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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVII. No. 696 



American Bacteriologists. Six papers were 

 read. (See the scientific proceedings.) 



EXECUTIVE PEOCEEDINGS 



The following officers were elected for 

 the year 1908-9: 



yice-president of the Association and Chairman 

 of the Section — William H. Howell. 



Secretary — William J. Gies. 



Sectional Committee — Ludvig Hektoen, vice- 

 president, 1907-8; William H. Howell, vice-presi- 

 dent, 1908-9; William J. Gies, secretary, 1905-9; 

 J. McK. Cattell (one year) ; Frederick G. Novy 

 (two years) ; Graham Lusk (three years) ; 

 Jacques Loeb (four years) ; Charles S. Minot 

 (five years). 



Memher of the Council — Edwin O. Jordan. 



Member of the General Committee — ^H. T. Rick- 

 «tts. 



The following resolutions relative to re- 

 search in tropical medicine were presented 

 by the secretary, were unanimously recom- 

 mended for consideration by the associa- 

 tion and were ultimately endorsed by the 

 association in general session: 



Wheeeas: There exists at the present time 

 in Panama an extraordinary opportunity for re- 

 search work in certain phases of tropical medi- 

 cine, through the existence there of well-equipped 

 hospitals and well-trained medical men under the 

 supervision of an expert sanitarian, himself a 

 member of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and 



Whereas: The solution of problems connected 

 with this branch of medicine is of the highest 

 importance to the welfare of this and other coun- 

 tries, be it 



Resolved, That it is the sense of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science that 

 Congress at its present session should appropriate 

 funds for the purpose of establishing a research 

 laboratory on the Isthmus, to be devoted to the 

 solution of existing problems in tropical disease. 



SCIENTIFIC PROCEEDINGS 



First Meeting. — Vice-presidential ad- 

 dress: "Tendencies in Pathology," Simon 

 Flexner. (Published in Science, this vol- 

 ume, p. 128.) 



Second Meeting.— 'Pa'pers in joint session 

 with the American Physiological Society. 



Program 



" A Comparative Study of the Cilimn as a Key 

 to the Structure of Contractile Protoplasm," by 

 C. F. Hodge and 0. P. Bellinger. 



" Daily Life of Amoeba proteus," by C. F. 

 Hodge, D. Gibbs and O. P. Dellinger. 



( I ) " The Reaction of Amoeba to Stimuli of 

 Small Area," (2) "The Effects of Prolonged 

 Centrifugal Force on Paramoeciwm," by J. F. 

 McClendon (by invitation). 



" The Relation of Plasticity to Age in the 

 Dancing Mouse," by R. M. Yerkea. 



" The Bacterio-agglutinating Action of Lymph 

 under Different Conditions of Lymph Formation," 

 by B. Brande (by invitation). 



" The Relative Hemolytic Action of Serum and 

 Lymph under Different Conditions of Lymph 

 Formation," by T. Hughes (by invitation). 



" The Effect of Stimulation of the Vagi upon 

 the Onset and Development of Rigor Mortis of 

 the Mammalian Heart," by S. J. Meltzer and D. 

 R. Joseph. 



" The Osmotic Concentration of the Blood dur- 

 ing Anesthesia," by A. B. Luckhardt (by invi- 

 tation) . 



Third Meeting: — Symposium on Im- 

 munity. 



Program 



Introductory remarks by the chairman, Ludvig 

 Hektoen. 



" A Review of Anaphylaxis, with Especial Ref- 

 erence to Immunity," by M. J. Rosenau and John 

 F. Anderson. 



" Hypersusceptibility and Immunity," by Victor 

 C. Vaughan. 



" The Hemolysins of Animal Tojons," by Pres- 

 ton Eyes. 



" The Differentiation of Homologous Proteins 

 by Senmi Reactions," by S. P. Beebe. 



" On Spirochetal Immunity," by Frederick G. 

 Novy and R. E. Knapp. 



" Immimity in Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever," 

 H. T. Ricketts and L. Gomez. 



"Artificial Immunity to Glucosides," by Will- 

 iam W. Ford. 



" Virulence of Pneumococci in Relation to 

 Phagocytosis," by E. C. Rosenow. 



" The Mechanism of Streptococcus Immunity," 

 by Gustav F. Ruediger. 



" Immunity in Tuberculosis," by Mazryck P. 

 Ravenel. 



" Chemical Aspects of Immunity," by H. Gideon 

 Wells. 



