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Rh the states of Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Arizona; in Mexico, Alaska, the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands. No fee is assessed upon members of the Pacific Division in addition to that paid by regular members elsewhere, and members enjoy all the benefits of relation with the parent body, as well as with the Pacific Division. The various fields of scientific research are represented by affiliations with local scientific societies. Several of these societies are branches of national organizations. Sections of the division may be established in any field not covered by a regularly organized society.

The societies which have already allied themselves with the Pacific Division are: the California Academy of Sciences, the Technical Society of the Pacific Coast, the Seismological Society of America, the Cooper Ornithological Club, the Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America, the Pacific Coast Paleontological Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Coast, the Biological Society of the Pacific, the Puget Sound Section of the American Chemical Society, the San Francisco Section of the Archeological Institute of America, and the Pacific Slope Association of Economic Entomologists.

In its scope the Pacific Division purposes to enlist the support of all those within the Pacific region who are interested in scientific matters and to establish affiliations with societies organized in this region for the advancement of scientific work and knowledge.

American Association for the Advancement of Science determined at the Cleveland meeting, in January, 3 913. to hold a special meeting in San Francisco and vicinity during the year of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco and of the Panama-California Exposition at San Diego. The Pacific Coast Committee of the American Association in charge of this meeting has chosen the week beginning Monday, August 2, as the time for the meeting. The general sessions will be held in San Francisco, while the joint meetings of sections and of societies and the special meetings of societies will be held at the University of California in Berkeley, and on Wednesday, August 4, at Stanford University, rear Palo Alto.

This will be the first meeting of the American Association to be held west of the Rocky Mountains. It will, moreover, be in a sense a part of the celebration commemorating the completion of the Panama Canal. Special attention will be given to investigations of world-wide interest for which materials are to be found upon the borders of the Pacific. Many of the scientific problems of the west, though peculiar to the region, are of very general interest in their bearing upon fundamental questions of research. The program for the San Francisco meeting will be composed to a considerable extent of contributions relating to such questions of far-reaching significance. Discussions of other important scientific topics will also be presented.

The opening session of the meeting will be held at the Scottish Rite Auditorium in San Francisco at 10, Monday, August 2. A general reception will be tendered the visiting members of the association that evening. Four notable addresses are planned for the general evening sessions of the week. Recent developments in oceanographic research will be presented by Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, of Norway. Professor R. A. Daly, of Harvard University, will offer an address upon geologic and biologic problems of the islands of the south Pacific ocean. Professor AV. B. Scott, of Princeton University, will discuss the influence of crustal movement in the region of the Panama Canal on the paleontologic relations of North and South America. Dr. Paul S. Reinsch, American ambassador to