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SCIENCE. 



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Sckiicc. Deieiiiboi- 28, 2!t 30, 31, UI03, Jamiiuy 



I, 1904. I'lesiiloiit, Dr. William Fieur; Sei-ie- 

 tary, Professor K. M. Webster, University of 

 Illinois, L'rbana. 111. 



American Society of Zoologists, Centrul Branch. 

 Ueccniber 29, 30, 31. President, Professor Jaeol) 

 K. Reigliard; Secretary, Professor Frank Smith. 

 L'niversity of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



The Association of tJconomic Entomologists. De 

 eember 29, 30. President, Professor ^lark V. 

 Slingerland ; Secretary, Professor A. F. Burgess, 

 Oliio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 



The Entomological Club of the .Association. 

 At convenient times. President, E. A. Schwarz; 

 Secretary, C. L. Marlatt, Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. C. 



The American Microscopical Society. December 

 28, probably. President, T. J. Burrill ; Secretary, 



II. 15. Ward, Lincoln. Nebraska. 



.l.ssoci(i/ion of Plant and Animal Breeders. 

 First general meeting. December 29, 30. Chair- 

 man of Committee, W. M. Hayes, University 

 Farm, St. Anthony Park, Minn. 



The American Anthropological Association. 

 December 28, 1903, January I, 2, 1904. Presi- 

 dent, Dr. W" J McGce; Secretaiy, George H. Pep- 

 per, American Museum of Natural History, Cen- 

 tral Park, New York City. 



The American Psychological Association. De- 

 cember 29, 30. President, Dr. W. L. Biyan ; Secre- 

 tary, Professor Livingston Farrand, Columbia 

 University, New York City. 



The Sigma Xi Uonorary Scientific Society. 

 During convocation week. President S. W. 

 Williston ; Secretary, Professor E. S. Crawley. 

 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 



The Xational Educational .issociation, Depart- 

 ment Presidents. About .Januaiy 1, 1903. Presi- 

 dent, John W. Cook: Secretary. Irwin Shepard, 

 Winona, Minn. 



There will meet at Phila<lelj)hia: 



The .Imericon Society of Zoologists, Eastern 

 Branch. December 29, 30, 31. President, Dr. G. 

 H. Parker; Secretary, Dr. (J. A. Drew. University 

 of Maine, Orono, Jle. 



The Association of American Anatomists. De- 

 cember 29, 30, 31. President, Professor G. S. 

 Huntington; Secretary. Professor G. Carl Huber, 

 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 



The Society for Plant Morphology and Physiol- 

 ogy. December 29, 30, 31. President. Professor 

 Roland Thaxter; Secretary; Professor W. F. 

 Ganong, Smith College, Northampton. Mass. 



The Society of .American Bacteriologists. De- 

 cember 20. 30. Presidenl, Professor Theobald 



Smith; Secretary, Professor E. O. Jordan. Univer- 

 .siiy of Chicago, Chicago, 111. 



The .imcrican Physiological Society. December 

 29, 30. President, Professor R. U. Chittenden; 

 Secretary, Professor F. S. I^ee. Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York City. 



There will meet at Princeton: 



The .American Philosophical Association. De- 

 cember 29 and 30. President, Professor Josiah 

 Koyce; Secretary, Professor H. N. Gardiner. Smith 

 College, Northampton, Mas.s. 



There will meet in New York: 



The .imcrican Mathematical Society. Columbia 

 University. December 28 and 29. President, 

 Professor Thomas S. Fiske; Secretary, Professor 

 K. N. Cole, Columbia University, New York City. 



THE SOCIETY OF THE \'ERTEBUATE P.VLEOSTOLO- 

 GISTS OF AMERICA. 



At a meeting held at Washington, D. C, 

 December 31, 1902, which was attended by 

 the persons whose names are printed in italics 

 in the list given below, it was decided to or- 

 ganize a society of the vertebrate paleontolo- 

 gists of America. Of this society Professor 

 S. W. Williston, of the University of Chicago, 

 was chosen president and O. P. Hay, of the 

 American Museum of Natural Historj', sec- 

 retary. It was further decided that the meet- 

 ings of this society should be held at the same 

 time and place as those of the American So- 

 ciety of Zoologists. The following active 

 workers in vertebrate paleontology were pro- 

 posed as original members: G. I. Adams, E. 

 H. Barbour, B. A. Bensley, B. Brown, E. C. 

 Case, Bash ford Dean, E. Douglass, C. R. 

 Eastman, G. F. Eaton, J. Eyerman, M. S. 

 Farr, S. Garman, J. W. Gidley, Theodore 

 Gill, C. W. Gilmore, W. Granger, J. B. 

 Hatcher. 0. P. Hay, L. if. Lambe, J. Lin.lahl, 

 F. B. Loomis, F. A. Lucas, W. D. Matthew, 

 J. C. Merriam. H. F. Osborn, W. Patten, 

 O. A. Peterson, E. S. Riggs, W. B. Scott, 

 A. Stewart, J. F. Wbiteaves, G. R. Wicland, 

 S. IV. WiUislon, J. L. Wort.man. 



Notice is hereby given that a second meet- 

 ing of the society will be held, beginning 

 December 29, 1903, in Philadelphia, at the 

 Fniversity of Pennsylvania, at which meet- 

 ing the organization of the society will be 

 completed and papers will be read by several 



