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of Naturalists and the following affiliated so- 

 cieties will meet at St. Louis, Mo., during the 

 week beginning on December 28. 



The American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science. The week beginning on December 28, 

 1903. President, The Hon. Carroll D. Wright; 

 Permanent Secretary, Dr. L. O. Howard, Cosmos 

 Club, Washington, D. C; General Secretary, Dr. 

 Chas. W. Stiles, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C; Secretarry of the Council, 

 President Chas. S. Howe, Case School of Applied 

 Science, Cleveland, Ohio. Local Executive Com- 

 mittee, President, Professor William Trelease; 

 Secretary, Alexander S. Langsdorf. 



Section A — Mathematics and Astronomy. Vice- 

 president, 0. H. Tittmann; Secretaiy, Professor 

 L. G. Weld, University of Iowa, Iowa City, la. 



Section B — Physics. Vice-president, Professor 

 Edwin H. Hall ; Secretary, Professor D. C. Miller, 

 Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Section C — Chemistry. Vice-president, Pro- 

 fessor W. D. Bancroft; Secretary, Professor A. 

 H. Gill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 Boston, Mass. 



Section D — Mechanical Science and Engineering. 

 Vice-president, Professor C. M. Woodward; Secre- 

 tary, Professor Wm. T. Magruder, Ohio State 

 University. 



Section E — Geology and Geography. Vice- 

 president, Professor I. C. Russell; Secretary, Dr. 

 G. B. Shattuck, The Johns Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore, Md. 



Section F — -Zoology. Vice-president, Professor 

 E. L. Mark; Secretary, Professor C. Judson Her- 

 rick, Denison University, Granville, Ohio. 



Section Cf — Botatiy. Vice-president, Professor 

 T. H. MacBride; Secretary, Professor F. E. Lloyd, 

 Teachers College, Columbia University, New York 

 City. 



Section H — Anthropology. Vice-president, Pro- 

 fessor M. H. Saville; Secretary, Dr. R. B. Dixon, 

 Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 



Section I — Social and Economic Science. Vice- 

 president, Judge S. E. Baldwin; Secretary, J. E. 

 Crowell, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Section K — Physiology and Experimental Medi- 

 cine. President, Professor H. P. Bowditch; 

 Secretary, Professor P. S. Lee, Columbia Univer- 

 sity, New York. There will be no meeting of 

 Section K at the St. Louis meeting. 



The American Society of Naturalists. December 

 29 and 30. President, Professor William Tre- 

 lease; Secretary, Dr. Ross G. Harrison, The Johns 

 Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. The Central 



Branch of the society meets at the same time and 

 place. President, Professor John M. Coulter; 

 Secretary, Professor W. J. Moenkhaus, Indiana 

 University, Bloomington, Ind. 



The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society 

 of America. December 29, 30. President, Pro- 

 fessor Simon Newcomb; Secretary, Professor Geo. 

 C. Comstock, Washburn Observatory, Madison, 

 Wis. 



American Physical Society. During convoca- 

 tion week. President, Arthur G. Webster; Secre- 

 tary, Professor Ernest Merritt, Cornell University, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



The American Chemical Society. December 28, 



29. President, Professor John H. Long; Secre- 

 tary, Professor W. A. Noyes, The Johns Hopkins 

 University, Baltimore, Md. 



The Geological Society of America. December 



30. 31, 1903, January 1, 1904. President, Dr. S. 

 F. Emmons; Secretary, Professor H. L. Fairchild, 

 University of Rochester, Rochester, N. Y. Cor- 

 dilleran Section. San Francisco. January 1, 2, 

 1904. 



The American Mathematical Society — Chicago 

 Section. Secretary, Professor Thomas F. Holgate, 

 Northwestern University, Evanston, 111. Sam, 

 Francisco Section. Berkeley, Cal. December 19. 

 Secretary, Professor G. A. Miller, Stanford Uni- 

 versity, Cal. 



Botanical Society of America. December 30, 



31. President, B. T. Galloway; Secretary D. T. 

 MacDougall, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx 

 Park, N. Y. 



The Central Botanists' Association. President, 

 Conway MacMillan; Secretary, C. F. Millspaugh, 

 Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, 111. 



The Botanical Cluh of the Association. Prob- 

 ably, at convenient times. 



The Society for Borticultural Science. De- 

 cember 28, 29. President, Professor L. H. Bailey; 

 Secretary, S. A. Beach, Geneva, N. Y. 



The Fern Chapter. Time to be announced. 

 President, B. D. Gilbert; Secretary, H. D. House, 

 Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, New York, N. Y. 



The Society for the Promotion of Agricultural 

 Science. December 28, 29, 30, 31, 1903, January 

 1, 1904. President, Dr. William Frear; Seei-e- 

 tary. Professor F. M. Webster, University of 

 Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



American Society of Zoologists, Central Branch. 

 December 29, 30, 31. President, Professor Jacob 

 E. Reighard; Secretary, Professor Frank Smith, 

 University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



The Association of Economic Entomologists. De- 

 cember 29, 30. President, Professor Mark V. 



