SEPTE3IBER 6, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



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By balance to new account 4741.76 



$12321.60 



I hereby certify that I have examined this account 

 and that it is correctly cast and properly vouched for, 

 and that the balance was on deposit in Washington 

 banks as follows : Citizens National (as per statement 

 Jan. 8, 1901), $3229.62 ; National Safe Deposit (inch 

 interest credited Jan. 1, 1901 ), $519^.43 ; American 

 Security and Trust (incl. interest credited Jan. 7, 

 1901), $1034.58 ; in all, $4783.63. 



G. K. Gilbert, Auditor. 



The following is a list of the of&cers elec- 

 ted to serve at the next meeting, including 

 also the permanent secretary and treasurer 

 previously elected for a term of five years : 



President — Asaph Hall, U. S. N., retired. 



Permanent Secretary — L. O. Howard, chief ento- 

 mologist, Agricultural Department, Washington. 



Assistant Permane7it Secretary — Richard Clifton, 

 Agricultural Department, Washington. 



General Secretary— D. T. MacDougal, director of the 

 laboratories. New York Botanical Gardens. 



Secretary of Council — Professor H. B. Ward, of the 

 University of Nebraska. 



jTreaswrer— Professor E. S. Woodward, Columbia 

 University. 



OFFICERS OF SECTIONS. 



A (Mathematics and Astronomy) — Vice-president, 

 G. W. Hough, Northwestern University ; secretary, 

 E. S. Crawley, University of Pennsylvania. 



B( Physics) — Vice-president, W. S. Franklin, Lehigh 

 University ; secretary, E. F. Nichols, Ohio State Uni- 

 versity. 



C (Chemistry) — Vice-president, H. A. Weber, Ohio 

 State University ; secretary, F. C. Phillips, Western 

 University. 



D ( Mechanical Science and Engineering)— Vice-pres- 

 ident, J. J. Flather, University of Minnesota ; secre- 

 tary, C. A. Waldo, Purdue University. 



E. (Geology and Geography) — Vice-president, O. A. 

 Derby, San Paulo, Brazil ; secretary, F. P. Gulliver, 

 Southboro, Mass. 



F (Zoology) — Vice-president, C. C. Nutting, Iowa 

 State University ; secretary, C. W. Stiles, Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington. 



G (Botany) — Vice-president, D. H. Campbell, Le- 

 land Stanford University ; secretary, H. Von Schrenk, 

 Shaw School of Botany, St. Louis. 



H (Anthropology) — Stewart Culin, University of 

 Pennsylvania ; secretary, H. I. Smith, American 

 Museum of Natural History, New York. 



IX Social and Economic Science) — Carroll D. 

 Wright, commissioner of labor, Washington jsecretary, 

 W. F. Wilcox, Cornell University. 



K (Experimental Medicine and Physiology) — Vice- 

 president, Dr. W. H. Welch, Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity ; secretary, Dr. F. S. Lee, Columbia University. 



The recommendation of the general com- 

 mittee of last year that the Association meet 

 at Pittsburg in .the summer of 1902, was 

 supplemented by Dr. W. J. Holland, Di- 

 rector of the Carnegie Institute, and it was 

 decided to meet at Pittsburg from June 28. 

 to July 3, inclusive, 1902. 



The general committee recommended also 

 that a meeting be held in Washington, D. 

 C, during ' Convocation Week,' or the week 

 in which the first of January falls, in 1903. 



Professor Wm. Trelease and C. M. Wood- 

 ward presented an invitation to the Associ- 

 ation to meet in St, Louis during the time 

 of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 

 1903. This invitation was referred, without 

 formal recommendation, to the general com- 

 mittee of 1902. 



John M. Coulter, 

 General Secretary. 



REMARKS OF PRESIDENT 3IIN0T.* 

 I WAS impressed on my way here with the- 

 somewhat unexpected arrangements I found 

 for securing my services as a visitor at. 

 Denver. We found it easy to get here be- 

 cause we paid for a night's journey upon 

 the road and owing to the delay of the train 

 we got two nights' journey instead of one, 

 showing how attractive it is here and how 

 liberally one is treated coming to Denver. 

 But when I went to your ticket office to in- 



* Made at the opening general session, and reported 

 stenographically . 



