The New York herald., 1922-12-17
5000 SCIENTISTS
MEET NEXT WEEK
American Association for Ad-
vancement Of Science Ses-
sions at Cambridge.

Special Dispatch 20 THE New York HERALD.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Dec. 16.-More
than 5000 men of science from the
United States and Carlada will assemble
here Dec $3.50 for the seventy-fifth
meeting Of the American Association for
the Advancement OF Science. Harvard
University and Massa chusetts Institute
Of Technology will be irosts.
The sessions will mostly be held in
the Technology buildings. The Pratt
building OF the institute will serve as
headquarters. A few of the meetings
will be held at Harvard and other edu-
cational institutions Of Greater Boston
will participate in the welcome.
Every field of science progress will be
represented by distinguished men. The
association has fifteen sections, each for
the discussion of a. special subject and
has forty-two societies affiliated with 1t.
All these sections and nearly all the
affiliated societies will hold sessions.
Every morning and afternoon for three
days there viii be as many as twenty
meetings going on simultaneously, each
devoted to discussion of latest scien-
tific Investigate k,n in some special sub
ject More thepn thousand addresses
and papers will be presented.
The subjects TO be covered include
mathematics, physics. chemistry, as
ical sciences. botany, anthropology, psy-
choiogy. social and economic sciences,
engineering medical sciences, agricul-
tural and education.
The convention will open formally
Tuesday evening, EeHmber 26. with q
l.bg meeting at the Walker Memoriai
building at Technology. Prof. Samuel =.
PreseOtt of NJ. !. t. chairman of the
local committee on arrangements, Will
;,,+r Quinn nf tCambridge.
Mayor Curley of Boston, Dean II. r:
Talbot of NJ I. r. and President Lowell
of Harvard, who will make ad-
dresses of welcome. Then Prof. Prescott
will turn over the meeting to Prof. D.
Playfair Mc.Mlirrich OF Toronto. presi-
dent of the association who will In
troduce the speaker of the evening. DR..
Il. II. Moor of the University OIL
Chicago, retiring president.
"Wednesday afternoon the labora-
| tories of the institute will be open to
the delegates for inspection President
Livingston Farrapd of Cornell will give
the annual Sigma XII lecture Wednesday
evening. On Thursday the delegates
will visit Harvard and inspect Its var
ious buildings. laboratories and libraries
Luncheon will be served at Memorial
Hail. Thursday evening many of the
societies will hold dinners.
The main feature on Friday will be
the Sedgwick Memorial lecture to be
given in Huntington Hall by Prof. Ed
| mund b. Wilson Of Columbia on The
Physical Basis OF Life" There will be
a few meetings Saturday, preceding
| adjournment.
| other officers of the association in
clude DIR. Burton Il. Livingston of Johns
Hopkins University. permanent secre-
tary: DR.. d. Il. MacDougal Of the Car
i r~o oft naner1l secretary :.
r. S. Woodward of the Carnegie Insthu-
ton. treasurer. The chairman of the
executive committee of the cosipcil is DR..
Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller In
stitute.
The local committee on arrangements
has twenty-nine members. representing
Technology Harvard. Tufts Wellesley.
Simmons and Boston University Prof.
! Samuel c. Prescott of NJ !. r.. Is chair
man, and A. L. Townsend of M. ]. t.,
secretary, and Everett Morss. member
| OF the executive committee of the NJ. l. r.
Corporation and former head of the
Boston Chamber of Commerce. treasurer.
Other NJ I. Il. members of the com
| mittee are DR.. z. r. Bigelow. Assistant
Dean II. Il. Lobdell and Prpfs. ~ +.
Holmes. Waldemar Lindgren. j. f. Nor
! ris, G. l.. Norton and III. w. Tyler.
Another member is Mrs. p. c. Maclaurin,
widow OF President Maclaurin.
The Harvard representatives are Profs.
c. H. Parker, Harlow Shapley. w. NJ.
Wheeler, w. j. " Osterhout. Theodore
Lyman, A. b. Lamb, Edward 5. King,
| A. ]. Inglis. l.. ]. Henderson and ]. w.
Bailey and Frederick J.. Allen. secretary
to the corporation.
Also on the committee are Profs. c..
| C. Anthony and III. V. Neal of Tufts.
George Fl. Barton OF Wellesley. Prof. A
F.. Blood Of Simmons. e. c. Wiln OF
Boston University and Mrs E. p. Cum
nngham Of Boston.
The association was founded seventy
five years ago and has a membership
of more than eleven thousand.