The Washington herald., 1911-12-26

vocation week meetings. There will be a
business meeting Of the executive COM
mittee Of the council at the New Willard
Hotel to-day at noon. Tomorrow even
ing at s o'clock the general session Of the
association will be opened in the main
assembly hall of the National Museum.
1t Is expected that President Taft will
deliver the address Of welcome.
Tine meetings Of the sections will be
held at their various meeting places at
10 a. m. December q, and will continue
through December so. An exhibition drill
will be given al Fort Myer on the after
Noon of December 2S, and in the evening
an informal reception in the Corcoran
Art Gallery.
Formed in 1S4O.
The Association for the Advancement
of Science is one of the oldest scientific
organizations in the country. 1t was
formed in Philadelphia in 1870 by a few
biologists and naturalists. There were
then $50 members. 1t has made rela-
lively the largest growth in the past
few years The permanent secretary OF
the society is DR.. L. o. Howard, chief
of the Bureau Of Entomology of the De-
partment Of Agriculture. He has had the
arranging of the preliminares and has
been busy for almost a year past in ar
ranging for the great gathering.
The officers of the association are as
follows:
The National Officers.
! President-Charles z. Bessey, Univer-
sity of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nebr.
Vice Observation-Disclosures and as
tronomy, Edwin B. Frost, Yerkes OBJ
servatory. Williams Bay, Wis; physics,
Robert A. MilIikan, University of Chi
cago, Chicago. Ill; chemistry, Frank X.
Cameron, United States Department OF
Agriculture. Washington, D. c.; mechan-
iCal science and engineering, Charles S.
Howe, Case School Applied Science.
Cleveland, Ohio; geology and geography,
Bohumil Shimek, State University of
Iowa Iowa City. Iowa: zoology, Henry
F. Nachtrieb, University of Minnesota.
Minneapolis. Mimi; botany. Frederick c.
Newcombe, University of Michigan. Ann
Arbor. Mich; anthropology and psychol-
ogy, George T. Ladd, Yale University.
New Haven, Conn: social and economic
science. J. Pease Norton, Yale Univer-
sity, New Haven. Conn: physiology and
experimental medicine. William T. Por-
ter. Harvard Medical School. Boston,
Mass; education, Edward l.. ThOrndike,
Columbia University, New York, n. Y.
Permanent secretary. l.. o. Howard,
Smithsonian Institution. Washington, d.
c.; general secretary, John Zeleny. Uni
NerSitY/Of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Mimi. :;
secretary of the council. Theodore S Pal
mer. United States Department of Agri-
culture, Washington, D. c. Secretaries
OF the sections: Mathematics and astron-
omy, George A. Miller. University of Illi-
nois. Urbsna. Ill; physics. A. D. Cole,
Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio;
chemistry, c. H. Herty, University Of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, n. c.; me-
chanical science and engineering, G. w.
Bissell, Michigan Agricultural College
East Lansing, Mich: geology and geog-
raphy, F. P. Gulliver. Norwich. Conn. !;
zoology, Maurice "A. Bigelow, Columbia
University. New York; botany. Henry c.
Cowles, University of Chicago. Chicago,
Ill: anthropoIogy and psychology. George
grant MacCurdy, Yale University; social
and economic science. Seymour C.
Loomis, New Haven, Conn; physiology
and experimental medicine, George T.
Kemp. Baltimore, Md: education, c. Ri
borg Mann, University of Chicago.
Treasurer, r. S. Woodward, Carnegie In
stitution. Assistant to permanent secre-
tRry, F. s. Hazard, Smithsonian Institu-
tlon, Washington, D. c.
Capital Committees.
The local executive committee consists
of Robert S. woodward. honorary chair
man; Frank wigglesworth Clarke, chair