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THE seventy-second meeting of the American. -*o Association for the Advancement of Science was held in St. Louis, Mo., on December 29 to January3, under the presidency of Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York City. The meeting was a most successful one, the attendance of scientific men reaching approximately twelve hundred. St. Louis is the fourth city of the United States in size, and is an extremely progressive centre, paying much attention to educational matters and possessing two universities, two admirable medical schools, an academy of science, the great Missouri Botanical Gardens, and an extraordinarily advanced system of institutions for secondary education. All the meetings (and there were thirty-two distinct organisations meeting at the same time, twelve of them being sections of the association) were held in the single building known as the Soldan High School. In this building there are very many large lecture-rooms with lantern and laboratory facilities, one auditorium with a seatiijg capacity of more than two thousand, and a dining-room with about the same accommodation, and thus the necessity of meeting in distinct and sometimes widely separated buildings, as has occurred in other cities, was avoided.
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The St. Louis Meeting of the American Association. Nature 104, 612–613 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104612b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/104612b0