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Address of welcome on behalf of the institutions 

 of learning in the Pacific region, Eavid Starr Jor- 

 dan, chancellor of Leland Stanford Junior Univer- 

 sity. 



Response to the addresses of welcome, Henry 

 Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. 



Announcements, L. O. Howard, permanent sec- 

 retary of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science. 



Address: "Science and Civilization," "William 

 Wallace Campbell, president of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science. 



Other general meetings of the association, 

 as a whole, included three public evening ad- 

 dresses which were presented in San Francisco, 

 also in the Scottish Rite Auditorium: 



Tuesday, August 3, "Problems of the Pacific 

 Islands," Eeginald Alsworth Daly, Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



Thursday, August 5, "The Isthmus of Panama 

 and Its Influence on the Animal Life of North and 

 South America," William Berryman Scott, Prince- 

 ton University. 



Friday, August 6, ' ' The Economic Future of the 

 Pacific," Paul Samuel Reinsch, American Am- 

 bassador to China. 



On Monday evening, August 2, a reception 

 was tendered to the visiting scientists in the 

 California Building on the Exposition grounds, 

 San Francisco. On Thursday afternoon, 

 August 5, a garden fete was prepared for the 

 visiting ladies and for the members of the As- 

 sociation and of affiliated societies in an oak 

 grove on the campus of the University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



The sessions of sections and of societies on 

 Wednesday, August 4, were held at Stanford 

 University. Over 400 members and friends of 

 the association and affiliated societies were 

 taken by a special train from San Francisco to 

 Palo Alto on this occasion. After a general 

 session for addresses of welcome and of re- 

 sponse, luncheon was served in Memorial 

 Court, Stanford University. The afternoon 

 was devoted to meetings of sections and of so- 

 cieties. The visiting ladies were entertained it 

 a musicale in Memorial Church, and later in 

 the afternoon at tea in the Women's Club 

 House. On Wednesday evening upon the re- 



turn from Stanford University, dinners of sev- 

 eral sections and societies were held as follows : 



Section A, Mathematics and Astronomy, the 

 American Mathematical Society, and the American 

 Astronomical Society; Hotel Oakland, Oakland. 



Section B, Physics, and the American Physical 

 Society; Jules CafS, San Francisco. 



The Geological Society of America, the Paleon- 

 tological 'Society, and the Seismological Society; 

 Engineers' Club, Mechanics Institute Building, 

 San Francisco. 



Biological Society of the Pacific, jointly with 

 visiting biologists; Hotel Sutter, San Francisco. 



Section H, Anthropology and Psychology, and 

 the American Psychological Association; Castilian 

 Caf^, San Francisco. 



Section H, Anthropology and Psychology, and 

 the American Anthropological Association; Hang 

 Far Low Cafg, San Francisco. 



Sessions of sections and of societies on other 

 days of the week were held at the University of 

 California, Berkeley. 



During the latter days of the week and in 

 the week succeeding, excursions were organ- 

 ized as follows: 



For mathematicians and astronomers to the 

 Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton, includ- 

 ing a visit to the home of Mrs. Phoebe Apper- 

 son Hearst near Pleasanton. 



For geologists to Hunter's Point, San Fran- 

 cisco, for an examination of Franciscan for- 

 mation; to Point Eeyes Station, Marin 

 County, for an examination of the San An- 

 dreas fault and rift; to Lassen Peak, Shasta 

 County, to note the recent volcanic activity of 

 that mountain ; to Mount Diablo, Contra Costa 

 County, to examine the series of strata com- 

 posing the geosyneline between the Bay of San 

 Francisco and Mount Diablo; and to the Yo- 

 semite Valley region. 



For paleontologists to the shore of San 

 Pablo Bay to examine localities for Cre- 

 taceous, Tertiary and Pleistocene faunas; to 

 the Mount Diablo region; to the Ricardo Plio- 

 cene beds of the Mohave Desert ; to the Pleisto- 

 cene asphalt deposits of Eancho La Brea near 

 Los Angeles; and to the marine Pleistocene 

 deposits near San Pedro. 



For zoologists and botanists to Muir Woods 

 and Mount Tamalpais, and for botanists to the 



