THIRD ANNUAL MEETING 
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quantity sufficient to publish 400 pages a year. Is the Editor to be placed in a 
position where it will be necessary for him to refuse valuable contributions? It 
would seem that the Society could ill afford to sanction such a predicament. Dif- 
fusion of knowledge is as essential as its creation. Immense endowments are 
given to be devoted to research, investigations, and explorations. Compara- 
tively small sums set aside as permanent publication funds would make available 
some of the results now buried in manus(;ripts. It is, therefore, essential to the 
best interests of the Society, the Journal, and everybody concerned, that definite 
and positive action be immediately taken to raise a Permanent Publication Fund. 
Any amount raised would actually be worth double the amount to the Journal 
because of the assured increase in the number of Subscriptions which would 
follow the improvement in the Journal. 
The program follows : 
MONDAY, MAY 2 
10:00 A. M. 
Meeting of the Board of Directors 
Afternoon Session, 2:00 P. M. 
1. Remarks on certain mammals of Panama. E. A. Goldman. Twenty minutes. 
Illustrated by lantern slides and specimens. 
2. A singing mouse. H. H. Lane. xFive minutes. 
3. Disposition and intelligence of the orang-utan. W. H. Sheak. Fifteen 
minutes. 
4. The California elk-drive of 1904. C. Hart Merriam. Fifteen minutes. 
5. Some observations on beaver culture with reference to the National Forests. 
Smith Riley. Thirty minutes. 
6. Progress in mammalogy during 1920. General discussion for members. Led 
by T. S. Palmer. Sixty minutes. 
Evening Session, 8:15 P. M. 
7. A motion picture record of the animal collections of the Washington and 
Philadelphia Zoological Parks. (Made with the camera invented by Carl 
E. Akeley.) Arthur H. Fisher. 
TUESDAY, MAY 3 
Morning Session, 10:00 A. M. 
8. Geography and evolution as pertaining to the kangaroo rats of California. 
Joseph Grinnell. Twenty-five minutes. 
9. Nerve-endings of the maculae and cristae acusticae. H. H. Lane. Ten 
minutes. Illustrated by chart and demonstrations. 
Business Session, 10:45 A..M. 
Afternoon Session, 2:00 P. M. 
10. Life histories of African squirrels and related groups. H. Lang. Forty 
minutes. Illustrated by lantern slides. 
