Decbmbek 5, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



809 



and the twelfth of the " Convocation Week " 

 meetings, will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, 

 from December 29, 1913, to January 3, 1914. 



The council will meet Monday morning, 

 December 29, and each following morning, in 

 the council room, at 9 o'clock. The opening 

 general session of the association will be held 

 at 8 o'clock on the evening of Monday, Decem- 

 ber 29. The meeting will be called to order 

 by the retiring president, Dr. Edward C. 

 Pickering, who will introduce the president of 

 the meeting. Dr. Edmund B. Wilson. After 

 addresses of welcome by Governor John M. 

 Slaton and Mayor James G. Woodward and a 

 reply by President Wilson, the annual address 

 of the retiring president. Dr. Edward C. Pick- 

 ering, will be given on " The Study of the 

 Stars." After the address there will be a 

 reception to members of the association and 

 affiliated societies in Taft Hall. 



The sections and the affiliated societies will 

 meet daily at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Each section 

 will offer a program of general interest at one 

 or two sessions. The sections will arrange 

 programs of special papers only when the 

 corresponding national society does not meet 

 at the same time and place. 



The address of the retiring chairmen of the 

 sections will be given as follows : 



Monday at 2 p.m. 

 Vice-president Locy, before the Section of Zool- 

 ogy. Title: "The Story of Human Lineage." 



Tuesday at 2 p.m. 



Vice-president Van Vleck, before the Section 

 of Mathematics and Astronomy. Title: "The 

 Influence of Fourier 's Series upon the Development 

 of Mathematics. ' ' 



Vice-president Webster, before the Section of 

 Physics. Title: "The Methods of Physical Sci- 

 ence: to what do they Apply?" 



Vice-president Johnson, before the Section of 

 Botany. Title : ' ' Some Botanical Contributions to 

 the Solution of an important Biological Problem. ' ' 



Wednesday at 2 p.m. 

 Vice-president Cattell, before the Section of Edu- 

 cation. Title: "Science, Education and Democ- 

 racy. ' ' 



Thursday at 2 p.m. 



Vice-president Holmes, before the Section of 

 Mechanical Science and Engineering. Title: 

 "Safety and the Prevention of Waste in Mining 

 and Metallurgical Operations." 



Vice-president Todd, before the Section of Geol- 

 ogy and Geography. Title: "Pleistocene History 

 of the Missouri Eiver. ' ' 



at 4 p.m. 

 Vice-president Hammond, before the Section of 

 Social and Economic Science. Title: "The De- 

 velopment of Our Foreign Trade." 



Friday at 4:30 p. m. 

 Vice-president Macleod, before the Section of 

 Physiology and Experimental Medicine. Title: 

 ' ' The Physiological Instruction of Medical Stu- 

 dents. ' ' 



There will be two public lectures, compli- 

 mentary to the citizens of Atlanta and vicin- 

 ity, one on Tuesday evening by Dr. Charles 

 Warden Stiles, of the F. S. Public Health 

 Service, on " The Health of the Mother in the 

 South," and one on Wednesday evening by Pro- 

 fessor Charles E. Munroe, of the George Wash- 

 ington University, on " The Explosive Re- 

 sources of the Confederacy during the War 

 and Now: A Chapter in Chemical History." 



It is expected that there will be a number 

 of joint meetings and the usual smokers 

 and dinners. The Ladies' Eeception Com- 

 mittee will arrange functions for the women 

 members of the association and affiliated 

 societies and for the women accompanying 

 members. The hotel headquarters are the 

 Piedmont. A railroad rate of one fare and 

 three fifths for the round trip, on the certificate 

 plan, conditioned upon the presentation at the 

 meeting of not less than 200 certificates, has 

 been granted by the Trunk Line Association. 



The following societies have indicated their 

 intention to meet in Atlanta during Convoca- 

 tion Week in affiliation with the association : 



Astronomioal and Astrophysical Society of 

 America. — Will meet on dates to be announced, in- 

 cluding joint session with Section A. Secretary, 

 Professor Philip Fox, Dearborn Observatory, 

 Evanston, HI. 



Botanical Society of America. — Will meet on 



