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C. M. Woodward (19 Feb., '04, No. 477, p. 



312). 



Prefers special meeting at convocation 

 week and the general association meeting 

 (' scientific, technical and social ') to be held 

 in summer, either week before or after Na- 

 tional Educational Association. Persons 

 claiming membership in affiliated societies 

 ought to pay something into association trea- 

 sury or else their society pay for them. 



Eknest Pox Nichols (26 Feb., '04, No. 478, 



p. 340). 



Proposes two meetings: popular one in 

 summer and a convocation week in winter 

 which would thus serve as ' a clearing house ' 

 for the affiliated societies and the sections. 

 Believes financial matters will interfere with 

 two meetings. 



E. H. S. Bailey (26 Feb., '04, No. 478, p. 341). 

 Convocation week meetings have proven 

 satisfactory. * * * General meeting in late 

 summer breaks in too much on vacations or 

 seriously interrupts laboratory investigations 

 or scientific excursions. Can be no valid ob- 

 jection to having semi-annual meetings of sec- 

 tions or of affiliated societies held during the 

 summer months, but this should not interfere 

 with attendance at the larger and more im- 

 portant annual meeting held in the winter 

 at some central and convenient point. 



T. C. Hopkins (26 Feb., '04, No. 478, pp. 341- 



342). 



Proposes meetings of association sections in 

 midsummer (not all sections at the same 

 place) at such places as can be used to bene- 

 fit that particular section by excursions, study 

 or research. Sections could go to smaller 

 places and thus enlarge scope of society and 

 make many more adherents. Then have also 

 the regular winter meetings. 



Thomas H. MacBride (26 Feb., '04, No. 478, 



pp. 342-343). 



Suggests for the botanists to maintain the 

 section for botany in the association at all 

 hazards and have but a single Botanical So- 

 ciety of America with at least two meetings 

 a year, and always in connection with the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science. Let program of Section G con- 



sist of two parts ; one of popular character 

 held in forenoon of each day; the other to be 

 purely professional. 



Chas. S. Howe (4 Mch., '04, No. 479, p. 383). 

 Suggests appointment of representatives 

 from each national society to meet at some 

 central point this summer and thoroughly dis- 

 cuss the question in all of its bearings. Be- 

 lieves that Science might take the initiative 

 and request societies to send representatives to 

 such a meeting. 



J. C. Branner (4 Mch., '04, No. 479, pp. 383- 



384). 



States that ' those of us who live on the 

 Pacific slope have some objections peculiarly 

 our own.' Loss of time from Christmas vaca- 

 tion by rushing across continent and again at 

 close of meetings recrossing. Trip is one of 

 several thousand miles and requires from six 

 to ten days. 3. Unable to obtain sufficient 

 reduction in railway rates. 4. Loss of a few 

 days that would be spent quietly at home. 

 Summer time the meeting will only occupy 

 part of the vacation period. However we 

 fully realize that the question should be set- 

 tled by the majority. 



Ch. "Waedell Stiles (4 Mch., '04, No. 479, pp. 



384^385). 



Let the present association be taken as a 

 basis for national organization. Let present 

 council be supplanted by a house of delegates, 

 composed of representatives from each state 

 society, number to be in proportion to the state 

 membership ; let all business afl^airs, questions 

 of policy, etc., be transacted by this body. 

 Let national association hold meetings convo- 

 cation week and be divided into as many sec- 

 tions as necessary or desirable for purpose of 

 presenting papers. But let it also be divided 

 into state associations for purposes of repre- 

 sentation. 



C. JuDsoN Herriok (4 Mch., '04, No. 479, pp. 



385-386). 



Believes that final adjustment will be " sum- 

 mer meeting of association with field excur- 

 sions prominent, some of sections perhaps 

 meeting in different places, and a convocation ■ 

 meeting in the winter devoted mainly to read- 

 ing of technical papers, with a due proportion 



