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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVllI. No. 4C(i. 



Langsdorf, Washington University, St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



For information relating to the presenta- 

 tion of papers, members should address the 

 secretaries of the respective sections. 

 Titles and abstracts of papers should be 

 sent promptly to the secretaries, or to the 

 permanent secretary. Blank forms upon 

 which abstracts may be filled out will be 

 forwarded. The post-office addresses of 

 the several secretaries are given in the 

 list of officers following this general an- 

 nouncement. 



Nominations to membership and letters 

 relating to the general business of the asso- 

 ciation should be sent to the permanent 

 secretary at the address given herewith. 

 It is strongly lu'ged that each member read- 

 ing this announcement should at least make 

 an effort to secure the nomination of some 

 desirable new member. 



Members paying their dues before De- 

 cember 20 will receive their tickets by mail 

 at once, and will thus save time in register- 

 ing on their arrival at St. Louis, provided 

 they bring their tickets with them. 



The register for the St. Louis meeting 

 will be open at 10 a.m., on Saturday, De- 

 cember 26, at the general office of the local 

 and permanent secretaries in the Central 

 High School Building. 



L. 0. Howard, 

 Permanent Secretary, Cosmos Club, 



Washington, D. C. 



Officers for the meeting are as follows : 



President : Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner of 

 Labor, Washington, D. C. 



Vice-Presidents: (A) Mathematics and Astron- 

 omy — Otto H. Tittmann, Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey, Washington, D. C. (B) Phrjsics—'E. H. Hall, 

 Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (C) 

 Chemistry — W. D. Bancroft, Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. (D) Mechanical Science and Engi- 

 neering — C. M. Woodward, Washington Univer- 

 sity, St. Louis, Mo. (E) Geology and Geography 

 — I. C. Eussell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 

 Mich. (F) Zoology — Edward L. Mark, Harvard 



University, Cambridge, Mass. (G) Botany — T. 

 H. Mat'Bride, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. 

 (H) Anthropology — M. H. Saville, American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, New York, X. Y. (I) 

 Social and Economic Science — Simeon E. Baldwin, 

 New Haven, Conn. (K) Physiology and Experi- 

 mental Medicine — H. P. Bowditch, garvard Uni- 

 versity, Cambridge, Mass. 



Permanent Secretary: L. 0. Howard, Cosmos 

 Club, Washington, D. C. 



General Secretary: Ch. Wardell Stiles, Public 

 Health and Marine Hospital Service, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Secretary of the Council: Charles S. Howe, Case 

 School, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Secretaries of the Sections: (A) Mathematics 

 and Astronomy — L. G. Weld, University of Iowa, 

 Iowa City, Iowa. (B) Physics — Dayton C. 

 Miller, Case School, Cleveland, Ohio. (C) Chem- 

 istry — C. L. Parsons, New Hampshire College, 

 Durham, N. H. (D) Mechanical Science and 

 Engineering — Wm. T. Magruder, Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, Columbus, Ohio. (E) Geology and Geog- 

 raphy — G. B. Shattuek, Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, Baltimore, Md. (F) Zoology — C. Judson 

 Herriek, Denison University, Granville, Ohio. 

 (G) Botany— ¥. E. Lloyd, Teachers' College, Co- 

 lumbia University, New York, N. Y'. (H) An- 

 thropology — Geo. H. Pepper, American Museum 

 of Natural History, New York, N. Y. (I) Social 

 and Economic Science — J. F. Crowell, Bureau of 

 Statistics, Washington, D. C. (K) Physiology 

 and Experimental Medicine — Frederic S. Lee, 

 Columbia University, New York, N. Y. 



Treasurer: K. S. Woodward, Columbia Univer- 

 sity, New York, N. Y. 



The local committee includes: 



Honorary President: David R. Francis. 



President: William Trelease. 



Vice-Presidents: First Vice-President, C. M. 

 Woodward. Second Vice-President, F. Louis 

 Soldan. Third Vice-President, P. H. Jesse. 



Treasurer: William H. Thomson. 



Secretary : Alexander S. Langsdorf. 



Executive Committee : William Trelease, Chair- 

 man; Geo. H. Morgan, Secretarj'; William H. 

 Thomson, Treasurer; W. S. Chaplin, A. S. Langs- 

 dorf, F. E. Nipher, John Sehroers, Walter B. 

 Stevens, William Taussig, H. C. Townsend. 



PRELIMINAKT PROGRAM. 



At the first general session, to be held at 

 10 A.M., the meeting will be called to order 



