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while a prominent officer at the Denver 

 meeting thought it should be 10,000. How- 

 ever this may be, the work of the past year 

 has demonstrated clearly that an effort to 

 increase membership, when wisely directed 

 and persistently followed up, is sure to be 

 successful. 



The financial side of the Association is 

 also becoming impressive. The report of 

 the permanent secretary for 1900, which 

 does not include the still larger income 

 accruing thus far during 1901, shows re- 

 ceipts amounting to $12,321.60. Of this 

 amount the sum of $1,300 was paid over to 

 the treasurer for endowment, and a balance 

 of $4,741.60 carried over to the next year. 

 To meet the numerous expenses of so large 

 an organization, and also to set aside more 

 than $1,000 towards the permanent endow- 

 ment for grants is an achievement for which 

 the administration of the Association is to be 

 congratulated. The same outcome will ap- 

 pear in the next report, for the Council has 

 already set aside $1,000 from the receipts of 

 1901 for the permanent fund. 



In regard to this permanent fund the 

 treasurer's report showed that it now 

 amounts to over $11,000, having doubled 

 in seven years. This is gratifying because 

 the income is used for grants to special 

 committees to aid in the prosecution of re- 

 search. The reports of these committees 

 form an interesting part of the proceedings. 

 With an organized effort for an increase in 

 the number of members, and with the fre- 

 quent communication among members 

 secured by the relationship with this 

 Journal, there seems to be no reason why 

 the Association should not include in its 



membership all those who are engaged or 

 interested in scientific work in this country 

 and thus represent completely the organi- 

 zation of science in America. 



The steady progress toward this end is 

 demonstrated by the signal success of the 

 Denver meeting. Heretofore the Associ- 

 ation has been an organization expressing 

 chiefly the scientific activities of the eastern 

 states, no previous meeting having been 

 held west of the immediate banks of the 

 Mississippi river. Henceforth the Associa- 

 tion is in fact as well as in name an organi- 

 zation expressing the scientific activities of 

 the entire continent. This first Denver 

 meeting, therefore, must be regarded as a 

 noteworthy event in the history of Ameri- 

 can science. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTIETH ANNUAL 

 MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSO- 

 CIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE. 



The first general session of the Denver 

 meeting was called to order in the audi- 

 torium of the High School Building at 10 

 o'clock in the morning of August 26 by the 

 retiring president of the Association, Pro- 

 fessor E. S. Woodward, of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, who introduced the president-elect, 

 Professor Charles S. Minot, of Harvard 

 University. President Minot introduced 

 the Hon. J. B. Grant, president of the local 

 committee, who, after some remarks wel- 

 coming the Association to Denver and to 

 Colorado and the reading of a letter from 

 the Governor of the State, introduced the 

 Hon. R. E. Wright, Jr., Mayor of Den- 

 ver ; Mr. Charles F. Wilson, President of 

 the Chamber of Commerce ; General Irving 

 Hale and Professor Aaron Gove, Super- 

 intendent of Schools, all of whom made 

 addresses of welcome. To these addresses 



