September 6, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



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this Section at this meeting be referred in accordance 

 -with their character to Sections H or F. 



[Signed.] Charles S. Minot. 



E. S. Woodward. 



L. O. Howard. 



COMMITTEE ON THE RELATIONS OF THE 



JOURNAL, SCIENCE, WITH THE 



ASSOCIATION.* 



This committee is able to report that the arrange- 

 ment by which Science has this year been sent to 

 the members of the Association has been satisfactory 

 in every respect. It has been generally approved and 

 has apparently strengthened the Association and the 

 organization of science in America. The membership 

 of the Association has greatly increased, the fees of 

 new members sufficing to pay the entire expense of 

 sending Science to all members of the Association. 

 "We recommend that we be authorized to renew for 

 the year 1902 the present contract with The Mac- 

 millan Company. We also recommend that the 

 treasurer of the Association be added to this com- 

 mittee. 



[Signed] Simon Newcomb, Chairman, 



E. S. Woodward, 



L. O. Howard, 



J. McK. Cattell, Secretary. 



COMMITTEE ON CONVOCATION WEEK. 



The plan of setting aside the week in which New 

 Year's Day falls as a convocation week for the meet- 

 ings of scientific and learned societies has met with 

 almost universal approval on the part both of socie- 

 ties and of institutions of learning. At the instance 

 of this committee, the Association of American Uni- 

 versities passed unanimously a resolution recom- 

 mending the establishment of a convocation week, 

 and the thirteen universities composing the Associa- 

 tion have with one exception either left the week en- 

 tirely free from academic exercises, or will give all 

 officers leave of absence. We have now begun cor- 

 respondence with about fifty additional universities, 

 colleges and technical schools. 



In view of the favorable reception of the plan for 

 a convocation week we recommend : 



1. That this Association and its affiliated societies 

 meet in Washington in the week in which New 

 Year's Day of 1903 falls, without, however, commit- 

 ting ourselves at present to the abandonment of sum- 

 mer meetings. 



* Mr. G. K. Gilbert, the remaining member of this 

 committee, was absent in the field and unable to sign 

 this report, but it is known that he concurs in its 

 recommendations. 



2. That the Council meet in Chicago during the 

 Convocation Week of 1901-2, and that the Sectional 

 Committees may organize meetings of their respec- 

 tive Sections, the expenses of each of which shall not 

 exceed $25, to be paid from funds in the hands of the 

 Permanent Secretary. 



3. That this Committee be continued. 



[Signed] Charles S. Minot, 

 E. S. Woodward, 

 Edw. L. Nichols, 

 L. O. Howard, 

 J. McK. Cattell. 



NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COM- 

 MITTEE ON INDEXING CHEMICAL 

 LITERATURE. 



The Committee on Indexing Chemical 

 Literature, appointed by your body in 1882, 

 respectfully presents its Nineteenth Annual 

 Report, embracing the fourteen months 

 from June 1, 1900, to August 1, 1901. 



WORKS PUBLISHED. 



A Select Bihliograpliy of Chemistry, 149'2-1897. By 

 Henry Carrington Bolton. Section VIII., 

 A cademic Dissertations. City of Washington, pub- 

 lished by the Smithsonian Institution. 1901. 8vo. 

 Pp. vi -i- 534. 



This forms No. 1253 of the Smithsonian Miscel- 

 laneous Collections, Vol. XLI. 



This Bibliography of Academic Dissertations is a 

 second part of the work published in 1893, and with 

 the 'First Supplement,' issued in 1899, completes 

 (if the term can be applied to bibliography) the 

 undertaking begun by Dr. Bolton in 1888. The three 

 volumes comprise about 25,000 titles. The disserta- 

 tions found in the libraries of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution and of the U. S. Geological Survey are in- 

 dicated by appropriate initials. There is a full 

 subject-index. 



The completed manuscript of a ' Bibliography of 

 the Analytical Chemistry of Manganese, ' by Professor 

 Henry P. Talbot and John W. Brown, has been care- 

 fully examined by your Committee, and they have 

 recommended it for printing to the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution to which it has been presented. 



works in progress. 

 Mr. Frank E. Fraprie reports progress on his manu- 

 script ' Index to the Literature of Caesium, Eubidium 

 and Lithium,' which is to be completed within a 

 twelve-month. 



Mr. G. A. Smith, of Cornell University, reports 

 that his 'Index to the Literature of Selenium and 

 Tellurium ' will be completed by the close of the 

 lemic year. 



