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separate program with separate meetings, and therefore a sepa- rate organization, and that, should any arrangement looking toward a combination with the economists be found desirable, this arrangement had better be made by a completed independent organization, able to deal with the Economic Association on a footing of equality.

Professor Carver, of Harvard, questioned the desirability, for the present at least, of a separate organization. He believed that in many respects the multiplication of organizations is undesir- able, and that for a considerable period there would be too few persons interested in sociology to warrant the creation of an independent society. He was willing, however, to accept the decision of the majority of those interested.

Professor Kinley, of the University of Illinois, considered the formation of a sociological association inevitable, and advocated "taking the bull by the horns at once" and starting a separate organization, even though its beginnings might be modest.

Professor Willcox, of Cornell, made mention of the Ameri- can Social Science Association as an association with which we might possibly affiliate in some way. That organization has a long and honorable history, but, so far as Professor Willcox knew, it was declining, if not already defunct. Perhaps a union of the new organization with this old one might prove extremely beneficial and acceptable to both.

Dr. Ward's motion, that the sociologists form a separate and independent organization, was thereupon put to a vote and car- ried with but two dissenting voices.

Mr. C. R. Woodruff moved that a committee of five persons be appointed to draw up a "scheme of government" for the new organization, and that this committee, appointed by the chair, report at the next meeting, to be held at 3 130 the next day. This motion was seconded and carried, and the meeting adjourned.

Shortly after adjournment, Professor Davenport named the following committee on organization : Professors Veditz, Will- cox, Wells, Cooley, and Lindsay.