December 15, 1911] 



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feel dissatisfied that it is not more complete 

 in scope. 



EicHARD E. Dodge 

 Teachers College, 

 Columbia University 



THE CONVOCATION WEEK MEETINGS OF 

 SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and the national scientific 

 societies named belov? will meet at Washing- 

 ton, D. C, during convocation week, begin- 

 ning on December 27, 1911. 

 • American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. — President, Professor Charles E. Bessey, 

 University of Nebraska; retiring president. Pro- 

 fessor A. A. Michelson, University of Chicago; 

 permanent secretary, Dr. L. O. Howard, Smith- 

 sonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 



Section A — Mathematics and Astronomy. — Vice- 

 president, Professor Edwin B. Frost, Yerkes Ob- 

 servatory; secretary. Professor George A. Miller, 

 University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



Section B — Physics. — Vice-president, Professor 

 Kobert A. Millikan, University of Chicago; secre- 

 tary. Professor A. D. Cole, Ohio State University, 

 Columbus, Ohio. 



Section C — Chemistry. — Vice-president, Frank 

 K. Cameron, U. S. Department of Agriculture; 

 secretary. Professor C. H. Herty, University of 

 North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. 



Section D — Mechanical Science and Engineering. 

 — Vice-president, President Chas. S. Howe, Case 

 School of Applied Science; secretary, G. W. Bis- 

 sell, Michigan Agricultural College, East Lansing, 

 Mich. 



Section E — Geology and Geography. — Vice-presi- 

 dent, Professor Bohumil Shimek, State University 

 of Iowa; secretary. Dr. F. P. Gulliver, Norwich, 

 Conn. 



Section F — Zoology. — Vice-president, Professor 

 Henry F. Nachtrieb, University of Michigan; sec- 

 retary. Professor Maurice A. Bigelow, Teachers 

 College, Columbia University, New York City. 



Section G — Botany. — Vice-president, Professor 

 Frederick C. Newcombe, University of Michigan; 

 secretary. Professor Henry G. Cowles, University 

 of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 



Section H — Anthropology and Psychology. — 

 Vice-president, Professor George T. Ladd, Yale 

 University; secretary. Professor George Grant 

 MacCurdy, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 



Section K — Physiology and Experimental Medi- 

 cine.- — Vice-president, Professor William T. Porter, 

 Harvard Medical School; secretary. Professor 

 George T. Kemp, 8 West 25th St., Baltimore, Md. 

 Section I — Social and Economic Science. — Vice- 

 president, Professor J. Pease Norton, Yale Uni- 

 versity; secretary, Seymour C. Loomis, 69 Church 

 St., New Haven, Conn. 



Section L — Education. — Vice-president, Pro- 

 fessor Edward L. Thorndike, Teachers College, 

 Columbia University; secretary, Professor C. Ri- 

 borg Mann, University of Chicago, Chicago, HI. 



The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of 

 America. — December 27-29. President, Professor 

 E. C. Pickering, Harvard College Observatory; 

 secretary. Professor W. J. Hussey, University of 

 Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 



The American Federation of Teachers of the 

 Mathematical and the Natural Sciences. — Decem- 

 ber 27-28. President, Professor C. E. Mann, 

 University of Chicago; secretary, Eugene Kan- 

 dolph Smith, Polytechnic Preparatory School, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. 



The American Chemical Society. — December 27- 

 30. President, Professor Alexander Smith, Co- 

 lumbia University; secretary. Professor Charles L. 

 Parsons, Durham, N. H. 



The American Society of Biological Chemists. — 

 (Baltimore and Washington.) December 27-29. 

 President, Professor Lafayette B. Mendel, Yale 

 University; secretary. Professor A. N. Richards, 

 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 



The Society of American Bacteriologists. — De- 

 cember 27-29. President, Professor F. P. Gorham, 

 Brown University; secretary, Charles E. Marshall, 

 East Lansing, Mich. 



The American Physiological Society. — (Balti- 

 more and Washington.) December 26-29. Presi- 

 dent, Dr. S. J. Meltzer, Rockefeller Institute for 

 Medical Research, New York City; secretary, Pro- 

 fessor A. J. Carlson, University of Chicago, Chi- 

 cago, 111. 



The Geological Society of America. — December 

 27-29. President, Professor William Morris Davis, 

 Harvard University; secretary. Dr. Edmund Otis 

 Hovey, American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City. 



The Association of American Geographers. — 

 December 28-30. President, Professor Ralph S. 

 Tarr, Cornell University; secretary. Professor Al- 

 bert Perry Brigham, Hamilton, N. T. 



The Paleontological Society. — ^December 28-30. 



