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THE fifty-second annual meeting of the American Association was held at Washington, December 29 to January 3, and was in many respects the most successful meeting ever held in the fifty odd years of the existence of the Association. As pointed out in the article in NATURE of July 24, 1902, in the account of the Pittsburg meeting of last June, this is practically the first time in which the Association has met during the winter since the close of the Civil War, and in this meeting culminated the prolonged efforts of a special committee of the Association, of which Dr. Charles Sedgwick Minot was chairman, to bring about an agreement among the scientific and other leari?ed societies and the leading universities and other institutions of learning in the United States to set apart the week in which the first of January falls as a “Convocation Week,” and in this week to bring together at one place as many as possible of the scientific societies. This culmination of the efforts of Dr. Minot's committee was eminently satisfactory. The meeting was a great success, and the institution of Convocation Week has apparently been established under the most favourable auspices.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science . Nature 67, 298–299 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067298b0
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