January 10, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



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Iowa 25 Alabama 



Pennsylvania 20 Virginia 



Nebraska 16 Rhode Island 



Massachusetts 15 Utah 



Connecticut 11 California 



Canada 11 Georgia 



Kansas 10 South Carolina . . . 



Maryland 8 Oklahoma 



Colorado 6 England 



South Dakota 5 Hawaii 



Tennessee 5 Japan 



New Hampshire ... 4 



Taking the number present at 2,000 and 

 applying the same geographical distribu- 

 tion would indicate that about 1,300 per- 

 sons attended from within a radius of 500 

 miles against nearly 700 from a greater 

 distance. As to distribution east and 

 west, it appears that, leaving out Illinois 

 and the two from outside the continent, the 

 registered attendance from east of Chicago 

 was 324, while from west of Chicago 178 

 persons registered. 



During the meeting 309 new members 

 were elected. One hundred and forty-two 

 members were elected to fellowship. About 

 one half of these are from membership in 

 affiliated societies under the general rule 

 adopted at the Philadelphia meeting. 



The societies meeting in affiliation were 

 the American Society of Naturalists, the 

 American Mathematical Society (Chicago 

 Branch), the American Physical Society, 

 the American Chemical Society, the Ameri- 

 can Physiological Society, the American 

 Society of Biological Chemists, the Ameri- 

 can Society of Zoologists (Central Branch), 

 the Association of American Anatomists, 

 the Association of American Geographers, 

 the Society of American Bacteriologists, 

 the Entomological Society of America, the 

 Botanical Society of America, the Ameri- 

 can Psychological Association, the Western 

 Philosophical Association, the American 

 Anthropological Association, the American 

 Folk Lore Society and. the Bibliographical 

 Society of America. In practically all 

 cases one or more joint sessions of the 



society were held with the corresponding 

 section of the association. In some cases 

 the joint meeting included more than one 

 affiliated society, and in at least one case 

 two of the sections. 



At one of these joint sessions occurred 

 a symposium on "Cooperation in Biologi- 

 cal Research"; at another a symposium 

 on "Immunity." The one occurring in 

 Mandel Hall, on Thursday, was devoted 

 to an important and significant symposium 

 on public health. 



On Monday afternoon and Tuesday, sec- 

 tions A and B, with the Chicago section 

 of the American ]\Iathematical Society, 

 listened to a series of addresses and dis- 

 cussions on the teaching of mathematics 

 to students in engineering colleges. The 

 large attendance to hear these addresses 

 and discussions, together with the lively 

 and often spicy character of the latter, 

 fully attests the wide-spread and deep 

 interest in this subject, one of great im- 

 portance to engineering education. A 

 committee was appointed to make an in- 

 vestigation of actual conditions bearing on 

 the subject and to report its findings and 

 recommendations to the Society for the 

 Promotion of Engineering Education. 

 This society took steps last summer to 

 appoint a committee of somewhat wider 

 scope, and it is presumed that the com- 

 mittee appointed at Chicago will work in 

 conjunction with that of the professional 

 society. A full account of the proceedings 

 relating to the teaching of mathematics will 

 appear in Science. 



Among the discussions of general in- 

 terest was the very vigorous one before 

 Section I on "The Panic of 1907, and the 

 Monetary System of the Nation." It is 

 hoped that a full report of each of these 

 general discussions will appear later in 

 this journal. 



The American Chemical Society, in 

 affiliation with Section C, held a large and 



