Stamps, expressage, and miscellaneous expenses of Secretary....

Balance on hand December 29, 1906.....

97.00

$1,363.82

1,668.II

$3,031.93

Submitted December 29, 1906.

W. W. WILLOUGHBY.

Audited and found correct.

JOHN A. FAIRLIE,

BENJ. F. SHAMBAUGH.

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REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

THIRD ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE

American Political Science Association.

BY THE SECRETARY.

The Third Annual Meeting of the Association was held in Providence, Rhode Island, December 27 to 29, 1906, under the auspices of Brown University. The meeting was in every way a most successful one. The papers read were interesting and valuable, the number of members registering their attendance considerably larger than upon any previous occasion, and the various hospitalities extended of the most delightful character. The University Club opened its doors to its many comforts, and the Brown Union furnished an ideal place for social rendezvous. Wednesday evening the Committee of Management of the John Carter Brown Library tendered a reception at the Brown Union to the members of all the Associations holding sessions at the time in Providence. These other scientific bodies were the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, the American Sociological Society, the New England History Teachers' Association, and the Bibliographical Society of America. On Thursday, a luncheon was given to the members of the Associations at the Lyman Gymnasium, by the Corporation of Brown University, and from five to seven upon the same afternoon, Mrs. William B. Weeden received the members at her beautiful home. Another luncheon was tendered the Political Science

Association by the Trustees of the Providence Public Library and the Trustees of the Providence Athenaeum on Friday at the Lyman Gymnasium; and in the evening of the same day a large smoker to all the associations was held at the Trocadero. At the business meeting of the Association the following officers were elected for the year 1907. Hon. Frederick N. Judson, of St. Louis, President; Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, First Vice-President; Professor H. A. Garfield, Second Vice-President; Professor Paul S. Reinsch, Third Vice-President. In the places of Professors L. S. Rowe, P. S. Reinsch, G. G. Wilson, W. A. Schaper, and J. A. Woodbury, whose terms of office expired, the following members of the Executive Council were elected: Professor A. L. Lowell, of Harvard University, Professor James T. Young of the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Stephen Leacock of McGill University, Professor Theodore Woolsey of Yale University, and Dr. Albert Shaw, retiring President of the Association. Upon the invitation of the University of Wisconsin and other institutions of Madison, Wisconsin, that city was selected as the place of meeting of the Association in December, 1907.

MEETINGS OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. During the year several important meetings of the Executive Council were held.

At a meeting held in the City Club, New York City, November 30, 1906, the following members were present: Albert Shaw, Albert Bushnell Hart, H. A. Garfield, J. A. Fairlie, F. J. Goodnow, B. F. Shambaugh, G. G. Wilson, and W. W. Willoughby. Besides routine business, the principal subject discussed was the suggestion offered by Professor Goodnow that there should be undertaken under the auspices of the Association an examination of the problem of the administration of criminal justice with special reference to American conditions. Upon motion Professors Goodnow, Hart and Willoughby were appointed by the Chair a committee to prepare and submit to the next meeting of the Council a report containing suggestions as to the scope and method of conducting this investigation.

At the meeting of the Council held, December 26, at Providence the following members were present: J. A. Fairlie, F. J. Goodnow, A. B. Hart, P. S. Reinsch, W. W. Willoughby, and G. G. Wilson. A Committee composed of Professors Fairlie and Shambaugh was appointed to audit the accounts of the Treasurer. Professors Goodnow, Dealey, Haynes, Merriam and Shambaugh were appointed a committee to nominate officers of the Association for the year 1907. Professors Garfield, Reinsch, and Willoughby were appointed a committee to supervise the printing of the Proceedings of the third annual meeting. A standing committee composed of Professors Willoughby and Hart, and Dr. Shaw was appointed with power to select members for such Boards and Commissions as the Council might create. Professors Reinsch, Hart and Willoughby were appointed a committee to arrange the program for the annual meeting of the Association in 1907.

Professors Goodnow, Hart and Willoughby submitted the following report upon the proposed investigation of Police Administration which was unanimously adopted:

The Political Science Association, which is now preparing for its third annual meeting, has already proved that there was a vacant field for it to occupy, and each of the three activities already developed has aroused interest and concentrated effort: (1) the annual meetings have been well attended and profitable; (2) the annual report has contained material important alike to the student and to the public; (3) the new journal promises to take its place among the special publications of the country. These three enterprises are not all that the Association can safely carry. With our considerable membership, and keeping in view the widespread interest in problems of government, we think it the obligation of the Association from time to time to initiate new lines of research through special committees or commissions appointed for that purpose. The success of kindred societies, such as the American Historical Association and the American Economic Association, in those directions is an encouragement and an incentive to their younger sister.

From the other side, there are many pressing problems in