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versity of Wisconsin; secretary, Professor F. N. 

 Cole, 501 West 116th Street, New York City. 

 Chicago, December 26, 27, secretary of Chicago 

 meeting, Professor H. E. Slaught, University of 

 Chicago, Chicago, 111. 



The American Anthropological Association. — 

 December 29-31. President, Professor Koland B. 

 Dixon, Harvard University; secretary. Professor 

 George Grant MacCurdy, Tale University, New 

 Haven, Conn. 



The American Folh-Lore Society. — December 31. 

 President, John A. Lomax, University of Texas; 

 secretary. Dr. Charles Peabody, 197 Brattle St., 

 Cambridge, Mass. 



PEINCETON 



The Geological Society of America. — December 

 30-January 1. President, Professor Eugene A. 

 Smith, University of Alabama; secretary. Dr. Ed- 

 mund Otis Hovey, American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York City. 



The Association of American Geographers. — 

 Probably meets at Princeton but official informa- 

 tion has not been received. 



The Paleontological Society. — December 31- 

 January 1. President, Dr. Charles D. Walcott, 

 Smithsonian Institution; secretary. Dr. E. S. Sass- 

 ier, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 



NBVf HAVEN 



The American Fsyclwlogical Association. — ^De- 

 cember 30-January 1. President, Professor How- 

 ard C. Warren, Princeton University; secretary, 

 W. Van Dyke Bingham, Dartmouth College, Han- 

 over, N. H. 



The American Philosophical Association. — De- 

 cember 29-31. President, Professor E. B. McGU- 

 vary, University of Wisconsin; secretary. Professor 

 E. G. Spaulding, Princeton, N. J. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



The American Economic Association. — December 

 27-30. President, Professor David Kinley, Uni- 

 versity of Illinois; secretary. Professor T. N. 

 Carver, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



The American Sociological Society. — December 

 27-30. President, Professor Albion W. Small, 

 University of Chicago; secretary, Scott E. W. 

 Bedford, University of Chicago, Chicago, HI. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



The American Association for Labor Legisla- 

 tion. — December 30-31. President, Professor W. 



W. Willoughby, Princeton University; secretary, 

 Dr. John B. Andrews, 131 East 23d St., New York 

 City. 



MONTREAL 



The Society of American Bacteriologists. — De- 

 cember 31-January 2. President, Professor C. E. 

 A. Winslow, College of the City of New York ; sec- 

 retary. Dr. A. Parker Hitchens, Glenolden, Pa. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 



THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



The thirteenth annual meeting of the Botanical 

 Society of Washington was held in the committee 

 room of the Bureau of Plant Industry on October 

 17, 1913, at 1:30 p.m., with seventeen members 

 present. The customary reports were presented 

 and approved and the following officers elected 

 for the ensuing year : President, C. L. Shear ; 

 Vice-president, A. S. Hitchcock; Recording Secre- 

 tary, C. E. Chambliss; Corresponding Secretary, 

 P. L. Eieker; Treamrer, H. H. Bartlett. Mr. F. 

 L. Lewton was nominated as Vice-president from 

 the society for the Washington Academy of Sci- 

 ences. 



The ninetieth regular meeting of the Botanical 

 Society of Washington was held in the assembly 

 hall of the Cosmos Club on Monday, October 6, 

 1913, at 8 P.M., with forty-two members and seven- 

 teen guests present, including the following distin- 

 guished European botanists: Frau Dr. Brockmann- 

 Jerosch, Zvirich; Dr. Edward Eiibel, Ziirieh; Pro- 

 fessor Carl Schroter, Ziirieh; Professor C. von 

 Tubeuf, Miinich. 



The program consisted of brief informal re- 

 marks, as follows: 



An address of welcome to the guests of the so- 

 ciety, by President Stockberger. 



' ' Citrus Plants of the World and their Impor- 

 tance and Use in Connection with Citrus Cultures 

 and Citrus Breeding, ' ' by Mr. Walter T. Swingle. 



"A Brief Summary of the Eesults of Twenty 

 Years ' Work with Mistletoe, ' ' by Professor C. von 

 Tubeuf. 



Professor Carl Schroter of Ziirieh translated 

 Profesor Tubeuf 's address into English. 



"Plant Introduction Work of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry," by Mr. David Fairchild. 



' ' Impressions Eeceived during the American 

 International Phytogeographie Excursions, ' ' by 

 Professor Carl Schroter. 



"Nodule Production and Nitrogen Fixation by 

 Plants other than Leguminosse, ' ' by Dr. Carl 

 Kellerman. 



