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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 565. 



Repj'esented. 



By investigators 28 



By students 26 



— 54 



Schools and Academies Represented. 



By investigators 7 



By students 10 



— 17 



RESEARCH SEMIZvTARS AT THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL 

 LABORATORY. SEASON OF 1905. 



July 11. Dr. A. J. Carlson, 'Conduction in 

 Nerves.' 



July 13. Dr. A. P. Mathews, ' Precipitation of 

 Colloids by Electrolytes.' 



July 18. Dr. L. L. Woodruff, ' Life-Histories 

 of Hypotrielious Ciliates.' 



July 20. Dr. W. H. Lewis, ' Experiments on 

 Correlative Embryology.' 



July 25. Dr. Torald Sollmann, ' Filtration 

 Phenomena in Dead Kidneys.' 



July 28. Dr. C. W. Hargitt, ' Variations in 

 the Genus Aurelia.' 



August 2. Dr. H. S. Jennings, ' Behavior of 

 Sea Anemones.' 



August 8. Dr. 0. C. Glaser, ' Amitosis in 

 Fasciolaria Embryos'; 'Origin of Nettle Cells in 

 Nudibranchs.' 



August 10. Dr. Leo Loeb, ' The Growth of 

 Tumors.' 



August 15. Dr. E. P. Lyon, ' Geotropism in 

 Paramoeciwn.' 



August 17. Dr. E. G. Spaulding, ' Experi- 

 mental Determination of Energy in the Segmenta- 

 tion of the Sea-Urchin's Egg.' 



August 22. Mr. J. F. McClendon, 'Some Ef- 

 fects of Pressure on the Segmentation of the Eggs 

 of Copepods.' 



Dr. Louis Murbach, ' Mai'ginal Bodies of 

 Gonionemus.' Frank R. Lillie. 



TEE 'NEW ORLEANS MEETING OF TEE 



AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR TEE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



The permanent secretary of the association 

 has received a certain number of letters from 

 members who seem to have gained the im- 

 pression that there is some doubt about the 

 desirability of holding the meeting as an- 

 nounced in the city of New Orleans on ac- 

 count of the fact that there have been a num- 



ber of cases of yellow fever in that city during 

 the past few months. The permanent secre- 

 tary has consulted members of the committee 

 on the policy of the association and some of 

 the leading members of the council and finds 

 that the consensus of opinion is that the meet- 

 ing should be held in New Orleans and that 

 no change of plan should be considered. He 

 has further corresponded with prominent yel- 

 low fever experts and sanitarians and has con- 

 sulted the wishes of the people of New Orleans 

 and the result is that it seems beyond all pos- 

 sible question that a meeting during convoca- 

 tion week in that city will be as safe as in 

 any other city in the United States. 



Surgeon-General Walter Wyman, of the 

 Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, 

 who has charge of the situation in New Or- 

 leans, assures the permanent secretary that 

 there will not be the slightest danger in hold- 

 ing the meeting in New Orleans at the time 

 specified. Such a thing as a case of yellow 

 fever at that time is unprecedented and long 

 before that time the last case will have re- 

 ceived its final treatment. 



Ex-Surgeon-General Sternberg, U. S. Army, 

 a notable yellow fever expert, writes the per- 

 manent secretary under date of October 7, 

 that the history of the prevalence of yellow 

 fever in New Orleans makes it appear certain 

 that there will be nO' danger to any one visiting 

 that city at the time of the meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, December 28, 1905. 



President Craighead, of Tulane University, 

 and the secretaries of the New Orleans Pro- 

 gressive Union, Board of Trade, Stock Ex- 

 change, Sugar and Rice Exchange, have all 

 written letters voicing the same opinion and 

 with enthusiastic cordiality renewing the in- 

 vitation to the association to hold its meeting 

 in New Orleans. It would have been a sore 



