Frederic E. Clem- 

 ents, University of Minnesota. 



Secretary of the Council — Professor John Zel- 

 eny, University of Minnesota. 



Secretary of the Section of Social and Economic 

 Science — Fred C. Croxton, Washington, D. C. 



Treasurer — The selection of a treasurer, to suc- 

 ceed President R. S. Woodward, was referred to 

 the council, with power. 



CLOSING GENEBAL SESSION 



The closing general session was held in Hunt- 

 ington Hall at 10 o'clock on the morning of 

 Friday, December 31, 1909; President Jordan 

 presided. 



An amendment to article 23 of the constitution, 

 introduced by Mr. Gulliver at the Baltimore meet- 

 ing, and approved by the council, was adopted. 

 The amended portion of the article reads as fol- 

 lows: 



Article 23. Immediately on the organization 

 of a section, there shall be a member or fellow 

 elected by ballot, after open nomination, who, 

 with the vice-president and secretary and the pre- 

 ceding vice-president and secretary and the presi- 

 dents and secretaries of those alBliated societies 

 which shall be designated by the council and the 

 members or fellows elected by ballot at the four 

 preceding meetings, shall form its sectional com- 

 mittee. 



Reports were read by the permanent secretary, 

 the general secretary and the local secretary. 



By resolution of the jjauncil the president ex- 

 pressed the thanks of the association for the great 

 hospitality, courtesy and privileges extended to 

 the members of the American Association, in con- 

 nection with the Winnipeg meeting and the 

 western excursion of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science. 



It was resolved that the association express its 

 hearty thanks to the many institutions and indi- 

 viduals of Boston and Cambridge and vicinity 

 who have contributed to make the meetings so 

 successful and enjoyable. The following were 

 mentioned : 



The corporation of Massachusetts Institute of 



of Technology. 

 The corporation of Harvard University. 

 The Museum of Fine Arts. 

 The Boston Society of Natural History. 

 Simmons College. 

 Boston University. 



The local committee. Professor Charles S. 

 Minot, honorary chairman; Professor H. W. 

 Tyler, chairman of the executive committee. 

 Ginn and Corapan}-, donors of the Guide Books. 

 Boston Elevated Railway, for special cars. 

 The ladies' committee. 



The citizens, for receptions, teas, musicalea. 

 dinners to restricted groups of members, too 

 numerous for individual mention, but none 

 the less sincerely thanked for the most gen- 

 erous hospitality shown throughout the 

 meetings. Dayton C. Miller, 



General Secretary 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 



THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



The fifty-eighth regular meeting of the society 

 was held at the Dewey Hotel, December 18, 1909, 

 at eight o'clock p.m.. Vice-president W. J. Spill- 

 man presiding. The following papers were read: 

 Periderm,ium strobi, an Importation from Europe: 



Dr. Perley Spaulding, U. S. Bureau of Plant 



Industry. 



The European currant rust has two stages: one 

 as a peridermium on the white pine, the other 

 upon leaves of Ribes. The fungus is native in 

 eastern Europe upon Pinus cembra, upon which 

 it usually does little damage. Since about I860 ' 



it has attacked Pinus strobu^, P. monticola and 

 P. lambertiana, all American species of pines. 

 At present it is distributed throughout Europe, 

 and is causing great damage to white pines in 

 certain sections. In the spring of 1909 it was 

 imported into the United States upon about two 

 and one half million young white pine trees, being 

 distributed in the states of New York, Vermont, 

 New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and 

 Pennsylvania. Lots of trees from the same nur- 

 sery are also known to have been imported inter 

 Ontario and Minnesota. During the past summer 

 a special effort was made to remove the Ribes 



