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SCIENCE 



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graphic distribution of mem'bers and attendants 

 was interestingj Ohio naturally leading with one 

 hundred and eighty-one. The other figures are as 

 follows: New York, 59, Michigan 27, Massachu- 

 setts 24, Minnesota 18, Missouri 14, District of 

 Columbia 32, Illinois 63, Indiana 34, Iowa 22, 

 Kansas 17, Pennsylvania 31, Wisconsin 25, West 

 Virginia 10, and other states represented by less 

 than 10. 



Owing to the impossibility of securing perfect 

 registration, the accurate number of scientific men 

 and women in Columbus can not be stated, but it 

 is safe to say that it approximated nine hundred. 



Much interest was shown at the meeting by the 

 citizens of Columbus, and the meetings of all the 

 sections and affiliated societies were extremely 

 well attended. The smokers and dinners were all 

 successful. 



The symposia of the meeting were as follows: 



Before Section F and the American Society of 

 Zoologists on the topic "The Basis of Individual- 

 ity in Organisms, ' ' the speakers being C. M. Child, 



E. G. ConkUn, 0. C. Glaser, C. E. MeClung and 

 H. V. Neal. 



Before the American Society of Naturalists on 

 the topic "Eecent Advances in the Fundamental 

 Problems of Genetics," the speakers being H. H. 

 Bartlett, W. L. Tower, E. M. East, H. S. Jennings 

 and C. B. Davenport. 



Before Section I, topic "National Defense and 

 Development," there being twelve speakers. 



Before Section K, topic ' ' The Energy Content 

 of the Diet, ' ' the speakers being H. P. Armsby, 

 Buth Wheeler, E. B. Forbes, Carl Voegtlin and C. 



F. Langworthy. 



Before Section M, topic ' ' The Eelation of Sei- 

 enee to Meat Production, ' ' the speakers being W. 

 O. Thompson, H. J. Waters, L. D. Hall, H. W. 

 Miunford and A. R. Ward. 



In spite of the fact that the Geological Society 

 of America was meeting in Washington with the 

 Pan-American Congress at the same time. Sec- 

 tion E held a very important meeting at which 

 twenty-nine papers were presented, topics relating 

 to the geology of Ohio and adjoining states pre- 

 dominating. 



The council passed a resolution to hold a spe- 

 cial meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science in Washington on Jan- 

 uary 4, 1916. 



Two grants were, made by the council, one of 

 one hundred dollars to B. C. Benedict, of Brooklyn, 

 to assist in his investigation of the plants of the 

 fern genus Nephrolepis, and one of two hundred 



and fifty dollars to the Concilium Bibliographicum 

 Zoologieum of Zurich. 



A list of the fellows elected will appear in a 

 near num:ber of Science. 



The arrangements for the entertainment of the 

 visiting ladies were exceptionally pleasant and in 

 the resolutions of thanks, which were passed by 

 the council, especial attention was drawn to the 

 admirable work of the ladies' committee, of which 

 Mrs. W. 0. Thompson, wife of the president of 

 Ohio State University, was chairman. A very in- 

 teresting feature was a twilight musical recital 

 with a MacDowell program, which was given on 

 Wednesday afternoon. 



Election of officers by the General Committee re- 

 sulted as follows: 



President: C. E. Van Hise, University of Wis- 

 consin. 



Vice-presidents as follows: Mathematics, L. P. 

 Eisenhart, Princeton University; physics, H. A. 

 Bumstead, Yale University; engineering, E. L. 

 Corthell, Brown University, Providence, E. I.; 

 geology and geography, E. D. Salisbury, Univer- 

 sity of Chicago ; zoology, G. H. Parker, Harvard 

 University; botany, T. J. Burrill, University of 

 Illinois; anthropology and psychology, F. W. 

 Hodge, chief of the Bureau of Ethnology, Wash- 

 ington, D. C; social and economic science, Louis 

 I. Dublin, New York; education, L. P. Ayres, of 

 the Eussell Sage Foundation, New York; agricul- 

 ture, W. H. Jordan, director of the New York 

 State Experiment Station, Geneva, N. Y. 



The vice-presidents of Sections C and K were 

 not elected, but power was given to the sectional 

 committees to elect. Professor W. E. Henderson, 

 of Ohio State University, was elected general sec- 

 retary and Dr. C. Stuart Gager was made secre- 

 tary of the council. Dr. A. F. Blakeslee was 

 elected secretary of Section G and Mr. S. C. 

 Loomis, secretary of Section I. 



New York was selected as the place for the 

 Convocation Week meeting of 1916-17, the open- 

 ing meeting to be held on the night of December 

 26, and the first council meeting on the morning 

 of December 27, 1916. 



The general committee recommended to the gen- 

 eral committee of next year the selection of Pitts- 

 burgh as the meeting place for 1917-18. 



In the absence of the general secretary. Dr. 

 Henry Skinner, of Philadelphia, Dr. Henry B. 

 Ward, of Urbana, acted as general secretary, but 

 the present brief report of the meeting has been 

 drawn up by the permanent secretary. 



L. O. Howard 



