January 12, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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1906, tliere will be a meeting of the fellows 

 and members of the association residing in 

 New York City, or within a radius of fifty 

 miles; on Thursday, January 18, at 4:30 p.m., 

 in room 305, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia 

 University. Members of societies likely to 

 meet next year in affiliation with the associa- 

 tion are invited to be present whether or not 

 they are members of the association. 



At the New Orleans meeting of the Botan- 

 ical Society of America, Dr. F. S. Earle, di- 

 rector of the Agricultural Station in Cuba, 

 was elected president; Dr. William Trelease, 

 director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 

 secretary, and Dr. Arthur Hollick, of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, treasurer. It is ex- 

 pected that the same officers will be elected by 

 the Society for Plant Morphology and Physiol- 

 ogy and by the American Mycologieal Society, 

 which have efFected a union with the Botanical 

 Society of America. 



At the New York meeting of the Astronom- 

 ical and Astrophysical Society of America, on 

 December 28-30, 1905, the following officers 

 were elected for the ensuing year: 



President — E. C. Pickering. 



First Vice-President — G. E. Hale. 



Second Vice-President — W. W. Campbell. 



Secretary — G. C. Comstock. 



Treasurer — C. L. Doolittle. 



Councilors — E. B. Frost and Harold Jacoby. 

 Councilors Ormond Stone and W. S. Eichel- 

 berger hold over from the preceding year. The 

 time and place of the next meeting will be de- 

 termined by the council. 



During the Christmas holidays, in connec- 

 tion with the annual meeting at Baltimore of 

 the Economic Association and the Political 

 Science Association, a new national associa- 

 tion, to be known as the American Sociological 

 Society, was formed by about fifty sociol- 

 ogists who were gathered there for this pur- 

 pose. The new organization will meet at the 

 same time and place as the American Economic 

 Association, and in the constitution adopted at 

 Baltimore its objects are stated to be ' the en- 

 couragement of sociological research and dis- 

 cussion, and the promotion of intercourse 

 between persons interested in the scientific 

 study of society.' While the new society will 



include in its members those ' practical sociol- 

 ogists,' that is to say, social reform workers, 

 as well as theoretical and academic sociologists, 

 the predominating viewpoint in its discussions 

 is to be scientific, rather than popular or prop- 

 agandist. The call for the conference which 

 resulted in the formation of the society was 

 signed by T. N. Carver, of Harvard; F. H. 

 Giddings, of Columbia; S. M. Lindsay and 

 S. N. Patten, of Pennsylvania; E. A. Eoss, 

 of Nebraska ; A. W. Small, of Chicago ; W. G. 

 Sumner, of Yale; C. W. A. Veditz, of George 

 Washington University; and Lester F. Ward, 

 of the Smithsonian Institution. The officers 

 of the new society for the current year are: 



President — Lester F. Ward. 



Vice-Presidents — W. G. Sumner, of Yale, and 

 F. H. Giddings, of Columbia. 



Secretary and Treasurer — O. W. A. Veditz, of 

 George Washington. 



Executive Committee (in additiom to the above) 

 —A. E. Ross', W. F. Willcox, A. W. Small, S. M. 

 Lindsay, D. C. Wells and William- Davenport. 



At the annual meeting of the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, on December 

 19, Dr. Samuel G. Dixon was reelected presi- 

 dent; Dr. Edward J. Nolan, recording secre- 

 tary and librarian; Dr. Charles B. Penrose, 

 councilor for three years, and Dr. Horatio C. 

 Wood, councilor to fill an unexiaired tenn. 



At the recent meeting of the California 

 Teachers' Association held at the University 

 of California, the section of mathematics 

 adopted School Science and Mathematics as 

 its official journal and elected the following 

 officers for the ensuing year : 



President— Proiessov G. A. Miller, Stanford 

 University. 



Vice-President — Professor W. H. Balcer, San 

 Jose Normal School. 



Secretary — Principal J. Fred Smith, Campbell 

 High School. 



At the meeting of the Entomological So- 

 ciety of France of December 13, three hon- 

 orary members were elected to fill the vacan- 

 cies in the list of twelve honorary members 

 caused by the deaths of Packard, Saussure 

 and Friedrich Brauer. Dr. M. Standfuss, 

 professor in the Polytechnicum in Zurich, 



