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SCIENCE 



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Testigation, at least in an atmosphere of in- 

 vestigation, and anything that vitiates this at- 

 mosphere impairs our teaching function as 

 well. 



The universities must see to it, therefore, 

 that there is developed a renewed appreciation 

 of the place of research in the university, and 

 an increasing determination to permit no 

 other function to diminish its opportunity, 

 and to allow no method of administration to 

 depress its spirit. John M. Coulter 



Univeksitt of Chicago 



THE SAN DIEGO MEETING OF THE 

 PACIFIC DIVISION OF THE AMER- 

 ICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 

 ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



Se'^^ral societies have determined to parti- 

 cipate in the San Diego meeting of the Pacific 

 Division of the American Association occur- 

 ring between the dates, August 9 and 12, 1916. 

 These societies will welcome the presentation 

 of worthy papers from any of their members 

 or from any members of the Pacific Division. 

 Titles of papers to be presented, together with 

 brief abstracts of their contents, should be for- 

 warded to the secretary of the society before 

 which the paper is to be offered as soon as pos- 

 sible and well in advance of the date of the 

 meeting. The societies which will meet at 

 San Diego are: 



The Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Secre- 

 tary, D. S. Eiehardson, 2541 HUgard Avenue, 

 Berkeley, California; the Cordilleran Section, Geo- 

 logical Society of America, Secretary, J. A. Taff, 

 781 Flood Bldg., San Francisco, California; the 

 Western Society of Naturalists, Secretary, E. L. 

 Michael, La JoUa, California, meeting in conjunc- 

 tion with the San Diego Natural History Society 

 and the Pacific Slope Branch of the American 

 Phytopathological Society; the Pacific Slope 

 Branch, American Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists, Secretary E. O. Essig, University of 

 California, Berkeley, and the Ecological Society 

 of America, Secretary, Forrest Shreve, Desert 

 Botanical Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona. 



The opening of the San Diego meeting wiU 

 be preceded on "Wednesday, August 9, by exer- 

 cises for the dedication of the recently com- 

 pleted museum building and concrete pier at 



the Scripps Institution for Biological Research 

 at La Jolla near San Diego. At the opening 

 session of the meeting of the Pacific Division 

 will be given the annual address of the Presi- 

 dent of the Division, Dr. W. "W. Campbell, di- 

 rector of the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamil- 

 ton, California, upon the subject, " What we 

 know about Comets." This address will be 

 followed by a reception to visiting scientists. 

 On Thursday and Friday evenings, August 10 

 and 11, two other general public addresses will 

 be given by Dr. Barton W. Evermann, director 

 of the museum, California Academy of Sci- 

 ences, San Prancisco, upon the subject, " Mod- 

 ern Natural History Museums and their Rela- 

 tion to Public Education," and Dr. F. F. Wes- 

 brook, president of the University of British 

 Coliunbia, upon a subject to be announced 

 later. 



The San Diego committee in charge of the 

 local preparations for this meeting is as 

 follows : 



Dr. Fred Baker, Point Lonia, chairman; W. C. 

 Crandall, business manager of the Scripps Institu- 

 tion for Biological Research, La Jolla; Stanley 

 Hale, San Diego County Chamber of Commerce, 

 San Diego; E. L. Hardy, president of the Cali- 

 fornia State Normal School, San Diego; Dr. E. L. 

 Hewitt, director of the School of American Archeol- 

 ogy, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Duncan MacKinnon, 

 superintendent of schools, San Diego, and Dr. Wm. 

 E. Fitter, director of the Scripps Institution for 

 Biological Research, La Jolla. 



In addition to the three general meetings of 

 the Division and the meetings of participating 

 societies on Thursday and Friday, a number of 

 excursions to points of special scientific inter- 

 est in the vicinity of San Diego are being 

 planned. The committee in charge of these 

 excursions consists of the following members 

 of the staff of the Scripps Institution for Bio- 

 logical Research, La Jolla : Dr. F. B. Sumner, 

 chairman, Dr. George F. McEwen and E. L. 

 Michael. 



The usual excursion rates of a fare and a 

 third have been granted by the railroads from 

 points in the states of Arizona, California, 

 Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada and Utah, 

 and from British Columbia. In taking ad- 

 vantage of these rates, members are cautioned 



