October 8, 1915] 



SCIENCE 



475 



Yosemite Valley and to tlie Monterey Penin- 

 sula and the Carnegie Desert Laboratory at 

 Carmel. 



The sections and societies meeting inde- 

 pendently or in conjunction with these sections 

 upon this occasion were as follows : 



Section A, Mathematics and Astronomy. 



Section B, Physics. 



Section F, Zoology. 



Section G, Botany. 



Section H, Anthropology and Psychology. 



Section L, Education. 



Section M, Agriculture. 



Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 



American Astronomical Society. 



American Mathematical Society. 



American Physical Society. 



Geological Society of America and the Cordil- 

 leran Section. 



Paleontological Society. 



Seismological Society of America. 



American Society of Naturalists. 



American Society of Zoologists. 



Biological Society of the Pacific. 



Entomological Society of America. 



American Association of Economic Entomolo- 

 gists (August 9 and 10). 



Pacific Slope Association of Economic Entomol- 

 ogists (August 9 and 10). 



American Phytopathologieal Society. 



American Fern Society. 



American Psychological Association. 



American Association for the Study of the 

 Feeble-Minded. 



American Anthropological Association. 



Archeologieal Institute of America. 



American Genetic Association. 



Association of American Dairy, Pood and Drug 

 Officials. 



Altogether over ninety sessions of the as- 

 sociation, of sections and of other societies 

 were held during this week of meetings. 



The total registered attendance at these 

 meetings of members of the association or of 

 participating societies was 606. In addition 

 to this registration the names were given of 

 174 ladies accompanying members of the so- 

 cieties. The attendance from states and from 

 abroad was distributed as follows : 



Delaware, 1 

 Florida, 1 

 Idaho, 5 

 Illinois, 9 

 Indiana, 2 

 Iowa, 6 

 Kansas, 8 

 Louisiana, 4 

 Maine, 1 

 Maryland, 5 

 Massachusetts, 12 

 Michigan, 1 

 Minnesota, 9 

 Mississippi, 1 

 Missouri, 13 

 Montana, 4 

 Nebraska, 8 

 Nevada, 10 

 New Hampshire, 1 

 New Jersey, 5 

 New Mexico, 3 

 New York, 24 

 North Dakota, 2 

 Ohio, 9 

 Oklahoma, 1 

 Oregon, 25 



Pennsylvania, 8 

 Rhode Island, 1 

 South Carolina, 1 

 South Dakota, 1 

 Tennessee, 1 

 Texas, 8 

 Utah, 9 

 Vermont, 1 

 Virginia, 1 

 Washington, 19 

 Washington, D. C, 31 

 West Virginia, 2 

 Wisconsin, 3 

 Wyoming, 2 

 Canada, 7 

 China, 1 

 Cuba, 1 

 Denmark, 1 

 England, 3 

 Hawaiian Islands, 8 

 Japan, 4 

 Mexico, 2 

 New Zealand, 1 

 Philippine Islands, 3 

 Sweden, 1 

 Syria, 1 

 Albert L. Baerows, 

 Secretary^ Pacific Division 



Arizona, 7 

 California, 300 



Colorado, 4 

 Connecticut, 4 



FABMING AND FOOD SUPPLIES IN TIME 

 OF WAEJ- 



Ageicultuke is the antithesis of war- 

 fare; farming is preeminently a peaceful 

 avocation, and farmers are essentially men 

 of peace. The husbandman is not easily 

 disturbed by war's alarms, and his intimate 

 association with the placid and inevitable 

 processes of nature engenders a calmness of 

 spirit which is unshaken by catastrophe. 

 Many stories illustrative of this attitude of 

 mind come to us from the battlefields. The 

 complete detachment of the fighting men 

 from the rest of the community which was 

 usual up to quite recent times is impossible 

 in these days when in almost every country 

 the army is not a class but the nation. It 

 is inconceivable now that a war could rage 

 of which it could be said, as has been said 

 of our civil war: 



Excepting those who were directly engaged in 

 the struggle, men seemed to follow their ordinary 



1 Address of the president to the Agricultural 

 Section of the British Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, Manchester, 1915. 



