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SCIENCE. 



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Commerce Commission, Washington; Secretary, 

 Dr. J. F. Crowell, Bureau of Statistics, Washing- 

 ton, 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 Stan- 

 dards, 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. MacDougall, N. Y. Botanical Garden, Bronx 

 Park, New York City. 



The Society for Plant Morphology and Physi- 

 ology.— December 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. 



Bullivant Moss Chapter. 



Wild Flower Preservation Society of America. 



The Society for Horticultural Science. — Presi- 

 dent, 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. Quaintanee, Washing- 

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

 Ames, Iowa. 



The Entomological Club of the Association. 



The American Society of Zoologists {Eastern 

 B)-(jjic/f).— December 27, 28. President, Professor 



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

 tary. Professor Gilman 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- 

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

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

 University, Providence, E. I. 



The American Physiological Society. — December 

 27, 28. President, Professor R. H. Chittenden, 

 Yale University; secretary. Professor "Lafayette 

 B. Mendel, New Haven, Conn. 



The Association of American Anatomists. — De- 

 cember 26, 27, 28. President, Professor Charles 

 S. Minot, Harvard Medical School; secretary, 

 Professor G. Carl Huber, 333 East Ann St., Ann 

 Arbor, Mich. 



American Folk-Lore Society. 



The American Anthropological Association. — 

 December 27-Jan. 2. President, Dr. W J McGee, 

 Washington; secretary. Dr. Geo. Grant MacCurdy, 

 Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 



The American Psychological Association. — De- 

 cember 28, 29. President, Professor William 

 James, Harvard University; secretary. Professor 

 Livingston Farrand, Columbia University, New 

 York City. 



The American Philosophical Association. — De- 

 cember 28, 29, 30. President, Professor George T. 

 Ladd, Yale University; secretary, Professor H. N. 

 Gardiner, Northampton, Mass. 



The Sigma Xi Honorary Scientific Society. — 

 President, Professor S. W. Williston, University 

 of Chicago; secretary. Professor Edwin S. Craw- 

 ley, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 



THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



The fourteentli annual meeting of the 

 academy was held in Cleveland at Adelbert 

 College on November 25-26. The program 

 was somewhat shorter than for preceding 

 meetings but was unusually interesting, espe- 

 cially the longer papers of the first half day's 

 session. The address of the retiring presi- 

 dent, E. L. Moseley, was one of the best ever 

 presented to the academy. In it he traced the 

 formation of Sandusky Bay and gave detailed 

 evidences of the growth of Cedar Point. The 

 paper by Professor George Bruce Halsted on 



