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which provoked generous and general dis- 

 cussion of the questions involved. 



Important progress was made toward 

 the establishment of a permanent policy 

 in the association by several amendments 

 to the constitution and practices which 

 were put into operation. The members 

 of the sectional conunittees were elected 

 for terms varying in length from one to 

 five years, thus insuring the continuance 

 of at least four members familiar with 

 committee work from one year to the next ; 

 the secretaries of the sections were elected 

 for terms of five years, and the council 

 elected nine fellows at large for varying 

 terms. The continuity this secures in the 

 governing body of the association will add 

 greatly to its efficiency in the advancement 

 of science. The members at large, with 

 their terms of service, are as follows: 



J. MoK. Cattell, U. S. Grant, William Kent, 

 term ending 1904. 



J. M. Coulter, A. A. Noyes, H. P. Osborn, term 

 ending 1905. 



Franz Boas, E. L. Nichols, W. F. Wilcox, term 

 ending 1906. 



The following resolutions of importance 

 to the policy of the association were dis- 

 cussed and adopted: 



Resolved, That any section is hereby authorized 

 to arrange through its sectional committee for 

 an independent summer meeting in any year when 

 the association fails to hold a summer meeting; 

 provided, that the time and place of meeting and 

 the general program be approved by the president 

 and permanent secretary of the association and 

 that a full report of its meeting be sent to the 

 permanent secretary. The expenses of any such 

 meeting to an amount not exceeding fifty dollars 

 will be borne by the association. 



Resolved, That Section E is hereby authorized 

 to suspend its scientific program of the reading of 

 papers at any winter meeting when the Geological 

 Society of America meets in conjunction with the 

 association; provided that the Geological Society 

 includes in its program the papers of worthy char- 

 acter offered by members of the section who are 

 not fellows of the society. 



Resolved, That each section is recommended to 

 hold during each general meeting at least one 



afternoon session when a program of general in- 

 terest shall be presented. 



It was recommended that the elections 

 to fellowship be announced to the section 

 from which the member elected had been 

 recommended. 



The council voted unanimously to in- 

 crease the salary of the permanent secre- 

 tary from $1,250 to $1,500 on account of 

 the greatly increased membership of the 

 association and attendance at the meetings, 

 which have multiplied the duties devolving 

 upon the office. 



The amendment to the constitution 

 proposed at the Pittsburgh meeting and 

 printed in full in Science, Volume XVI., 

 page 42, was adopted, and further amend- 

 ments were presented altering the word 

 'assessment' to 'dues' in three places. 



Resolutions, demonstrating the impor- 

 tant part that will hereafter be taken in 

 the association by the newly established 

 section of physiology and experimental 

 medicine, were passed as follows: 



Resolved, That the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science hereby records its 

 sense of the great loss sustained by science in the 

 death of Major Walter Reed, surgeon in the United 

 States Army, and its appreciation of the far- 

 reaching and invaluable services which he has 

 rendered to humanity. By solving the problem of 

 the mode of spread of yellow fever, Major Reed 

 not only made a great contribution to science, but 

 at the same time conferred inestimable benefits 

 upon his country and upon mankind. To have dis- 

 covered and demonstrated the methods, which have 

 already been successfully tested in Cuba, of eradi- 

 cating a wide-spread and terrible pestilence, is a 

 benefaction of imperishable renown, of incalculable 

 value in the saving of human lives, of vast im- 

 portance to commercial interests, and deserving 

 of the highest rewards in the power of his country- 

 men to bestow. This association earnestly urges 

 upon the attention of Congress the duty of 

 making full provision for the support of his 

 family. 



Resolved, That the President designate a com- 

 mittee of nine members of this Association, with 

 power to increase its number, which shall be au- 

 thorized and requested to devise and carry out a 



