Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-21
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES TO
 MEET IN NEW YORK
Every University in United States to
 Be Represented Next Week.

New York, Dec. 20.-Scientists will gather here during the week between Christmas and New Years in greater numbers than ever seen before, accord ing to an announcement of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and coincident meetings of forty seven other scientific societies. Every university in the United States will be represented says the announcement, "and with few exceptions every scien- tific man of prominence will be pres- ent. It is estimated that between five and ten thousand scientific men and women, representing every branch of science, will make up the convention"
 The programme is so formidable that it takes a book half an inch thick to list all of the papers that will be read on the results of scientific effort during the past year. The titles range from Fossil Insects" to Efficiency in War" The discussion will be both abstruse and popular, and the public is invited to attend. Meetings will be held in Columbia Univerhity, City College, and the American Museum of Natural History. as well as some other places yet to be designated.
 In announcing this Science Week" the association calls attention to the fact that contemporary history has made evident to all the dominant place of science in modern life. New York city may now become the worlds f. nancial center; it is even more inn portant tous as nation that the New York meeting of the association shall signalize the period at which our coun- ty becomes the most fruitful center of scientific research"
 The scientists will divide into groups, attending such meetings as interest them, but there vii be a few meetings which all will attend. One such will be on the night of Tuesday, December 26, at the American Museum of Natural History, where Dr. w. w. Campbell. director of the Lick Astron- omical Observatory will address the members on '"The Nebulas," which is popularly known as "The Milky Way"
 Those interested iD geography will hear Prof. Jefferson of the Michigan Geographic Provinces of the United States" Fossil Insects" will be the title ia paper by Prof. D. A. Cock erel to be read before the Entomologi- cal Society of America.
 Natus1 symPSsum stance on with Rlology and Professors Stewart Payton, w. J. Spill man, Bernard l.. Kellogg, Jacqus Loeb, and Edwin G. Conklin will be held by the American Society of Naturalists.
 The American Genetic association will hear it's prenident, David Fairchild, of the United States Department of Agri- culture speak on "The Importance of Photographs in Presenting Eugenic Discoveries"
 The American Psychological asocia- tion celebrates the twenty fifth anni- versary of it's foundation during the week.
 Dr. George F. Kunz of New York will dSliver an address on Scientific Efficiency and Industrial Museums Our Safeguards in Peace and War"
 The Automobile Club of America, the National Highways association, the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, the Society of the Promo tion of Engineering Education will all hold joint sessions during the week
 DSan Eugene Davenport of the University of Illinois will speak on the Outlook for Agricultural Science"