New-York tribune., 1922-12-18
5000 Scientists
Will Meet in
|ChristInasW eek
Every Field of Progress To
Be Represented at 18th
Meeting of American As
ISOLATION for Five Days
Program of Problems
Mass. Institute Of TechnoI.
ogy and Harvard Will Be
Hosts of ~ Societies
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CAMBRIDGE. Msss, Dec. i7.-Thrss
thousand scientific men from every part
Of ths United States and Canada will
invads Boston and Cambridge Christ
mas week for the discussion Of scien-
tito problems Of the present day. when
the American Association for tho Ad-
vaneensnt Of Science holds its seventy
hfth meeting here December % 20 30, At
the Joint invitation Of the Massa-
chusstts Institute Of Technology and
Harvard University.
The sessions will mostly be held in
ths Technology buildings in Cambridge,
The Pratt Building will serve as head
quarters for the American association.
A few Of the meetings will be held at
Harvard and other educational institu-
uonh will participate in the welcome 10
the visiting men Of sciences.
Every field Of scientific progress will
be represented By distinguished men.
The American association Is divided
into Afteen sections, each for the dis
cussion Of a special subject, such IS
physics, astronomy or zoology, and has
no less than forty-two different soei-
eties afiliated with Il.
To Open December rs
The convention will open formally on
Tuesday evening, December %, with a
big meeting at the Walker Memorial.
Professor Samuel c. Prescott. of NJ. |. T.,
chairman Of the local committee on Ar
rangements, will introduce Mayor
Quinn Of Cambridge, Mayor Curley Of
Boston, Dean II. p. Talbot Of u. /. /.
and President Lowell Of Harvard, who
will welcome the visitors on behalf OF
the cities and the universities which are
acting as hosts. Then Professor Pres
colt WILL turn over the meeting 20 Pro-
fessor J. Playfair MeMurrieh, Of To-
ronto, president OF the American as
sociAtion, who will introduce the
speaker Of the evening, DR.. Z. II. Moore
Of the University Of Chicago.
On Wednesday, December 81, and the
two following days sessions Of the vari-
Gus sections will be held morning and
afternoon in lecture halls and class
rooms at Technology. There will also
bo a number Of features OF more gen
eral interest on these days.
On Wednesday afternoon from I 70 s
all the laboratories Of the institute,
with much interesting apparatus. will
be open 70 The delegates for inspection.
President Livingston Farrand Of Cor
nell will give the annual Sigma Xi lee.
ture that same evening, and there will
also be a big smoker for the biologists
al Walker Memorial. On Thursday all
the delegates will be invited 70 visit
Harvard, and luncheon will be served
In Memorial Hall. Thursday evening
many Of the societies will have din
ners, and Professor W. M; Davis, OF
Harvard, will lecture at the Walker
Memorial on Lessons From the Grand
Canyon"
'PhysieaI Basis OF Life"
The main feature on Friday. Deeem-
Der 20. will be tho SedRwiek Memorial
lecture 20 be given in Huntington Hall
AZ A,s0 In the afternoon by Professor
Edmund B. Wilson, Of Columbia on
"The Physical Basis OF Life There
will be a few meetings on Saturday
and then the delegates will 20 their
separate Ways and the convention will
be over.
The oaieers, aside from President
AeMurrich and retiring President
Moore, include a permanent secretary
DIR. Burton z. Livingston, Of Johns
Hopkins University general seere-
tary, DR.. d. T. MaeDougal, Of the Car,
negie Institution, Of Washington. and
a treasurer, r. S. Woodward OF the
Carnegie Institution. The chairman o.
the executive committee Of the council
IL DR.. Simon Flexner, OF the hoeke-
feller Institute.
The local COMMITTEES on arrange
rnents consists Of tweuty-nine mem
bers, representing Technology, hhr,
ward, Tufts, Wellesley, Simmons and
Boston University. Professor Samuel
c. Prescott, Of II. I. t. Is the chair
man.
The American Association for the
Advancement Of Science was founded
sevsnty-hvs years ago, and now nas
membership Of more than eleven thou
sand.