Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
SCIENTISTS GATHER
FOR 48 MEETINGS
Most Imposing Array of Spe-
cialists City Has Ever Known
to Record Progress.

Scientists of America will convene
here tomorrow under the auspices OF
the American Association for the Ad-
| Vancement of Science to discuss out
| standing achievements of the past
year and consider new ones for the
| future.
| The occasion will be the seventy
ninth annual convention OF the as
sociation, and it will bring together
In Washington one of the largest and
| most representative groups of scien-
tiflc specialists that has ever assem-
bled in joint session anywhere in the
world.
Fifth Meeting in Capital.
Forty-eight societies. representing
every field of research in the world of
science, from paleontology and geolo-
gy to physics and engineering, will
| meet here in conjunction with the
general convention, which is the fifth
the association has held in Washing
ton since it's organization in 1s48.
Throughout the city, during most
of the week, small groups of men will
hold daily sessions to discuss such
unfamiliar sciences as phytopath-
ology. geology. agronomy and pom
ology in addition to the better known
studies of botany, anthropology,
geography. ornithoIogy, zoology, psy-
chology, physiology and others.
The membership of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science is almost unlimited in It's
scope. and in addition to students of
the highly specialized studies of the
universities the convention has at
tracted to Washington men who will
discuss such domestic arts as refrig-
Grafton, heating and economics under
a common agenda.
Special Exhibit Held over.
Among these will be the exhibition
of current work of the Carnegie In
stitution of Washington, which was
arranged for the annual meeting OF
the board of directors of the insti-
tuition early this month. The entire
exhibition was held intact for the in
spection of the delegates to the con-
vention and may be viewed by the
general public, too, in the Admins
tration Building, Sixteenth and T
streets.
Other exhibitions, exclusive OF the
main one, may be viewed at the fol-
lowing places: National Academy OF
Sciences Building, Twenty-first and
B streets; United States Weather
Bureau. Twenty-fourth and NJ streets
United States Naval Observatory
Hygienic Laboratory; Central High
School, which will be devoted ex-
clusively to biological exhibitions.
w ]. Showalter. associate editor
of the National Geographic Maga-
zine, has had charge of arranging
the main exhibit. The exhibits in
clude contributions by individual
scientists as we'll as firms that manu-
facture scientific instruments. some
of which have resulted in important
achievements during the past year.
Similar exhibitions are expected to
become part of all future conven-
tions.
Sixty Firms Take Part.
The general exhibition is the most
complete and representative held by
the aSSocia ton in recent years. About
60 business firms that supply scientific
instruments and materials and pub
fishers of scientific books are taking
part and a large number of individual
men Of science are exhibiting new re-
search methods and instruments re-
Gently devised by themselves or their
staffs. The general exhibition will
open Tuesday at 1 o'clock. 1t may
be visited at the following hours
thereafter during convocation week:
Tuesday, December 80, from l pm.
to $780, and from pm. to $3.50.
Wednesday, December 81. from 10
am. to $40 pm, and from z pm. to
$50.
Thursday. January 1, from pm. to
$40.
Friday, January .. from pm. to
$40.
Saturday, January 3. from 10 am. to
$50 pm.
Admission is free to all holding
identification cards for the conven-
ton, which are secured on registra-
ton in the registration room of the
New Willard Hotel. A catalogue of the
general exhibition is in preparation
and will be available for distribution
Tuesday morning at the registration
room and Tuesday afternoon at the
exhibition room itself.
Washington, which has more resi-
dent scientists in proportion to its
population than any other city in the
United States, has thrown wide the
doors of it's institutions and organi-
zations for scientific research to the
visitors, and during the week they,
together with several of its educa-
tional institutions. will become the
meeting places for the affiliated So
cieties.
Meeting RoofsA Available.
To accommodate all of the meet
ings that are to be held outside OF
the general convention, Memorial
Continental Hall. George Washington
University, Central High School, the
National Geographic Society, the
many Government scientific bureaus
and Offices, the Smithsonian Institu-
ton, the Carnegie Institution of
Washington, the National Museum
and the home Of the National
Academy OF Sciences and the Ma,
tional Research Council have loaned,
one or more rooms.
General headquarters have been es-
tablished in the Willard Hotel be-
cause of it's central location and all
accredited delegates are expected to
go there and register. Delegates
from the different societies have been
assigned to hotels in such a manner
that, as nearly as possible, those en-
gagged in like lines of research may
be together during their stay in
Washington.
The opening session of the gen
eral convention will be called to
order in Memorial Continental Hall