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SCIENCE 



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meeting during convocation week in 1908-9 

 be held in Baltimore. 



The oificers elected for the ensuing year 

 were: 



President — Professor E. L. Nichols, Cornell 

 University. 



General Secretary — President F. W. McNair, 

 Michigan School of Mines. 



Secretary of the Council — Professor Wm. Harper 

 Davis, Lehigh University. 



Vice-presidents of the Sections : 



A — Professor E. 0. Lovett, Princeton Uni- 

 versity. 

 B — Professor Dayton C. Miller, Case School 



of Applied Science. 

 C — Professor H. P. Talbot, Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Teclmology. 

 D — Professor Olin H. Landreth, Union Col- 

 lege. 

 E — Professor J. P. Iddings, Cliicago Uni- 

 versity. 

 F — Professor E. B. Wilson, Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 

 G — Professor 0. E. Bessey, University of 



Nebraska. 

 H — Professor Franz Boaz, Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 

 I — Dr. John Franklin Crowell, New York 



City. 

 K — Dr. Ludvig Hektoen, Chicago University. 

 L — Hon. Elmer E. Broi'iTi, U. S. Commis- 

 sioner of Education. 

 Secretary of Section B — Professor A. D. Cole, 

 Ohio University, for five years. 



Secretary of Section I — Professor J. P. Norton, 

 Yale University, for five years. 



Secretary of Section L — Professor Edwin G. 

 Dexter, University of Illinois, tor five years. 



The Sectional Committee of the New Section, 

 'L' (Education) — President, David Starr Jor- 

 dan, Leland Stanford University; President 

 Charles S. Howe, Case School of Applied Science; 

 Professor Thomas M. Balliet, New York Uni- 

 versity; Professor E. L. Thorndike, Columbia 

 University; Professor C. M. Woodward, Wash- 

 ington University. 



The minutes of the opening general ses- 

 sion in Earl Hall on December 27, together 

 with the addresses, are appended to this 

 report. 



John F. Haypord, 

 General Secretary 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE OPENING SESSION 

 PRESIDENT C. M. WOODWARD IN THE CHAIR 



Professor Woodward: The American 

 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence will please come to order. In open- 

 ing this meeting, ladies and gentlemen, and 

 before I perform my simple official duty 

 of introducing the new president, I can not 

 avoid saying what a joy it is, what a delight 

 it is, to meet such a congregation of scien- 

 tific men. As one looks down the fifty-nine 

 years which this association has lived and 

 has seen how from a few hundred it has 

 grown to four thousand members, and how 

 many splendid things it has performed in 

 one way or another all in the interests of 

 science and making that science meet the 

 needs of man in this great community, it is 

 a time for congratulation; and I feel espe- 

 cially proud to be for the moment a repre- 

 sentative of such an organization. And 

 with this word of greeting to you and of 

 congratulation for the association, I take 

 great pleasure in presenting to you the 

 president-elect, who will preside over our 

 deliberations and lead us forward during 

 the few days that we noAV meet together, 

 Doctor W. H. Welch, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, v/ho is to be president for the 

 coming year— Doctor Welch. 



Doctor Welch: Ladies and gentlemen, 

 this is not the first meeting of the associa- 

 tion over which I have had the honor to 

 preside, inasmuch as the old custom of 

 holding a midsummer meeting was revived 

 last summer. Before this larger gathering 

 of the association I desire to renew the ex- 

 pression of my thanks and of my profound 

 appreciation of the honor conferred upon 

 me by election to this high office. I in- 

 terpret this honor above all as a recogni- 

 tion of the position held to-day by medicine 

 in its relations to general science, and it is 

 especially as an honor conferred upon the 

 science of medicine that I beg to acknowl- 

 edge your action in selecting me to preside 



