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given place for our National Society
to meet. I hope you will write
to some or all of our members to
be sure to go & write something.
The A. A. A. S. [sic.] is and always
will be run by a ring, so long as
the present constitution and by-laws
exist. It will be likely to get into ruts.
The writer of a paper can usually
read his paper in the section
where he choses. [?] Biology
need not encroach on microscopy.
If I were to read a paper on
the streaming motion of protoplasm
in cells – or stomata, I
should request to read it in Biology,
of course. Your tissues of [monocolotedons?],
if you request it, can go
into Biol. I think.

I very
much question whether I go to
Iowa next year. I cannot attend to every
thing. The assocation of college
Profs. is very good, but ours
will take the place of it, so far as