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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIV. No. 349. 



Minneapolis ; Wm. McPherson, Columbus ; C. W. 

 Comstock, Golden ; H. B. Ward, Lincoln ; Ernst 

 Bessey, Washington ; G. G. MacCurdy, New Haven ; 

 K. A. Pearson, Washington ; E. S. Woodward, New 

 York. 



From the Association at Large — A fellow from each 

 section : G. B. Halsted, Austin ; E. L. Nichols, 

 Ithaca ; C. S. Palmer, Boulder ; C. A. Waldo, Lafay- 

 ette ; T. C. Chamberlin, Chicago ; F. M. Webster, 

 Wooster ; D. H. Campbell, Stanford ; L. M. Under- 

 wood, New York ; W J MoGee, Washington ; E. 

 T. Peters, Washington ; J. McK. Cattell, New York. 



From the Affiliated Societies — American Chemical 

 Society : F. W. Clarke, A. C. Hale. Geological 

 Society of America : N. H. Winch ell, H. L. Fair- 

 child. Botanical Society of America: C. E. Bessey, 

 B. D. Halsted. Society for the Promotion of Agri- 

 cultural Science : W. J. Beal, Agricultural College. 



The address of the retiring president 

 was published in the last issue of this jour- 

 nal and the addresses of the vice-presidents 

 and abstracts of the papers read before the 

 sections are in course of publication. The 

 more important business transacted by the 

 Association was as follows : 



An amendment to Article 18 of the consti- 

 tion, submitted at the New York meeting 

 in 1900, was reported at general session 

 from the council for favorable action and 

 adopted. The amendment is as follows : 



In Art. 18, after the words ' The Treasurer of the 

 current meeting,' omit 'with the addition,' and 

 after the words ' by ballot on the first day of its 

 meeting ' insert ' of one fellow elected by each 

 affiliated society and one additional fellow from each 

 affiliated society having more than twenty-five mem- 

 bers who are fellows of the Association.' 



The following amendment to Article 20 

 of the Constitution was also adopted : 



Add to the end of Art. 20 the words, ' But if 

 suitable preliminary arrangements cannot be made, 

 the council may afterward change the time and 

 place appointed by the general committee, if such 

 change is believed advisable by two-thirds of the 

 members present.' 



The following amendments to the consti- 

 tution were read before the council and at 

 the general session and will be acted on at 

 the next meeting : 



In Article 9, after the words ' with the exception of 

 the Permanent Secretory' omit 'and,' and after the 

 words ' the Treasurer ' insert ' and the Secretaries of 

 the Sections ; and after the words ' The term of office 

 of the Permanent Secretary' omit ' and, ' and after 

 the words ' the Treasurer ' insert ' and of the Secre- 

 taries of the Sections.' 



In Article 18, after the words ' who are fellows of 

 the Association,' insert 'and of nine fellows elected 

 by the Council, three being annually elected for a 

 term of three years.' 



In Article 23, after the words ' of a Section there 

 shall be ' omit ' three members or fellows ' and insert 

 ' a member or fellow,' and after the words 'Vice- 

 President and Secretary of the preceding meeting ' 

 insert ' and the members or fellows elected by ballot 

 at the four preceding meetings.' 



Eeports of standing and special commit- 

 tees were presented and their recommenda- 

 tions adopted as follows : 



COMMITTEE ON THE POLICY OF THE ASSOCIA- 

 TION. 



The Committee on the Policy of the Association 

 presents the following recommendations to the coun- 

 cil in regard to certain matters which have been re- 

 ferred to it for consideration : 



1. The Committee recommends that owing to the 

 great increase of engineers in the membership of the 

 Association, it would be inexpedient to consider the 

 question of the discontinuance of Section D. 



2. The Committee recommends that the proceedings 

 of the annual meetings, including the addresses of 

 the Vice-Presidents, the reports of committees and 

 officers, and abstracts of all papers, be published im- 

 mediately in Science, and further that the addresses 

 of the Vice-Presidents, titles of all papers and reports 

 of officers and committees, the constitution and lists 

 of officers, members and fellows, be published by the 

 Permanent Secretary in a volume as soon thereafter 

 as possible. The Committee further recommends that 

 authors wishing to make alterations in abstracts of 

 their papers shall do so before the close of the meeting 

 and that abstracts shall not exceed 400 words in 

 length. It further recommends that the Secretaries 

 of Sections shall forward these abstracts with an ac- 

 count of the work of the meeting to the responsible 

 editor of Science within a week after the close of the 

 meeting. 



3. The Committee recommends that Section K 

 organize at the present meeting by the formation of a 

 Sectional Committee and that papers submitted for 



