The Cleveland Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Associated...

The Cleveland Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science andAssociated Scientific SocietiesSource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Jan., 1931), pp. 83-92Published by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/14946 .

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THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE THE CLEVELAND MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ASSOCIATED SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

THE eighty-seventh meeting of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science will be held in Cleveland during the convocation week beginning December 29, 1930. This will be the fourth time the association has met in Cleveland, the other meetings having oc- curred in 1853, 1888 and 1912-13. Be- sides the fifteen sections of the association about forty independent societies will hold scientific sessions.

The societies which deal with the social and economic sciences have pre- ferred to hold their sessions in the hotels of the down-town district, but the re- maining ones, concerned chiefly with the natural and exact sciences, will have their sessions mainly in twenty buildings of Western Reserve 'University and Case School of Applied Science, both situated at University Circle about four miles from the down-town area.

The registration headquarters for the

University Circle group will be located in the gymnasium of Western Reserve University. In the center of the large floor will be located such things as the registration desks, post-office, telegraph and telephone equipment, information desk and bureau for validation of rail- road tickets, while in booths around the walls will be placed the general scientific and commercial exhibits dealing with re- cent advances in pure and applied science. The gymnasium thus provides a place where members and visitors may find a common meeting ground. The news service department for the convention will be located in a wing of the same building.

The opening session will be held down- town in the Music Hall of the Public Au- ditorium. After brief addresses of wel- come the president-elect, Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan, director of the Kerckhoff

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of the California Institute of Technol- ogy and president of the National Acad- emy of Sciences, will introduce the retir- ing president, Dr. Robert Andrews Milli- kan, head of the California Institute of Technology and director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, the subject of wihose address, the main lecture of the meeting, will be "Atomic Syn- thesis and Atomic Disintegration. " These exercises will be followed by the usual reception, which will be held in the same building.

Meeting places for about two hundred sessions of the various sections and societies lhave been assigned, where scientific and technical papers will be read and discussed. But, besides these papers, the program includes the usual laboratory demonstrations, symposia and general addresses, a number of which will be of interest to those who are not spe- cialists. Among the latter may be men- tioned the Sigma Xi lecture on "The Science of Photography, " to be given on Tuesday evening in the John Hay High School Auditorium by Dr. C. E. K. Mees, of the Eastman Kodak Company. Alany will desire to hear the annual Josiah

Willard Gibbs lecture, arranged by the American Mathematical Society, which is to be given on Tuesday afternoon in the auditorium of the John Hay High School by Dr. Edwin B. Wilson, of Har- vard University. Dr. Wilson's subject, " Reminiscences of Josiah Willard Gibbs," is especially appropriate when we recall that he was a student and col- league of the eminent scientist. Imme- diately following Dr. Wilson's address the Sigma Xi dinner will be held at the Cleveland Club, which is directly across the street from the John Hay High School. On Wednesday afternoon Pro- fessor Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory, will speak on " Galactic Observations." This address by a most renowned authority will be given in the Allen MIemorial Medical Library. Another general session lecture will be one by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka on the subject, "Animal-like Manifestations in the Human Child. "

It is to be regretted that congenial scientific spirits find so little time for social intercourse, nevertheless, the local committee has planned the usual lunch- eons, teas, dinners and smokers. Those



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registering will have entree to the Cleve- land Club and to the Art Museum. There will be daily excursions to Nela Park, a unique institution of the Gen- eral Electric Company. Tickets for the various play-houses and symphony con- certs will be available at the registration headquarters in the gymnasium.

The local arrangements for the meeting at University Circle are in the hands of an executive committee, of which Dr. Harry W. Mounteastle, professor of physics and astronomy in Western Re- serve University, is the active chairman. Dr. Robert E. Vinson, president of West- ern Reserve University, is the honorary chairman, while the Case School of Ap- plied Science is represented by its president, Dr. William E. Wickenden, as honorary vice-chairman. The officers of the association, the Cleveland local committee, with its various special commit- tees, and the Convention Board of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce are all cooperating in the endeavor to make this

one of the most enjoyable convocations which the association has held.

The council of the American Associa- tion will hold a session each day during convocation week. The executive committee also holds daily meetings.

The Secretaries' Conference, a special committee of the American Association, plans to hold its annual dinner and session at Cleveland. The secretary of this conference is Dr. Harley J. Van Cleave, secretary of the American Microscopical Society, who has charge of the program. The chairman is Dr. Philip Fox, secretary of Section D. The conference consists of the secretaries of the association sections, the secretaries of the associated societies and the members of the executive committee of the association.

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ence and three representatives of the association. The secretary of the conference this year is Dr. Chancey Juday, of the Wisconsin Academy, who has charge of the program. The chairman is Dr. D. W. Morehouse, of the Iowa Academy.

The eighth annual award of the American Association prize, of one thou- sand dollars, will be made to the author of a paper presented at the Cleveland meeting. Through the generosity of an anonymous member seven of these prizes have thus far been awarded. The prize is awarded each year to the author of a noteworthy paper presented at the annual meeting. It is not necessary that the author be a member of the association. All papers appearing in the Gen- eral Program are automatically eligible, excepting invited papers and presidential and vice-presidential addresses. In

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DR EDWIN G BORING PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVER1-

SITY; CHAIRMAN OF THE SECTION OF PSY- CHOLOGY.

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DR. FRANK B. JEWETT PRESIDENT OF THE B3ELL TELEPHONE LABORA-

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making the award no attempt will be made to select the "best" paper presented, for useful comparisons are not possible in different fields of science; the intention is simply that the prize shall be awarded to the author of some not- able contribution presented at Cleve- land. Previously published work may be con'sidered when pertineint. The donor of the prize desires to aid younger authors by this means rather than to honor older men. The prize is not to be awarded in the same field of science for two consecutive years.

A list of the names of those to whom the association prize has been awarded is shown below, together with the topics dealt with in the winning papers. (1) The Cincinnati award, January, 1924. L.

E. Dickson, for contributions to the theory of numbers.

(2) The Washington award, January, 1925. Divided equally between Dr. Edwin P. Hubble, for contributions on spiral nebu- lae, and Dr. L. R. Cleveland, for contributions on the physiology of termites and their intestinal protozoa.

(3) The Kansas City award, January, 1926.



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Dr. Dayton C. Miller, for contributions on the ether-drift experiment.

(4) The Philadelphia award, January, 1927. Dr. George D. Birkhoff, for mathematical criticism of some physical theories.

(5) The Nashville award, January, 1928. H. J. Muller, for contributions on the in- fluence of X-rays on genes and chromo- somes.

(6) The New York award, January, 1929. Oliver Kamm, for contributions on the hormones of the pituitary gland.

(7) The Des Moines award, January, 1930. A. J. Dempster, for contributions on the reflection of protons from a calcite crystal.

All members of the association are asked to secure new members or to send to the permanent secretary 's office in Washington names and addresses of persons who might be interested in joining the association. Copies of a booklet on "The Organization and Work of the American Association," as well as membership application cards and sample copies of the journals, may be secured at any time from the permanent secre-

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DR. LEONARD V. KOOS PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF CHI-

CAGO; CHAIRMAN OF THE SECTION OF EDUCA-

TION.

DEAN WALTER C. COFFEY DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA; CHAIRMAN OF THE

SECTION OF AGRICULTURE.

tary office. Membership in the association includes a subscription to the weekly journal Science or the SCIEN- TIFIC MONTHLY, for the calendar year beginning at the close of the annual meeting. The journal alone is worth more than the annual membership dues. An- nual members of the association may have both Science and the SCIENTIFIC MONTHLY by paying $3.00 in addition to the annual dues ($8.00 in all), if the additional payment accompanies the remit- tance of annual dues. Annual members of the association may also subscribe for the Science News-Letter at the specially reduced price of $3.00 per year, if the additional remittances accompany their payment of dues in each case. Life members may receive one or both of the extra journals by paying $3.00 for each subscription.

New members of the association regu- larly pay an entrance fee of $5.00, but this year that fee is remitted to members




of any associated organizations, includ- ing the affiliated state academies. Those who take advantage of this privilege and join at the Cleveland meeting without paying the entrance fee should fill in the blanks on a blue membership application card and present card and dues for 1930-31 ($5.00) when they register. All who attend the Cleveland meeting are asked to join the American Associa- tion when they register, unless they are already enrolled.

Those who are not members of the American Association and who do not wish to join at this time are invited to become associates for this meeting. The associate fee is $5.00. Associates have all the privileges of the meeting, except voting, and they will receive the general reports of the meeting when these are published about February 1. They are to register without paying any registration fee. Associate fees will be used to help defray the costs of the meeting.

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DR. LEONARD P. AYRES

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PANY; CHAIRMAN OF THE SECTION OF SOCIAL

AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES.

Visitors from outside of the United States and Canada who are not members of the association may be invited to the meeting as foreign associates. Mem- bers of the association may recommend to the permanent secretary persons who should receive official invitations, giving reasons. Eligibility to this honor is about the same as eligibility to fellow- ship in the association.

Much information concerning such things as hotel headquarters, transpor- tation, meeting places and other details will be found in the preliminary program published in the issue of Science for November 28, 1930. The editor of this article is Dr. Burton E. Livingston, permanent secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, who may be addressed at the Smithsonian Institution Building, Washington, D. C.



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