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SCIENCE. 



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equipment. Professor Edwin G. Conklin; of the 

 committee on press and printing, Mr. George E. 

 Nitzsohe; of the committee on transportation, Mr. 

 Walter Wood; of the committee on finance, Mr. S. 

 F. Houston. 



Section A, Mathematics and Astronomy. — Vice- 

 president, Professor Alexander Ziwet, University 

 of Michigan; Secretary, Professor L. G. Weld, 

 University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. 



Section B, Physics. — Vice-president, Professor 

 Wm. F. Magie, Princeton University; Secretary, 

 Professor Dayton C. Miller, Case School of Ap- 

 plied Science, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Section C, Chemist?'}/. — Vice-president, Professor 

 Leonard P. Kinnicutt, Polytechnic Institute, Wor- 

 cester, Mass.; secretary. Professor Charles L. Par- 

 sons, New Hampshire College of Agriculture, Dur- 

 ham, N. H. 



Section D, Mechanical Science and Engineering. 

 — Vice-president, Professor David S. Jacobus, 

 Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N. J.; secretary. Pro- 

 fessor Wm. T. Magruder, Ohio State University, 

 Columbus, Ohio. 



Section E, Geology and Geography. — Vice-presi- 

 dent, Professor Eugene A. Smith, University of 

 Alabama; secretary. Dr. Edmund 0. Hovey, 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York, 

 N. Y. 



Section F, Zoology. — Vice-president, Dr. C. Hart 

 Merriam, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture; secretary. 

 Professor C. Judson Herrick, Denison University, 

 Granville, Ohio. 



Section G, Botany. — Vice-president, Professor 

 B. L. Robinson, Harvard University; Secretary, 

 Professor F. E. Lloyd, Teachers College, Columbia 

 University, New lork, N. Y. 



Section H, Anthropology. — Vice-president, Dr. 

 Walter Hough, U. S. National Museum; secretary, 

 George H. Pepper, American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



Section I, Social and Economic Science. — Vice- 

 president, Martin A. Knapp, U. S. Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission, Washington; Secretary, Dr. 

 J. F. Crowell, Bureau of Statistics, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Section K, Physiology and Experimental Medi- 

 cine. — Vice-president, Professor H. P. Bowditch, 

 Harvard University. 



The American Society of 'Naturalists. — Decem- 

 ber 27, 28. President, Professor E. L. Mark, Har- 

 vard University; secretary. Dr. Chas. B. Daven- 

 port, Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold 

 Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. 



The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of 

 America. — December 28, 29. President, Professor 



Simon Newcomb; secretary, Professor Geo. C. 

 Comstock, Washburn Observatory, Madison, Wis. 



The American Physical Society. — December 30. 

 President, Professor Arthur G. Webster; secre- 

 tary, Professor Ernest Merritt, Cornell Univer- 

 sity, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The American Chemical Society. — December 28- 

 31. President, Professor Arthur A. Noyes, Mas- 

 sachusetts Institute of Technology; Secretary, 

 Professor William A. Noyes, the Bureau of Stand- 

 ards, Washington, D. C. 



The Geological Society of America. — December 

 29-31. President, Professor J. C. Branner, Stan- 

 ford University; secretary, Professor Herman L. 

 Fairchild, Rochester, N. Y. 



The Botanical Society of America. — December 

 27-31. President, F. V. Coville; secretary, Dr. D. 

 T. MacDougal, N. Y. Botanical Garden, Bronx 

 Park, New York City. 



The Society for Plant Morphology and Physi- 

 ology.— Decemher 28, 29, 30. President, Dr. G. T. 

 Moore, Department of Agriculture, Washington; 

 secretary. Professor W. F. Ganong, Smith College, 

 Northampton, Mass. 



The Botanical Club of the Association. 



The Fern Chapter. 



Sullivant Moss Chapter. 



Wild Floicer Preservation Society of America. 



The Society for Horticultural Science. — Decem- 

 ber 27. President, Professor L. H. Bailey, Cornell 

 University; secretary, S. A. Beach, Geneva, N. Y. 



The Society for the Promotion of Agricultural 

 Science. — December 26. Secretary, Professor F. 

 M. Webster, University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 



The Association of Plant and Animal Breeders. 



The Association of Economic Entomologists. — 

 President, Professor A. L. Quaintance, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. ; secretary. Professor H. E. Summers, 

 Ames, Iowa. 



The Entomological Club of the Association. 



The American Society of Zoologists {Eastern 

 Branch) .—Decemher 27, 28. President, Professor 



E. A. Andrews, Johns Hopkins University; secre- 

 tary. Professor Oilman A. Drew, University of 

 Maine. 



The American Society of Vertebrate Paleontolo- 

 gists. — December 28-30. President, Professor H. 



F. Osborn, Columbia University; secretary. Dr. 

 0. P. Hay, American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City. 



The Society of American Bacteriologists. — Pres- 

 iaent, Professor F. G. Novy, University of Michi- 

 gan; secretary. Professor F. P. Gorham, Brown 

 University, Providence, R. I. 



The American Physiological Society. — December 



