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Secretary, Daniel T. MacDougal, Botanical 

 Garden, Bronx Park, N. Y. 



llie Central Botanists' Association wiU 

 meet in affiliation with Section G. Presi- 

 dent, Conway MacMillan; Secretary, C. F. 

 Millspaiigh, Field Columbian Museum, 

 Chicago, 111. 



The Entomological Club of the Associa- 

 tion will meet at convenient times. Presi- 

 dent, E. A. SchAvarz; Secretary, C. L. Mar- 

 latt, Department of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



The Fern Chapter will meet at times to 

 be announced. President, B. D. Gilbert; 

 Secretary, H. D. House, Botanical Garden, 

 Bronx Park, New York, N. Y. 



The Geological Society of America will 

 meet on Wednesday at its hotel head- 

 quarters, at the Southern. Subsequent 

 sessions may be held in room 210 of the 

 high school. President, S. F. Emmons; 

 Secretary, H. L. Fairchild, Rochester, N. Y. 



The Sigma Xi Honorary Scientific So- 

 ciety will meet at a time to be announced 

 later. The annual banquet, to be followed 

 by an address by Dr. David Starr Jordan, 

 will be given at the Mercantile Club, 

 Seventh and Locust Streets, on Thursday 

 evening at seven o'clock. Members are re- 

 quested to register and procure tickets for 

 the banquet, at the desk of the local secre- 

 tary, as early as possible in the week. Presi- 

 dent, S. AY. Williston; Secretary, E. S. 

 Crawley, University of Pennsylvania, Phil- 

 adelphia, Pa. 



The Society for Horticultural Science 

 will hold its first regular meeting on Mon- 

 day and Tuesday. President, L. H. 

 Bailey; Secretary, S. A. Beach, Experi- 

 ment Station, Geneva, N. Y. 



The Society for the Promotion of Agri- 

 cultural Science will hold its quarti -centen- 

 nial meeting on Monday. President, Wil- 

 liam Frear; Secretary, F. M. Webster; 

 Urbana, 111. 



All members of affiliated societies who 

 are not members of the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science are 

 nevertheless requested to register at the 

 desk of the local secretary, so that an ap- 

 proximate record may be made of the total 

 number of scientific men in attendance at 

 the convocation week meetings. Members 

 of the American Society of Naturalists and 

 its affiliated societies, and of the Sigma 

 Xi Honorary Scientific Society are also 

 requested to procure tickets for the annual 

 dinners of these societies from the local 

 secretary as soon as possible after arrival, 

 so that arrangements for the dinners may 

 be perfected. 



TBE TYPICAL COLLEGE COURSES DEALING 

 WITH THE PROFESSIONAL AND THEO- 

 RETICAL PHASES OP ELECTRICAL 

 ENGINEERING." 

 At the Chicago meeting of the American 

 Institute of Electrical Engineers held 

 eleven years ago, I presented a paper re- 

 lating to the subject now under discussion. 

 The proposed subject then apparently 

 created some consternation amongst the 

 members of the committee on papers, who 

 seemed to fear that it was not of sufficient 

 interest to the society. The old prejudice 

 still held against ' college men ' in the minds 

 of so-called ' practical men ' who had grown 

 influential in engineering practice without 

 having had experience of college life and 

 training. Happily the foundation for this 

 prejudice has ere this been destroyed 

 through the influence of the industrial re- 

 sults achieved by college men. The old 

 prejudice, so far as it now exists, has more 

 particularly drifted into the way of criti- 

 cism of the engineering schools rather than 

 their graduates, and the character of the 

 schools and the training they afford are 

 * Paper read at the joint session of the Ameri- 

 can Institute of Electrical Engineers and the So- 

 ciety for the Promotion of Engineering Education, 

 held at Niagara Falls on July 3, 1903. 



