Maech 13, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



413 



D. Louderback, Herbert E. Gregory, W. 

 G. Miller, T. L. Walker, Andrew C. Law- 

 son, C. W. Hayes, G. D. Harris, Alfred W. 

 G. Wilson, R. W. Brock, A. H. Purdue, I. 

 C. White, Frank R. Van Horn, Alfred C. 

 Lane, H. M. Ami, J. S. Diller, H. P. Gush- 

 ing, A. P. Coleman, R. D. George, Samuel 

 Calvin, W. G. Tight, John E. Wolff, Arthur 

 M. Miller, F. W. Cragin and E. 0. Hovey. 

 There were in addition at least five visit- 

 ing geologists, not members of the society, 

 and many students and casual visitors. 



The Cordilleran Section met with the 

 general society. On Tuesday, December 

 31, the section held a business session at 

 which Andrew C. Lawson and George D. 

 Louderback were reelected chairman and 

 secretary respectively. 



The following officers were elected by 

 the general society for the year 1908 : 



President — Samuel Calvin, Iowa City, Iowa. 



First Vice-president — George F. Becker, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Second Vice-president — A. C. Lawson, Berkeley, 

 California. 



Secretary — Edmund Otis Hovey, New York 

 City. 



Treasurer — William Bullock Clark, Baltimore, 

 Md. 



Editor — Joseph Stanley-Brown, Cold Spring 

 Harbor, N. Y. 



Librarian — H. P. Cushing, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Councilors — H. P. Cushing, Cleveland, Ohio, and 

 H. B. Patton, Golden, Colorado. 



The council voted to accept the invita- 

 tion which had been received from the 

 authorities of Yale University to meet in 

 New Haven, Conn., next winter. It was 

 decided to hold the meeting during the 

 week of December 29, 1908. 



Edmund Otis Hovey, 



Secretary 



THE AMERICAN BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION 

 The fourth annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Breeders' Association was held at 

 Washington, January 28-30, 1908. This 

 association now comprises about 1,100 



members and includes the more active 

 breeders of the country, both those engaged 

 in plant breeding and those who are breed- 

 ing animals. It has attempted to bring 

 together those who are doing breeding work 

 with scientific aims and those whose aims 

 are pi'imarily commercial or "fancy." 

 This attempt has been successful to a, 

 marked degree ; not only in the meetings of 

 the association, which have been well at- 

 tended by all classes of breeders, but also in 

 the three year-books which have appeared 

 and which undoubtedly have skimmed the 

 cream of the stupendous yield of results of 

 the breeding industry during the past few 

 years. Take, for example, the last year- 

 book. It contains papers on breeding 

 horses by Professor C. W. Gay, of the 

 Ohio State University; cattelo by C. J. 

 Jones ("Buffalo" Jones), of Nevada; 

 dairy cattle by M. A. Scoville, Director of 

 the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment 

 Station; swine by Professor D. A. Gaum- 

 nitz of the Minnesota Station, and Geo. M. 

 Rommel, of the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture; poultry by Professor J. E. Rice, 

 of Cornell University; sugar beets by J. E. 

 W. Tracy, of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture; corn by Eugene and J. D. 

 Funk, of Punk Brothers, Illinois, leading 

 commercial breeders; carnations by J. B. 

 Norton; nut and forest trees by Messrs. 

 Sudworth and A. D. Hopkins, of Wash- 

 ington. There are theoretical papers by 

 Castle, Shull, Q. I. Simpson, C. W. Ward, 

 Spillman and others, the commercial men 

 uniting with the theoretical men in these 

 papers also. 



The Washington meeting was not behind 

 its predecessors in interest. Reports of 

 committees occupied, perhaps, a larger part 

 of the program than hitherto. Among 

 these reports may be mentioned that of Mr. 

 David G. Faii'child on the "Introduction 

 of Animals and Plants." He called at- 

 tention to the danger of introducing 



