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Vice-president for Anthropology and Psychology, professor of psychology, University of Michigan.

usefulness of the association. Reports were received in regard to the organization of the Pacific Coast Division, authorized a year ago, in view of the meeting of the association in California at the time of the Panama Exposition, but also empowered to hold independent meetings. The associate secretary for the south made a report on conditions in that region. A committee with Senor Eduardo Braga as chairman was formed with a view to the organization of a Brazilian division. If the association can become "American" in fact as well as in name, it will be a stimulus to science throughout the western hemisphere and a means of promoting goodwill among its republics. The establishment of local branches of the association was authorized in places where the members are prepared to conduct branches which will forward the objects of the association. This movement has possibilities of great development, especially in institutions and places somewhat remote from the large scientific centers where there are no academies of sciences or similar organizations. It was decided to arrange once in four years—in New York in 1916–17 and in Chicago in 1920–1—representative convocation-week meetings, in