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before ffie m^niBe'rs of the Various societies 

 at the Academy of Natural Sciences by 

 Professor W. B. Scott, on 'The Miocene 

 Fauna of Patagonia and the Problem of 

 the Southern Hemisphere.' After the 

 lecture a brilliant and most enjoyable re- 

 ception was given to the members of the 

 societies by Dr. and Mrs. Horace Jayne. 



About two hundred members of the vari- 

 ous societies attended the meetings, and the 

 papers presented were numerous and, in 

 some of the societies at least, more than 

 usually interesting. 



The following officers were elected for 

 the ensuing year: 



Association of American Anatomists : President, 

 Professor Charles S. Minot, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity; First Vice-President, Professor George A. 

 Piersol, of the University of Pennsylvania; Sec- 

 ond Vice-President, Professor J. M. Flint, of the 

 University of California; Secretary and Treasurer, 

 Dr. G. Carl Huber, of the University of Michigan ; 

 Executive Committee, Dr. Franklin P. Mall, Dr. 

 George S. Huntington. 



Society of American Bacteriologists : President, 

 Dr. F. G. No'S'y, of the University of Michigan; 

 Vice-President , Dr. E. O. Jordan, of the University 

 of Chicago; Secretary and Treasurer, Dr. F. P. 

 Gorhani, of Brown University. Dr. William H. 

 Welch was elected a delegate to the Council of 

 the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. 



Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology : 

 President, Dr. G. T. Moore; Vice-President, Pro- 

 fessor Clara E. Cummings; Secretary and Treas- 

 urer, Professor W. F. Ganong. 



American Physiological .Society: President, 

 Professor Russell H. Chittenden, of Yale Univer- 

 sity; Secretary and Treasurer, Professor Frederic 

 S. Lee, of Columbia University; Members of 

 Council, Professor William H. Howell, of Johns 

 Hopkins University; Professor Warren P. Lom- 

 bard, of the University of Michigan; Professor 

 William T. Porter, of Harvard University; Pro- 

 fessor Frederic S. Lee, of Columbia University. 



American Society of Zoologists, Eastern Branch : 

 President, Professor E. A. Andrews, of Johns Hop- 

 kins University; Vice-President, Professor W. E. 

 Castle, of Harvard University; Secretary and 

 Treasurer, G. A. Drew, of the University of Maine ; 

 Executive Committee, Professor H. S. Jennings, of 

 the University of Pennsylvania; T. H. Mont- 



gomery, Jr., of the University of Texas; H.C. 

 Bumpus, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



American Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists : 

 President, Professor Henry P. Osborn, of Columbia 

 University and the American Museum of Natural 

 History; Secretary, Dr. 0. P. Hay, American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History; Executive Council, Pro- 

 fessor Bashford Dean, of Columbia University; 

 Professor Loomis, of Amherst College; Dr. C. E,. 

 Eastman, of Harvard University. 



AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY: 

 Theee meetings of the Anierican Mathe- 

 matical Society were held during the 

 Christmas holidays. On December 19 the 

 San Francisco Section met at the Univer- 

 sity of California; the annual meeting of 

 the society was held at Columbia Univer- 

 sity, December 28-29; and the winter 

 meeting of the Chicago Section was held at 

 St. Louis, in connection with that of the 

 American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science December 31 to January 1. 

 Reports of the sectional meetings will 

 appear in a later number of Science. At 

 the annual meeting in New York oflScers 

 for the society for 1904 and members of 

 the council to serve for three years were 

 elected as follows : 



Vice-Presidents — Oskar Bolza and J. M. Van 

 Vleck. 



Secretary — P. N. Cole. 



Treasurer — W. S. Dennett. 



Librarian — ^D. E. Smith. 



Committee of Publication. — P. N. Cole, Alex- 

 ander Ziwet, D. E. Smith. 



Members of the Council — ^Maxime Bocher, 

 Plorian Cajori, M. B. Porter, J. H. Tanner. 



The president of the society, Thomas S. 

 Fiske, continues in office, the presidential 

 term being two years. 



The following persons were elected to 

 membership in the society: R. F. Deimel, 

 Columbia University; C. S. Forbes, Co- 

 lumbia University; 0. T. Geckeler, Geor- 

 gia School of Technology; E. A. Hook, 

 Columbia University; L. A. Martin, Jr., 



