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vicinity, the one on Tuesday night, at 8 o'clock, 

 being by Dr. Dayton 0. Miller on " The Sci- 

 ence of Musical Sounds." On Wednesday 

 night, at 8 o'clock. Dr. William H. Nichols 

 ■will lecture on " The War and the Chemical 

 Industry." The titles of the addresses by the 

 retiring vice-presidents of the sections, to be 

 delivered during the week before the respective 

 sections of the association are as follov^s: 



Vice-president Alfred D. Cole, before the Sec- 

 tion of Physics: "Recent Evidence for the Ex- 

 istence of the Nucleus Atom." 



Vice-president Henry C. Cowles, before the Sec- 

 tion of Botany: "The Economic Trend of Bot- 

 any. ' ' 



Vice-president Walter B. Pillsbury, before the 

 Section of Anthropology and Psychology: "The 

 Function and Test of Definition and Method in 

 Psychology. ' ' 



Vice-president Frank Sehlesinger, before the 

 Section of Mathematics and Astronomy : "The 

 Object of Astronomical and Mathematical Ee- 

 seareh. ' ' 



Vice-president L. H. Bailey, before the Section 

 of Agriculture: "The Place of Research and of 

 Publicity in the Forthcoming Country Life De- 

 velopment. ' ' 



Vice-president P. P. Claxton, before the Sec- 

 tion of Education: "The American Rural 

 School. ' ' 



Vice-president O. P. Hood, before the Section 

 of Engineering : ' ' Safety Engineering. ' ' 



Vice-president Joseph S. Diller, before the Sec- 

 tion of Geology and Geography: "The Relief of 

 our Pacific Coast." 



Vice-president Theodore Hough, before the Sec- 

 tion of Physiology and Experimental Medicine: 

 "The Classification of Nervous Reactions." 



Vice-president Judson G. Wall, before the Sec- 

 tion of Social and Economic Science: "Social 

 and Economic Value of Industrial Museums." 



Vice-president Alfred G. Mayer, before the Sec- 

 tion of Zoology: "The Research Work of the 

 Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington. ' ' 



Vice-president Carl S. Alsberg, before the Sec- 

 tion of Chemistry: "Fermentation." 



A notable event of the meeting will be the 

 organization of the new Section of Agriculture. 

 Vice-president L. H. Bailey will deliver his 

 address this year, and the new section will 



hold its S3Tnposium at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, 

 December 30, on the subject of " The Field of 

 Rural Economics." 



Other symposia will be held as follows: 

 Section B and the American Physical Society 

 at 3 P.M., Tuesday, December 29, on The Use 

 of Dimensional Equations; Section K, at 2.45 

 P.M., Thursday, December 31, on the subject of 

 Ventilation; at the same time, one will be held 

 by Section F, the American Society of Natu- 

 ralists, the Botanical Society of America and 

 the Society of American Bacteriologists, on 

 The Value of Zoology to Humanity; and at 

 11 A.M., Friday, January 1, by Sections C and 

 K on the subject of The Role of Nitro- 

 Organisms. 



An unusual number of affiliated societies 

 will meet with the association this year and 

 will hold their sessions as indicated in another 

 article in this issue concerning the Philadel- 

 phia meeting. The hotel headquarters will 

 be at the Hotel Adelphia, Philadelphia's new- 

 est hotel. General headquarters will be at the 

 Houston Club, University of Pennsylvania. 



L. O. Howard 



TBE CONVOCATION WEEK MEETING OF 

 SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and the national scientific 

 societies named below will meet at Philadel- 

 phia, during convocation week, beginning on 

 December 28, 1914: 



American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. — President, Dr. Charles W. Eliot, Har- 

 vard University; retiring president, Professor 

 Edmund B. Wilson, Columbia University; perma- 

 nent secretary, Dr. L. O. Howard, Smithsonian 

 Institution, Washington, D. C. ; general secretary, 

 Professor William A. Worsham, Jr., State Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, Athens, Ga.; secretary of 

 the council, Mr. Henry Skinner, Academy of Nat- 

 ural Sciences, Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Section A — Mathematics and Astronomy. — 

 Vice-president, Professor Henry 8. White, Vassar 

 College; secretary, Professor Forest E. Moulton, 

 University of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 



Section B — Physics. — Vice-president, Professor 

 Anthony Zeleny, University of Minnesota; see- 



