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were essentially joint sessions, though under 

 the auspices of the American Chemical So- 

 ciety. Two addresses and 8 papers were pre- 

 sented at the general meetings. Sixteen papers 

 were read before the Division of Agricultural 

 and Food Chemistry, 12 before the Division of 

 Fertilizer Chemistry, 4 before the Division of 

 Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and 8 before the 

 Chemical Education Section. The largest 

 number of papers, 4Y, was given before the 

 Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemis- 

 try; 44 were read before the Biological Sec- 

 tion, 2Y before the Industrial Chemists and 

 Chemical Engineers, and 17 before the Divi- 

 sion of Organic Chemistry. 



Twelve papers were presented before Section 

 D in the symposium on aeronautics, and 10 

 were given on the regular program. Before 

 Section E, the program consisted of 5 papers 

 on Economic Geology, 7 on Structural Geol- 

 ogy, 7 on Glacial Geology and 6 on Geography. 

 Section F and the Central Branch of the 

 American Society of Zoologists met regularly 

 in joint session, with a program containing 43 

 papers. Fifty-eight titles appeared on the 

 programs of the Entomological Society of 

 America and the American Association of 

 Economic Entomologists. The meetings of 

 the Association of Horticultural Inspectors 

 were given largely to reports of committees 

 and to discussions. Five zoological papers 

 were also presented at the meetings of the 

 American Microscopical Society. 



Section G, the Botanical Society of Amer- 

 ica, and the American Phytopathological So- 

 ciety met regularly in joint session, except on 

 Friday morning, when simultaneous sessions 

 of the section and the pathologists were neces- 

 sary to complete the program. The features 

 were the special addresses before the joint 

 session on Wednesday afternoon, under the 

 auspices of Section G, and the symposium on 

 plant pathology at the College of Agriculture 

 on Thursday, under the auspices of the Bo- 

 tanical Society. An interesting innovation 

 was a conference on botanical teaching at the 

 close of the botanical dinner on Thursday 

 evening. Seventy-one papers were presented 

 at the botanical sessions. The program of the 



SullivaHt Moss Society consisted of 12 papers 

 on mosses, liverworts and lichens. The Amer- 

 ican Nature-Study Society held three sym- 

 posia on Friday, devoted to the subjects : 

 " The School Garden as a Nature Study Lab- 

 oratory," " Natural History Museums in Ee- 

 lation to Nature Study Instruction " and 

 " The Organization of Nature Study." 



Section H held no meeting, but the Amer- 

 ican Psychological Association and the West- 

 ern Philosophical Association were both in 

 session. The two met in joint session on 

 Thursday, and in session with Section L on 

 Wednesday. Thirty-four papers were pre- 

 sented. Twelve papers were read before Sec- 

 tion I. The symposium before Section K was 

 devoted to the subject, " Diseases due to 

 Filterable Organisms." In addition, a num- 

 ber of papers were presented in the general 

 program. Section L met in joint session with 

 the American Psychological Association, for 

 the discussion of the topic, " Educational 

 Psychology," and in joint session with the 

 American Federation of Teachers of the 

 Mathematical and Natural Science to discuss 

 the topic, " Methods of Testing the Eesults of 

 Science Teaching." The section also held a 

 general interest session on university exten- 

 sion teaching, in addition to the program of 7 

 reports on investigations in education. The 

 meeting of the American Federation of 

 Teachers of the Mathematical and Natural 

 Sciences was devoted to the reports of com- 

 mittees on various subjects. 



The important actions taken by the council 

 at the Minneapolis meeting were as follows: 



1. A committee on organization and corre- 

 lation was appointed, consisting of nine mem- 

 bers, of which four were to be members of the 

 council. This committee reported the fol- 

 lowing reconamendations : " The committee 

 recommends to the council that each section, 

 when the corresponding aiSliated society is 

 meeting at the same time and place, shall con- 

 fine its sessions at the annual meeting prefer- 

 ably to half a day or at most to two half days, 

 and that the sectional program shall include 

 the address of the vice-president and a series 

 of papers of general interest prepared by in- 



