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 THE TORONTO MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

As guests of the University of Toronto and the Royal Canadian Institute, the American Association for the Advancement of Science holds its seventy-fourth meeting at the University of Toronto from December 27 to 31. Meeting with the various sections of the association and in many cases joining in their programs are twenty-five associated societies.

The association is American, its field covering North, Central and South America, but it has never met south of the United States. Its last meeting in Canada was at Toronto twenty-two years ago. Previous meetings had been held in Montreal in 1857 and 1882.

Professor Eliakim Hastings Moore, head of the department of mathematics at the University of Chicago, will preside at the general sessions. Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the Bureau of Entomology of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, will deliver the address of the retiring president on the evening of the first day, his title being, (a) "On some presidential addresses; (b) "The War on the Insects."

At the joint invitation of the American Association and the American Society of Zoologists, Dr. William Bateson, director of the John Innes Horticultural Institution, England, will attend the meetings and

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