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bia University, New York, IST. T., and which 

 when filled and accompanied by testimonials 

 and complete statements of the applicant's 

 qualifications will he submitted by him to the 

 committee on March 1, 1915. Applications 

 must be received by the secretary of Columbia 

 University before this date. 



The committee requires that applicants 

 should be qualified by proper geological train- 

 ing and experience to undertake the investi- 

 gation of some problem in or related to eco- 

 nomic geology. Each candidate is expected to 

 submit with his application a definite state- 

 ment of the problem which he proposes to 

 study. The carrying out of the investigation 

 will be under the oversight of the committee 

 and may be undertaken at any place or 

 institution which may be preferred by the 

 holder of the fellowship and which will 

 meet the approval of the committee. The 

 place and publication of results will be de- 

 cided by the committee. The committee will 

 require that the holder of the fellowship agree 

 to give his entire time and energies to the 

 problem selected, and further agree to con- 

 tract no other engagements conflicting with 

 or restricting this work without its consent. 

 No objection will be made to the use of the 

 results as a dissertation for the degree of 

 Ph.D. in an approved university. 



TSE SAN FRANCISCO MEETING OF THE 

 AMEMICAN ASSOCIATION FOS THE 

 ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 

 At the meeting of the American Association 

 which will be held in San Francisco and vicin- 

 ity during the week beginning August 2, 1915, 

 the general appointments of the convocation 

 week will be as follows: The opening session 

 at 10:00 A.M., Monday, August 2, the presi- 

 dential address and the reception to visiting 

 scientists on Monday evening and four ad- 

 dresses before the association as a whole. The 

 first of these addresses will be given on Tues- 

 day evening by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, of Nor- 

 way, upon oceanographic research. On Thurs- 

 day evening, Professor E. A. Daly, of Harvard 

 University, will present an address upon prob- 



lems of geologic and biologic interest centering 

 in the Pacific Islands. On Priday evening. 

 Professor W. B. Scott, of Princeton Univer- 

 sity, will present an address upon the paleon- 

 tologic relations of North and South America. 

 A final address will be provided for Satur- 

 day evening, August 7, upon issues concern- 

 ing the peoples of the Pacific area. 



These general addresses will be given in San 

 Francisco. The section and society meetings 

 will be held on "Wednesday, August 5, at 

 Stanford University, and on the remaining 

 days of the week at the University of Cali- 

 fornia in Berkeley. 



The geological sessions will be in charge of 

 the Geological Society of America and will be 

 devoted to discussions of erosion and deposition 

 in arid climates, diastrophism of the Pacific 

 coast and petrological problems of the Pacific 

 area. The topics of the meetings of the Pale- 

 ontological Society include a discussion of the 

 fundamental criteria used in determining the 

 time relations of widely separated life assem- 

 blages and rock systems, followed by three 

 sjonposia upon the special problems encoun- 

 tered in correlation of the Triassic, Cretace- 

 ous and Miocene of the Pacific coast with hori- 

 zons referred to these periods in other parts 

 of the world. Special papers on other topics 

 of interest will be presented. 



Zoological sessions are being planned for the 

 discussion of general problems of zoology, evo- 

 lution and development, of regulation, of geo- 

 graphic distribution, of marine biology, the 

 conservation of wild life, and recent advances 

 in the field of protozoology. 



The opening session of the botanical meet- 

 ings will be devoted to the taxonomy, morphol- 

 ogy, history and distribution of Gymnosperms. 

 Subjects discussed at other sessions will be 

 the effects of light upon plants, the geographic 

 distribution of plants with especial reference 

 to the possible origin of the California fiiora, 

 and marine and fresh-water Algse. 



The subjects of the anthropological meet- 

 ings will be: Eaces in the Pacific area with 

 reference to the origin of the American 

 Indians; the history of civilization in the 

 Pacific area, with reference to the relations be- 



