Abstract :
The meeting of Section M (Engineering) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science will be held in Kansas City, Wednesday, December 30, 1925, in connection with the annual convention of the Association. All interested are welcome to attend. The opening address will be by Dr. A. E. Kennelly, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Harvard University and retiring chairman of Section M. This will be followed by the further addresses; The Relation of Map Making to the Progress of Civilization, by Col. E. Lester Jones, Director of the U. S. Coast Geodetic Survey; Contributions of Seismology to Engineering Design, by Dr. James B. MacElwane, St. Louis University; Human Engineering, by Dean Hugh Miller, George Washington University, and a round table discussion on “The Relation of the Professional Engineering Societies to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.” President M. I. Pupin will preside at the evening session and will offer an address on “The Relation between Pure and Applied Science.” This talk, with possibly two additional speakers of national prominence as engineers and scientists, will close the meeting.
