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able those measures legislative, international and 

 local which will prevent the now imminent ex- 

 termination of the great marine vertebrata, espe- 

 cially the cetaceans and manatees, seals, green 

 and other turtles on the coasts of the United 

 States or in the high seas. 



The secretary of the committee on Seis- 

 mology submitted the following resolutions 

 which were adopted: 



Whereas, The organized study of earthquakes 

 lately undertaken in other countries is leading to 

 a better understanding of their causes and to the 

 discovery and adoption of means for mitigating 

 their disastrous consequences, be it 



Resolved, That, in the opinion of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, the 

 government of the United States should at once 

 make suitable provision for the installation and 

 maintenance of seismographs in properly distrib- 

 uted stations, and, 



Whereas, The United States Weather Bureau 

 is the best equipped of the government bureaus 

 for undertaking these studies, be it further 



Resolved, That in the opinion of this associa- 

 tion the necessary appropriations should be made 

 to the Department of Agriculture for the United 

 States Weather Bureau, and be it further 



Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be 

 forwarded to the Committee on Agriculture of 

 the United States House of Representatives. 



At the suggestion of the Committee on 

 Policy, as appears below, the following 

 resolution was adopted : 



Whereas, The late Major James Carroll, M.D., 

 U.S.A., was the first to submit voluntarily to the 

 bite of an infected Stegomyia and from the bite 

 of this mosquito suffered a severe attack of yellow 

 fever, the effects of which led to his ultimate 

 death, and 



Whereas, This was the first experimentally- 

 produced case of yellow fever leading to the pres- 

 ent knowledge of this disease, which has prac- 

 tically enabled its complete control, therefore, be it 



Resolved, That the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science now in session in 

 Chicago, 111., recommends to the Senate and to 

 the House of Representatives of the United States 

 of America the passage of a bill securing to Mrs. 

 Jennie Carroll, widow of the late Major James 

 Carroll, of the Yellow Fever Commission of the 

 United States Army, a special pension for the 

 support of herself and her seven children. 



The Darwin Memorial Committee, ap- 

 pointed at the New York meeting, reported 

 as follows: 

 To the American Association for the Advancement 



of Science: 



Charles Darwin was born February, 1809, and 

 the " Origin of Species " appeared in November, 

 1859. In celebrating the semi-centennial of the 

 latter we have the opportunity of celebrating the 

 centennial of the former. Your committee conse- 

 quently recommends : 



1. This double celebration. 



2. The date of the celebration to be during Con- 

 vocation Week, 1908-9. 



3. That the method of celebration be as follows: 

 (a) That a morning and afternoon of the meet- 

 ings of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science during Convocation Week, 1908-9, 

 be devoted to a series of addresses on various as- 

 pects of the theory of evolution, and that these be 

 given solely by persons actively engaged in re- 

 search bearing on evolution. 



{ h ) That a dinner be arranged on the evening 

 of the same day, followed by addresses of a more 

 general nature concerning Dar\vin and his work. 



( c ) That all addresses be published in a Darwin 

 Anniversary volume, to appear during 1909, the 

 anniversary year. 



{d) That the committee have full power to ar- 

 range the program. 



4. It is recommended that the committee be 

 authorized to raise a fund to pay the expenses of 

 Mr. Francis Darwin or other foreign speaker or 

 speakers. 



The Committee on the Investigation of 

 the Cave Fauna of North America pre- 

 sented through the recorder, Professor C. 

 H. Eigenmann, a report which will be 

 printed later. 



The Committee on Seismology through 

 its secretary. Professor Wm. H. Hobbs, 

 reported as follows : 



Your committee organized with Professor H. F. 

 Reid, of Johns Hopkins University, as chairman, 

 and Professor W. H. Hobbs, of the University of 

 Michigan, as secretary. The following sub-com- 

 mittees were named: 



1, A committee to determine the best form or 

 forms of seismograph for the seismologioal sta- 

 tions to be established; Messrs. Reid, Marvin and 

 Bauer. 



