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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVUl. No. 409. 



iiral History Museums,' by F. Jeffrey Bell. 

 There are an interesting report of the meeting 

 of the library association and many notes from 

 various museums. 



SOCIETIES ASD ACADEMIES. 



THE CON^■OC'ATION WEEK MEETINGS OF SCIENTIFIC 



SOCIETIES. 



The American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, the American Society 

 of Naturalists and the following affiliated so- 

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

 week beginning 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. 0. Howard, Cosmos 

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

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

 Washington, D. C; Secretary of the Council, 

 President Chas. S. Howe, Case School of Applied 

 Science, Cleveland, Oliio. Local Executive Com- 

 mittee, President, Professor William Trelease; 

 Secretary, Alexander S. Langsdorf. 



Section A — Mathematics and Astronomy. Vice- 

 president, 0. H. Tittmann; Secretary, 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, Oliio. 



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; Secretarj', 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 G — Botany. 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 Eeonomic Science. Vice- 

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



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

 ington, D. C. 



Section K — Physiology and Experimental Medi- 

 cine. President, Professor H. P. Bowditch ; 

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

 sity, New York. There will be no meeting of 

 Section K at the St. Louis meeting. 



Tlie American Society of Xaturalisis. December 

 29 and 30. President, Professor William Tre- 

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

 Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 7'7(e Central 

 Branch of the society meets at the same time and 

 place. President, Professor John M. Coulter ; 

 Secretary, Professor W. J. Moenkhaus, Indiana 

 University, Bloomingtou, Ind. 



The Astron-omical and Astrophysical Society 

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

 fessor Simon Newcomb; Secretary, Professor Geo. 

 C. Comstoek, Washburn Observatory, Madison, 

 Wis. 



American Physical Society. During convoca- 

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

 tary, Professor Ernest Merritt, Cornell L'niversity, 

 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- 

 dillcian Section. San Francisco. January 1, 2, 

 1904. 



T7ie American Mathematical Society — Chicago 

 Section. Secretary, Professor Thomas F. Ilolgate, 

 Northwestern University, Evanston, 111. San 

 Francisco Section. Berkeley, Cal. December 19. 

 Secretary, Professor G. A. Miller, Stanford L'ni- 

 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. 



Tlie Central Botanists' Association. President. 

 Conway MacMillan; Secretary, C. F. Millspangh, 

 Field Cohnnbian Museum, Chicago, 111. 



The Botanical Club of the Association. Prob- 

 abl.v, at convenient times. 



I'he Society for Horticultural 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. Hou.se, 

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



The Society for the Promotion of Agricultural 



