The Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceSource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Jan., 1930), pp. 87-89Published by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/14714 .

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THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE

ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

TITLE annual meetingf of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- ence and associated organizations will be held at Des Moines, Iowa, from Friday, December 27, 1929, to Thursday, Jan- uary 2, 1930. This will be the eighty- sixth meeting of the association and the first to be held in Des Moines. It will probably not be as large as some recent annual meetings but the main fields of science will be well represented and this annual week of American science will be a very full one. All who are inter- ested in the advancement of science and education are cordially invited to attend any of the sessions devoted to the read- in, of papers. A large number of lec- tures and addresses of general interest will be given and the exhibition of sci- entific apparatus, materials and books will be very attractive.

The Des Moines meeting will be held under the presidency of Dr. Robert A. Millikan, director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics of the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Millikan will give a public talk in the Shrine Temple on Sunday afternoon, his sub- ject being "The Alleged Sins of Sci- ence. " The retiring president of the association this year is Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, eminent paleontologist and educator, president of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, who will be the main speaker at the association's opening session in the Shrine Temple on Friday evening. Professor Osborn 's address will be on "The Discovery of Tertiary Man." The annual Sigma Xi lecture will be given on Saturday evening, by Dr. George H. Parker. nrofpqqnr of 7nnl1ov

at Harvard Universitv, who will speak on the general aims of men and women of science. Addresses will be given by the retiring vice-presidents for the sev- eral sections of the association. The Josiah Willard Gibbs lecture, of the American Mathematical Society, will be given on Mlonday afternoon by Dr. Irving Fisher, of Yale University. The Committee of One Hundred on Scien- tific Research is arranging a symposium on the economic status of research workers.

The preliminary announcement of the Des Moines meeting makes up most of the issue of Science for November 29, which presents many details about the meeting, including instructions regard- ing reduced railway rates for those who attend. It contains information about the program of each of the sections of the association, including the societies that are to meet with it this vear. Those who do not receive the official journal, Science, may secure free copies of the preliminary announcement by addressing the permanent secretary s office, Smithsonian Institution Building, Washington, D. C., as long as the sup- ply lasts. The general reports of the meeting are to be published in two spe- cial issues of Science for January 24 and 31, and free copies of these may be secured in the same manner.

The Press Service of the American Association is making arrangements by which scientific news from the meeting will be readily available to newspapers and news agencies, and a number of radio talks by leading scientists are to be broadcast from Des Moines in the m"v cainc n-";^A

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DES MOINES AS A PLACE OF MEETING

DR. D. W. MOREHOUSE, president of Drake University and chairman of the local committee, writes that the first Des Moines meeting of the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science is an occasion of great moment to the State of Iowa. He says that every sci- entific worker or teacher has reserved the dates December 27 to January 2 for the past three years, looking forward to this meeting with great enthusiasm and anticipation. The Iowa Academy of Science has fostered the project with untiring energy and timely assistance. The citizens of Des Moines are said to count it the most significant gathering they have ever had the honor to enter- tain. The Chamber of Commerce,

through the secretary of the Convention Bureau, has actually made the meeting possible, first through its financial sup- port, but even more significantly by its enthusiasm and personal work during the last three months.

Des Moines is a city of diversified interests. It is not primarily agricul- tural, industrial or commercial, but it is a center of education and culture. Some years ago an eastern visitor ex- pressed his surprise that he found Des Moines not a western agricultural town, but a center of culture and education. A European traveler, B. Ifor Evans, in his book, "Encounters," writes: " The unexpected gives the element of fun to life; it shows the greatness of the pat-

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