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vitation issued by the committee of the sec- 

 tion." The recommendation of the committee 

 was adopted, and on motion the council re- 

 solved further that it regards with especial 

 favor holding all sessions under the joint 

 auspices of the section and the appropriate 

 affiliated society. 



2. A resolution was adopted as follows: 

 Whereas serious injury and injustice would be 



done to scientific societies and scientific journals 

 sliould such societies be forbidden to send scien- 

 tific journals to members by second-class postage, 



Resolved, that tlie American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, meeting in Minne- 

 apolis, request the Postmaster General and the 

 Commiitees on the Post Office of the Senate and 

 the House of Representatives to give careful at- 

 tention to the effects of any ruling of the depart- 

 ment that might limit the advancement and dif- 

 fusion of science in this coimtry. 



Resolved, that copies of these resolutions be 

 sent to the Postmaster General and to members 

 of the Committees on Post Office of the Senate 

 and the House of Representatives. 



The officers of the association were in- 

 structed, officially and in the name of the as- 

 sociation, to take such steps as will aid in the 

 passage of the Dodds bill. 



3. The election of fellows of the association 

 was placed upon the basis of professional work 

 in science, in the hope that greater uniform- 

 ity will thus be secured in the action of sec- 

 tional committees. 



4. The usual grant of $200 was given to the 

 Concilium Bibliographicum, and an addi- 

 tional grant of $75 to Professor G. J. Peirce 

 for continuing the study of organisms in 

 brines. 



The general committee voted to hold the 

 next meeting of the association in Washing- 

 ton from December 27 to December 30, and to 

 reaffirm the action contemplating meetings in 

 Cleveland and Toronto for 1912 and 1913 re- 

 spectively. The following officers were chosen 

 for the Washington meeting: 



President — C. E. Bessey, University of Ne- 

 braska. 



Vice-presidents — Section A, Mathematics and 

 Astronomy, E. B. Frost, Yerkes Observatory; 

 Section B, Physics, R. A. Milliken, Chicago Uni- 



versity; Section C, Chemistry, F. K. Cameron, 

 Department of Agriculture, Washington; Section 

 D, Mechanical Science and Engineering, C. S. 

 Howe, Case School of Applied Science; Section E, 

 Geology and Geography, Bohumil Shimek, Univer- 

 sity of Iowa; Section F, Zoology, H. F. Nach- 

 trieb, University of Minnesota; Section G, Bot- 

 any, F. C. Newcombe, University of Michigan; 

 Section H, Anthropology and Psychology, G. T. 

 Ladd, Yale University; Section I, Social and 

 Economic Science, no election; Section K, Physi- 

 ology and Experimental IMedicine, Dr. W. T. 

 Porter, Harvard University; Section L, Educa- 

 tion, E. L. Thorndike, Columbia University. 



General Secretary — John Zeleny, University of 

 Minnesota. 



Secretary of the Council — T. S. Palmer, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Frederic E. Clements, 



General Secretary 



SECTION A— MATHEMATICS AND 

 ASTRONOMY 



As the Chicago Section of the American Mathe- 

 matical Society held its regular Christmas meet- 

 ing in affiliation with the American Association, 

 the special program of Section A did not include 

 any technical mathematical papers. The " gen- 

 eral interest session " of the section was held on 

 Wednesday afternoon. This was a joint session 

 of the Chicago Section of the American Mathe- 

 matical Society and of Section A, and the pro- 

 gram of the session consisted of the vice-presi- 

 dential address by Professor E. W. Brown, of 

 Yale University, and the papers by F. R. Moultou 

 and E. B. Frost, of the University of Chicago. 



A very interesting feature of the meeting was 

 the joint session of Sections A and D and the 

 Chicago Section of the American Mathematical 

 Society. This session was devoted to the report 

 of the committee of twenty, appointed at a sim- 

 ilar meeting in Chicago, in December, 1907, on 

 the question: The teaching of mathematics to 

 students of engineering. During the evening pre- 

 ceding this meeting members of Sections A, B and 

 D and the Chicago Section of the American Math- 

 ematical Society discussed informally questions 

 relating to this report and were afforded excellent 

 opportunities to become better acquainted. 



In the absence of their authors the papers by 

 J. E. Siebel and H. E. Wetherill were read by 

 title. The papers by J. A. Parkhurst and Percival 

 Lowell were read by E. B. Frost and Frederick 

 Slocum, respectively. All the other papers of the 



