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SCIENCE 



[iSr. S. Vol. XXV. No. 628 



sand. With its history of honorable 

 achievement and its present success this 

 association may confidently look forward to 

 a future of greatly increased power and 

 usefulness for the advancement of science. 



I now declare open this fifty-seventh 

 meeting of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, and in so do- 

 ing I express the hope, which our program 

 indicates to be indeed an assurance, that 

 the sessions and social functions of the 

 association, of the various sections and of 

 the affiliated societies may be full of in- 

 terest, pleasure and profit to those in at- 

 tendance. 



Our program now calls for announce- 

 ments by the general and local secretaries. 

 Has the local secretary any announcement 

 to make? 



Doctor Cattell: The local arrange- 

 ments are announced in the general 

 program, which may be obtained in the 

 entrance hall. Notices in regard to excur- 

 sions and receptions which concern only 

 sections or affiliated societies will be made 

 in those societies' meetings. Perhaps the 

 only thing that needs to be said is that 

 ladies accompanying members are very cor- 

 dially invited to the receptions that have 

 been arranged. These include the recep- 

 tion by President Butler, of Columbia 

 University, in Earl Hall, at 9 o'clock this 

 evening, a luncheon and general meeting 

 on Saturday at the College of the City of 

 New York, the unveiling of ten busts of 

 pioneers of American Science at the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History, on Satur- 

 day afternoon, and in the evening a recep- 

 tion given by the trustees of the museum 

 and the New York Academy of Sciences, 

 with an exhibition of scientific progress by 

 the academy. 



Doctor Welch : We will now hear from 

 the general secretary, Mr. Hayford. 



Mr. Hatpord: A letter which has just 

 been received from the secretary of the 



building committee of the United Engi- 

 neering Societies, which is the holding cor- 

 poration for the Engineering Society's 

 building. (Reading) "It gives me pleas- 

 ure as secretary of the United Engineering 

 Society, which is the holding corporation 

 for the Engineering Societies' building at 

 No. 29 West 39th Street, to extend an in- 

 formal invitation to the members of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science to visit our building during the 

 week of the meeting." Signed by F. R. 

 Hutton, secretary. 



Doctor Welch: Out printed program 

 contains the detailed announcements. It 

 is in order to move an agreement on the 

 hours of the meeting. 



Doctor Smith : I move that the hours of 

 the meeting of the various sections be as 

 specified in the printed program. (The 

 motion being seconded, the president put 

 it to a vote, which being unanimously in 

 the affirmative, the motion was declared 

 carried. ) 



Doctor Welch: The session is now ad- 

 journed. The association will meet again 

 on Tuesday morning at ten o'clock in this 

 hall. 



THE POLICY OF THE CARNEGIE 

 INSTITUTION '■ 



Since the trend of development of the 

 institution still hinges to some extent on 

 the relative merits of large projects carried 

 on under the direct supervision of the insti- 

 tution itself and of small projects commit- 

 ted to individuals whose affiliation with the 

 institution may be only temporary, a large 

 amount of attention has been given to this 

 question during the year; much more in 

 fact than to any other. It is a matter of 

 daily correspondence, of daily interviews 

 and of daily importunities. With a desire 

 to see all sides of this question and to hear 



' Concluding part of the report of the presi- 

 dent, 190G. 



