644 



SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXII. No. 568. 



Executive Committee. — The general officers 

 and the chairman of the subcommittees. 



Reception and Entertainment Committee. — 

 Dr. Isadore Dyer, Professor John R. Eicklen, 

 Mrs. I. L. Lyons, Miss Ida Richardson, Mrs. 

 J. P. Richardson, Miss Kate Minor, Mrs. J. R, 

 Picklen, Judge Charles Penner, Mr. George 

 Kanshe, Miss Kate Gordon, Miss Grace King, 

 Mrs. M. M. Davis, Mr. Charles Godchaux, 

 Mr. E. B. Gushing, Professor B. V. B. Dixon, 

 Mr. Lucien Lyons, Mrs. Craighead, Mr. Theo- 

 dore Lyons, Captain I. L. Lyons. 



Hotels and Boarding Houses. — Andrew 

 Blakley, Theodore Grunewald, Joe Voegtle, J. 

 K. Denechaud, Henry M. Mayo. 



Meeting Place and Equipment. — -Professor 

 Wilkinson, Professor Creighton, Professor 

 Caldwell, Jr., Professor Anderson, Professor 

 Smith, Professor Barnett and Professor 

 Miller. 



Membership Committee. — James H. Dillard, 

 L. ,W. Wilkinson, Professor W. B. Smith and 

 Dr. J. W. Caldwell. 



Transportation Committee. — Hunter C. 

 Leake, Charles Marshall, J. Kemp Ridgely, 

 Robert Strong, E. B. Cushing, D. C. Cunan. 



Press and Printing. — John Dymond, Sr., 

 John Dymond, Jr., Ashton Phelps, T. G. 

 Rapin, Major T. E. Davis, Captain J. W. 

 Bostick, Page M. Baker, Norman Walker, 

 Robert Ewing, J. M. Leveque, J. Walker Ross, 

 Henry Steir, Professor J. Hanno Deiler, Pro- 

 fessor Alcee Eortier, A. Capdeville, Dr. Mar- 

 tin A. Aldrich, Dr. J. S. Barnett, Professor 

 Walter Miller. 



The executive committee of the council of 

 the association consisting of the permanent 

 secretary, the general secretary, the secretary 

 of the council and all secretaries of sections 

 will meet at the office of the permanent secre- 

 tary in the St. Charles Hotel, at noon, on 

 Thursday, December 28, to revise the pro- 

 gram for the week and to make the final 

 arrangements for the opening session of the 

 association, which will be held in one of the 

 large halls of the city, at ten o'clock, on 

 Friday, December 29. The meeting will be 

 called to order by the retiring president. Pro- 

 fessor Earlow, who will introduce the presi- 

 dent elect. Professor C. M. Woodward. Ad- 



dresses of welcome will be delivered by Gov- 

 ernor Blanchard, by President Craighead and 

 by Mayor Behrmann, and to these addresses 

 President Woodward will reply. The ad- 

 dresses of the vice-presidents of sections will 

 be distributed throughout the week in accord- 

 ance with the plan adopted at the Philadelphia 

 meeting of the association. 



Special features of the meeting will include 

 the address of the retiring president. Professor 

 Farlow, and the public evening lectures will 

 include, if possible, one by some eminent au- 

 thority on the ' Panama Canal ' and another 

 on the subject of ' Irrigation and Drainage.' 

 There will also be an important symposium 

 under the auspices of Section K on the sub- 

 ject of yellow fever and other insect-borne 

 diseases. In this discussion, it is hoped that 

 prominent specialists from the north will take 

 part and that addresses will be made by the 

 men who have borne the brunt of the fight 

 against yellow fever in New Orleans during 

 the past summxcr, especially Dr. J. H. White, 

 who has had charge of the situation for the 

 Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, 

 Dr. Souchon, president of the State Board of 

 Health, and Dr. Kohnke, the health officer of 

 New Orleans, and others. 



The local committee will arrange for recep- 

 tions and excursions to places of interest and 

 route maps of the city will be prepared indi- 

 cating points of historical interest. The folk- 

 lore of Louisiana will be handled in an espe- 

 cially interesting manner before Section H. 



The following affiliated societies have noti- 

 fied the permanent secretary that they will 

 meet with the association at New Orleans : 

 the American Chemical Society, the Botanical 

 Society of America, the Fern Chapter, the 

 Association of Economic Entomologists, the 

 Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychol- 

 ogy, the Society for the Promotion of Agri- 

 cultural Science. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Lord Rayleigh has been recommended by 

 the council for election as president of the 

 Royal Society at the anniversary meeting on 

 November 30. 



