SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XLII. No. 1071 



increase in gold output; while in Alaska the 

 outlook is good for increased output of copper 

 as well as gold. More Alaska mines are on a 

 producing basis this year and more dredges are 

 in operation. 



TEE PACIFIC COAST MEETING OF TSE 

 AMEBIC AN ASSOCIATION 



Times and Places of Meeting. — The opening 

 session of the Pacific Coast meeting of the 

 American Association, for the presentation of 

 the addresses of welcome and the response 

 thereto, for announcements, and for the presi- 

 dent's address, will be held in San Francisco 

 at 10:00 o'clock, Monday morning, August 2, 

 in the Scottish Rite Auditorium, corner Sutter 

 Street and Van Ness Avenue. The social re- 

 ception to visiting scientists and their friends 

 will occur on Monday evening in the reception 

 rooms of the California Host Building, Expo- 

 sition Grounds. The general sessions of the 

 association, including three lectures on Pacific 

 region subjects, will be held in San Francisco 

 in the Scottish Rite Auditorium on Tuesday, 

 Thursday and Friday evenings. There will be 

 no session or lecture on Saturday evening. 

 The sessions of the association and of the 

 affiliated societies on Wednesday, August 4, 

 will be at Stanford University. It is expected 

 that a special train will leave San Francisco 

 at a convenient hour Wednesday morning for 

 Palo Alto and return to San Francisco late in 

 the afternoon. All other sessions of the week 

 will be held at the University of California, 

 in Berkeley. 



Registration and Information Offices. — The 

 general headquarters of the association during 

 convocation week, August 2 to 7, wiU be in 

 the Hearst Mining Building, on the campus 

 of the University of California, Berkeley. 

 Secondary offices will be maintained: in San 

 Francisco from Saturday noon, July 31, to 

 Friday noon, August 6, in the Palace Hotel ; in 

 San Francisco on Monday forenoon, August 

 2, in the Scottish Rite Building, Sutter Street 

 and Van Ness Avenue; and in Stanford Uni- 

 versity on Wednesday, August 4. Members 

 will secure badges and programs upon regis- 

 tration. Mail addressed in care of the Hearst 



Mining Building, University of California, 

 will be delivered as promptly as possible to 

 those who have registered. 



Hotel Headquarters. — Local representatives 

 of several of the affiliated societies have an- 

 nounced selections of hotel headquarters as 

 follows : 



American Astronomical Society and the American 

 Mathematical Society, Hotel Claremont, Berk- 

 eley. 



American Physical Society, Hotel Claremont, Berk- 

 eley. 



Geological Society of America, Paleontological So- 

 ciety of America and Seismological Society of 

 America, Hotel Shattuck, Berkeley. 



Botanical Society of America, Hotel Carlton, Berk- 

 eley. 



Zoological Society of America and the Biological 

 Society of the Pacific, Hotel Carlton, Berkeley. 



Entomological Society of America, Hotel Clare- 

 mont, Berkeley. 



American Anthropological Association, Hotel Carl- 

 ton, Berkeley. 



American Genetic Society, Hotel Claremont, Berk- 

 eley. 



American Psychological Association, Hotel Plaza, 

 San Francisco, Post and Stockton Streets. 



Archeological Institute of America, Hotel Bellevue, 

 San Praneiseo, Geary and Taylor Streets. 



Railway TicTcets. — Round trip special Expo- 

 sition railway tickets at greatly reduced rates 

 are available from all points to San Francisco, 

 Los Angeles or San Diego as the destination. 

 The price of tickets from points east of the 

 Rocky Mountains is the same whether the 

 destination be San Francisco, Los Angeles or 

 San Diego. The trip going and returning 

 may be by the same route or by different 

 routes, but the routes described on the tickets 

 must be followed. Tickets from Chicago and 

 farther east are valid going or returning via 

 New Orleans. Tickets via Portland, Seattle, 

 etc., involve a supplementary charge, concern- 

 ing which the local railway representatives 

 should be consulted. The baggage of those 

 who intend to stay in Berkeley should be 

 cheeked directly to Berkeley, California (by 

 either the Southern Pacific or Santa Fe routes) 

 instead of to San Francisco. All round trip 

 tickets require validation for the return trip. 



