Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-19


Chairman Local Finance Committee.
biologists and naturalists. There were
then $50 members. 1t has made rela-
few years The permanent secretary OF
the society is DR.. L. 0. Howard, chief
Of the bureau of entomology OF the De-
partment of Agriculture. He has had the
arranging of the preliminaries and mas
been busy for almost a year past IN ar
ranging for the great gathering.
Local Committees.
The local executive committee for the
Washington meeting consists Of Robert 3.
Woodward, honorary chairman; Frank
Wigglesworth Clarke, chairman; L. o.
Howard, permanent secretary, A. A. A.
S.; Marcus. Benjamin, William ]. Hum
phreys, Cornelius l.. Shear, Hugh M.
Smith and Charles j. Bell, treasurer.
In addition there has been a local
finance committee to handle the many
expenditures involved in the prepa ration.
This committee consisted Of Charles D..
Walcott, chairman; Hugh NJ Smith. sec
rotary; Gilbert Fl. Grosvenor; Charles j.
Bell, treasurer, ex officio.
Officers of the Association.
The officers of the association areas fol-
lows: 90
President-Charles E. Bessey, University
of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb.
Vice Observation-Disclosures and as
tronomy. Edwin B. Frost, Yerkes OBJ
seryatory, Williams Bay. Wis. physics
Robert A. Millikan, University of Chi
cago. Chicago. ILL.,: chem .stry. Frank K
Cameron. United States Department O1
Agriculture. Washington, D. C.; methan'
ical science and engineering* Charles s
Howe, Case School Applied Science. Cleve-
land, Ohio; geology and geography. Bo'
humil SIimek, State University of Iowa
Iowa City. Iowa: zoology. Henry F. Mach
trieb. University of Minnesota, Minneap-
oils, Mimi: botany. Frederick c. New
combe. University of Michigan, Ann Ar
Dor. Mich; anthropolosy and psychology
Haven. Conn; social and economic ski
ence, J. Pease Norton. Yale University
New Haven. Conn; physiology and ex'
per!mental medicine. William T. Porter
education, Edward l.. ThorndiAe, Column
bia University. New York, n. Y.
Permanent secretary, L. o. Howard
Smithsonian Institution. Washington. d
c.; general secretary, John Zeleny, Uni
versity of Minnesota. Minneapolis. MINI.
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 ILL
nois. Urbana, ILL.,: physics. A. D. Cole
Ohio State University, Columbus. Ohio
chemistry. c. H. Herty. University OF
North Carolina, Chapel Hill, n. c.; me-
cllanical science and engineering, G. W.
BisseN, Michigan Agricultural College
East Lansing, Mich; geology and geog-
raphy. F.. p. CULVER. Norwich. Conn.
zoology, Maurice A. Bigelow, Columbia
University, New York. N. Y; botany,
Henry c. Cowles. University of Chicago
Chicago. ILL.,; anthropoiogy and psychol-
ogy, George Grant MacCurdy, Yale Uni
versity, New Haven. Conn: social and
economic science. Seymour C. LOOMS. sc
Church street. New Haven, Conn; physi-
ology and experimental medicine, George
T. Kemp, West 18th street, Baltimore
Nd; education, c. Riborg Mann. Univer-
sity of Chicago. Chicago, ILL., Treasurer
r.. s. Woodward. Carnegie Institution
Washington, D. c. Assistant to perma'
A. A. A. s.. Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D. G.