The Washington times., 1901-07-29
A CONVENTION OF SCIENTISTS.

A CONVENTION OF SCIENTISTS.
The announcement of the fiftieth meet
ing of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, to be held az
Denver August $3.50. foreshadows a
meeting of unusual interest and i'm
portance. 1t Is the frs. ever held in the
great central region of America. and
takes the association far beyond all
former limits. the most remote previously
visited having been Minneapolis
The circular is the first illustrated an
nouncement ever issued. containing four
exterior and interior views of the Denver
High School. where all the meetings and
the reception will be held conveniently
housed under one roof, though there will
be a larger number of sections meeting
simultaneously than ever before. besides
several affiliated societies.
Several important questions of policy
and conduct of the association will be
brought up at Denver. 1t has been sug-
gested that the salary Of the permanent
secretary be fixed at 5000. or else one or
two assistants should be provided for.
Another suggestion Is a change in time
of the meetings from summer to the
Christmas holidays, unless, perhaps,
summer meeting be held, say. every
three years. Several amendments to the
constitution may come up for eonsidera-
tion and settlement by the small fraction
of the total membership which will be
able to attend Rocky Mountain meet
Ing The most important changes to be
acted on at Denver are a provision that
the president and secretary Of each afil-
lated society be made members OF the
IL.
commerce and manufactures. be organ
lied. 1t Is semi-officially announced that
an amendment making the term Of Office
Of the secretaries OF the sections three
years will be offered. but action on II
must be deferred till next year.
The affiliated societies have a. great and
growing Importance in connection with
the association. though the number meet
ing at Denver will be small.
The Denver meeting OF the association.
although the fiftieth meeting. is not the
semi-centennial. several meetings having
been omitted during the war. The pro-
ceedings. when published. will constitute
the fiftieth volume. and an important part
of the business of the meeting will be to
arrange for a general index of the fifty
volumes. which the general secretary.
nounced his intention of undertaking.
The president of the association. DR..
Charles Sedgwick Minot. of Boston, is
well known as the leading specialist in
investigating growth and senescence OF
animal organisms. AS vice president for
the section of zoology at the indianapolis
meeting in 1890. he delivered the vice
presidential address on Certain Phenom-
Of Lob do rlr-
ed impression on account of the novelty
of the theory therein presented. namely.
that incipient decay of the structure is
observable even from earliest youth; or,
as the old hymn writer long before Mi
not's day expressed it,
The moment We begin to live
Then we begin to die.
Another section, X, physiology and ex-
perimentai medicine, was created by
amendment to the constitution at the
New York meeting and it will be organ
lied at Denver, and vice president. secre-
tary, and sectional committee will be
elected. f7r
BY long custom the annual presidential
Is delivered by the retiring. not
the incoming president, and Prof. Wood
ward, of Columbia, occupies that position.
the same custom now extends also to the
several vice presidents. Last year at Co
lumbia only five vice presidential adj
dresses were given, namely, OF Profs
Hall, Merritt, Howe, Kemp, and Trelease.
leaving for the Denver meeting addresses
to be delivered to section A by, D. Prof. 1
John A Brasher. Allegheny. Pa; F. Prof.
Charles B. Davenport, Chicago. ILL.,: II.
Prof. Amos w. Butler. indianapolis. Ind:
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The general exercises of the meeting |
are the opening session at 10 o'clock on |
morning, August 20. called to |
order by the retiring president. Dr. Wood |
ward, who will introduce the president |
elect. DR.. Minot
Addresses of welcome by Governor Or !
nan. of Colorado. and Mayor Wright. of |
Denver. Honorary President ]. 3. Grant |
will introduce Gen. Irving Hale and Aaron |
ioye, who will welcome the association |
IN behalf of the business men Of Denver !
md the educators of Colorado. Reply by |
President Minot.
on Monday afternoon the vice presi-
tents addresses above mentioned:
The reception will be held on Tuesday |
.vening. following the presidential ad- |
iress of the retiring President, DIR. r. 5.
" Woodward. 81
The General Committee will elect Of
icers and agree on the time and place of
he next meeting on Thursday evening |
Il the Brown Palace Hotel, which hotel
s the headquarters of the association:
rhe closing general session will be held
IN Friday evening, August SO.
The papers to be read before the sec
ions will be presented at morning and
Ifternoon sessions on Tuesday, Wednes-
lay, Thursday. and Friday, except as
,art of the time may be taken up with
excursions; but papers will not be numer-
us and more attention will very proper
V be given to field work. the reading of
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