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SCIENCE 



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also voted to hold a summer meeting, prob- 

 ably during the week beginning June 28, 

 1908, at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. 

 H. 



Dr. T. C. Chamberlin, of the University 

 of Chicago, was elected president of the 

 association. 



Dr. J. Paul Goode, of the same institu- 

 tion, was elected general secretary. 



Dr. Dayton C. Miller, of Case School of 

 Applied Science, was chosen secretary of 

 the council. 



The sectional officers stand as follows : 



A — Mathematics and Astronomy. 



Vice-president — C. J. Keyser, Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 

 Secretary/ — Professor G. A. Miller, University 

 of Illinois. 

 B — Physics. 



Vice-president — Carl E. Guthe, State University 



of Iowa. 

 Secretary — A. D. Cole, Vassar College. 

 C — Chemistry. 



Vice-president — Louis Kahlenberg, University 



of Wisconsin. 

 Secretary — C. H. Herty, University of North 

 Carolina. 

 D — Meclianical Science and Engineering. 



Vice-president — Geo. F. Swain, Massachusetts 



Institute of Technology. 

 Secretary — G. W. Bissell, Michigan Agricultural 

 College. 

 E — Geology and Geography. 



Vice-president — Bailey Willis, U. S. Geological 



Survey. 

 Secretary — F. P. Gulliver, Norwich, Conn. 

 1'' — Zoology. 



Vice-president — C. Judson Herrick, University 



of Chicago. 

 Secretary — Morris A. Bigelow, Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 

 G — ^Botany. 



Vice-president — H. M. Richards, Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 

 Secretary — H. C. Cowles, University of Chicago. 

 H — ^Anthropology and Psychology. 



Vice-president — R. S. Woodworth, Columbia 



University. 

 Secretary — Geo. H. Pepper, American Museum 

 of Natural History. 

 I — Social and Economic Science. 

 Vice-president not chosen. 



Secretary — J. Pease Norton, Yale University. 

 K — Physiology and Experimental Medicine. 



Vice-president — Wm. H. Howell, Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



Secretary — William J. Gies, Columbia Univer- 

 sity. 

 L — Education. 



Vice-president — G. Stanley Hall, Clark Univer- 

 sity. 



Secretary — C. R. Mann, Universitj' of Chicago. 



P. W. McNaie, 

 General Secretary 



TEE INTERDEPENDENCE OF MEDICINE 

 AND OTHER SCIENCES OF NATURE' 



Sixty years ago, when the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence was founded, all of the main divisions 

 of the sciences of nature existed as they 

 do to-day, but no greater change has come 

 over the face of science during these years 

 than the many subdivisions which have 

 arisen. Then the naturalist or the nat- 

 ural philosopher— how unfamiliar even the 

 names are beginning to sound! — or the 

 chemist could follow with critical .judgment 

 at least the work of all who were cultiva- 

 ting his own broad field of science, and a 

 single scientific association, such as ours, 

 could unite all of the workers in the nat- 

 ural and physical sciences into a relatively 

 homogeneous and compact group, supply 

 their needs for intercourse with each other 

 and furnish a comprehending audience for 

 presentation of the results of scientific in- 

 vestigation. To-day no man of science can 

 pretend to follow all of the work even in 

 his own department, and the investigator 

 more often than not must seek an audience 

 capable of critical understanding and dis- 

 cussion of his studies in a society of biolog- 

 ical chemists, or of experimental zoologists, 

 or of plant pathologists, or of dairy bac- 

 teriologists, or whatever may be the body 



' Address of the retiring president of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 delivered at the meeting in Chicago, December 

 30, 1907. 



