The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-30
SCIENTISTS SESSION
FIFTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING IN NEW ORLEANS.
About 300 Delegates Are in Attend- ance and Listen to Many Inter-
 esting Papers--Member- ship Reachea 4,321.


 New Orleans, Dec. 29.--The fifty ninth annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science opened here today with about 300 delegates registered. Among those i present are many men of national and International prominence.
 The first general session occurred in Temple Sinai, where former Congress- man c. F. Buck on behalf of the Gov ernor; Mayor Behrman and President Craighead of Tulane University made addresses of welcome. Professor w. W. Farlow. of Harvard, the retiring president presented the new president. Calvin M. Woodward of St. Louis. Af- ter the reception of the delegates, the various sections proceeded to different halls for business, many of them ac- commodated at Tulane University. It Is expected that the attendance will be swelled to 500 during the con- vention. Among the matters to be dis cussed is a change in the time of meeting to summer in order to secure larger attendance at the meetings. For the South one of the most impor- tant sectional meetings will be that of section on physiology and experimental medicine. beginning Monday, at which there will be symposium on yellow fever with papers by Surgeon J. H. White. President Kohnke, of the City Board Nof Health: pr. James Carroll. who asfisted in conducting the original experiments at Havana, and others.
 The association will be in session until Tuesday. Local committees have prepared series of daily and night ly entertainments for the visitors dur ing their stay in the city.
 At the session of the general coun- ell today resolution was unanimous ly adopted asking congress to. take immediate steps toward the preserva- tion of Niagara Falls.
 The social and economical section of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science began it's ses- sions at II o'clock in the assembly room of the board of trade Hon. Eugene Williams, of Waco. Texas, de- livered an address on The Possibili- ties of Cotton warehousing From the Producers Standpoint"
 Frank R. Rutter. of the department of agriculture. Washington. D. C.. read treatise on Factors Determin- ing the Price of Sugar."
 Prof. W. R. Dodson, of the State ex- pertinent station at Baton Rouge, lec- tured on utilization of the By-pro- .ducts of the Cane, Sugar and Rice Mills"
 All the sections were organized after the session of the council and four of them held brief sessions during the afternoon. the program having been curtailed in order to permit the dele gates to attend a reception at the resi- dence of Mrs. T. c. Richardson. Mrs. Richardson is both scientific botanist and a patron of botany, and she is said to have the largest collection of live tropical flowers to be seen on the con- tinent. The collection attracted much attention from the delegates.
 The afternoon session of the sections was to hear addresses by the retiring vice presidents. Vice President ziwet's address before the section on mathe- matics was on The Relation of Me- chanics to Physics:" Vice President Kinnicutt's before that on chemistry on '"The Sanitary Value of Water Analy- sis": Vice President Smiths before that on Geology on Some Post-Eccene, and Other Formations of the Gulf Region of the United States: and Vice President Merriams before that on Zoology, on "Is Mutation Factor in the Evolution of the Higher VertebratesT.
 There are extended lists of papers to be read before each section beginning tomorrow.
 Tonight the delegates with their fam flies and local people gathered in the auditorium of Sophie Newcomb Col lege. where they listened to the annual address of the retiring President, Dr. W, c. Barlow of Harvard.
 Ol. ralioW supJeSt was Auo Topu- lar Conception of a Scientific Man of the Present Day"
 During the day an invitation was extended to the association to visit and inspect the sewerage, water and drain age system in course of construction in New Orleans, at a cost of $20,000,000.
 In his address responding to the welcome extended. President Wood ward, of St. Louis, said that the mem- bership of the association has now reached 4,321. Most of the principal countries of the world are represented in 1t. It is expected the membership will approximate 5000 at the close of another year.
 It has been arranged to take the delegates during their stay to the su- gar plantations, experiments farms and various industries in which they may be interested.