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for the completion of their papers, such time 

 will, within reasonable limits, be allowed; 

 the speakers will then be saved from the disap- 

 pointment of being interrupted before their 

 conclusions are reached, and the officers wiU be 

 relieved from the embarrassment of enforcing 

 the rule regarding the time-limit. 



3. It is particularly urged that diagrams and 

 charts should be made on such a scale that 

 they can be deciphered easily at a distance of 

 30 or 40 feet ; and that lantern slides should be 

 exhibited in moderate number, only such being 

 chosen as directly illustrate the subject under 

 discussion. Lantern slides should, if possible, 

 be introduced as the points that they illustrate 

 are reached, rather than after the conclusion 

 of the paper. 



By invitation of the fellows residing in 

 Princeton the usual smoker or general social 

 gathering will be held on Tuesday erening, 

 the 30th, after the presidential address. The 

 customary subscription dinner will take place 

 Wednesday evening. 



A valuable feature of the regular and social 

 sessions of the annual meetings has always 

 been the attendance of students and other 

 junior workers in geological science, as 

 visitors. The council desires to increase the 

 number of such attendants, and with this ob- 

 ject requests each fellow to send to the secre- 

 tary, not later than December 10, the names 

 and addresses of persons who, whether they can 

 attend the meeting or not, are seriously inter- 

 ested in geology and deserving of recognition 

 as visitors, although they have not yet reached 

 such standing as to gain membership in the 

 society. The council will then write to the 

 persons thus nominated, inviting them to at- 

 tend the Princeton meeting. 



The Paleontological Society will hold its 

 annual nieeting in connection with the meet- 

 ing of the Geological Society, the sessions 

 beginning on Wednesday, December 31, 1913. 

 Detailed information regarding this meeting 

 may be obtained from Dr. E. S. Bassler, IT. S. 

 National Museum, Washington, D. C, Secre- 

 tary of the Society. 



Edmund Otis Hovet, 



Secretary 



THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN BACTERIOL- 

 OGISTS 



The annual meeting of the Society will be 

 held in Montreal, December 31, 1913, and 

 January 1 and 2, 1914 under the presidency 

 of Professor C.-E. A. Winslow. The meetings 

 of the society will be held in the new Medical 

 Building of McGill University on December 

 31 and January 2. The society will meet at 

 Macdonald College on January 1, leaving 

 Montreal at 9 :10 a.m., and returning at 5 :42 

 P.M. Luncheon will be served to the members 

 at Macdonald College. 



The annual dinner will be held at the Uni- 

 versity Club on the evening of January 1. The 

 president's address " The Characterization and 

 Classification of Bacterial Types " will follow 

 the dinner. 



The program is divided into topics each of 

 which will occupy one session of the meeting. 

 Titles of papers should be in the hands of the 

 Program Committee not later than November 

 20, 1913. 

 Soil Bacteriology — Otto Rahn, University of lUi- 



noig, Urbana, lUinois. 

 Sanitary Bacteriology — including Water and Dairy 



Bacteriology — H. W. Hill, Institute Public 



Health, London, Ontario, Canada. 

 Systematic Bacteriology — H. J. Conn, Geneva, New 



York. 

 Technic — L. A. Rogers, Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Washington, D. C. 

 Immunity — Benjamin White, Director of Hoagland 



Laboratory, Brooklyn, New York. 

 Pathology— P. F. Clark, No. 1027 N. Caroline 



Street, Baltimore, Md. 



Typewritten abstracts of papers (not more 

 than 300 words) should be in the hands of the 

 secretary not later than the last session. These 

 abstracts last year were published in Science 

 and Cent. f. Baht. 



A. Parker Hitchens, 



Secretary 

 Glenolden, Pennsylvania 



TSE ATLANTA MEETING OF THE AMERI- 

 CAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD- 

 VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 

 The sixty-fifth meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 



