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Presents the title and abstracts of papers presented during the 1934 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Increasing significance of geographic conditions in the growth of nation-states; Erosional history of the wind river range, Wyoming; Long-lot farm and economic in public services.

The article presents summaries of papers delivered at the 125th annual meeting of the American Statistical Association. The meeting took place on September 1965 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the paper "On the Construction of Stochastic Working Life Tables," by Haskel Benishay, stochastic working life tables are constructed and evaluated. The essence of the construction of stochastic rather than the traditionally deterministic working life tables is in the utilization of the realistic assumptions that the number of births, the number of entries into the labor force, the duration of life, and the duration of working life, are random variables. The end result is a working life table with a double entry in each cell rather than the single traditional one. The implications of this approach for the evaluation of fluctuations in various subcomponents of the labor force are evaluated. Another paper "Measuring Elasticities of Air Travel," by Samuel L. Brown, summarizes research on the response of demand for air travel to differences of fares, incomes, and elapsed travel time. There are three kinds of studies. Multiple regression studies of time series of air traffic, fares and income in the national domestic market yield short-period fare elasticities and income-elasticities. A quarterly first-difference model stands well the usual statistical tests.

The article throws light on professor Richard Pillsbury's recent article on the urban street pattern of Pennsylvania. It is a welcome indication that geographers are turning to the urban plan as a valuable and as yet little exploited, source in regional analysis. This highly visible element of urban form is particularly suited to the systematic study of urban phenomena in an international context. Useful though the paper is, it prompts some comments upon its methodology and conclusions and the broader context of urban-historical research.

This paper examines the internal and external stresses which accompany the gradual shift of responsibility from local boards of health to a possible eventual domination by the state health department. Fifty seven members of boards of health in 14 communities in one county in Eastern Pennsylvania were interviewed on the present functions of the local boards of health. Our finding suggests that the local board of health is not simply an organization. It is symbolic of a way of life in a community and it represents many things-a part of town, individualism, self-rule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information that the program of the 50th anniversary meeting of the Association of American Geographers will be held on April 11-15, 1954 at the University of Pennsylvania and the Penn-Sherwood Hotel Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Members having professional material to exhibit would have to communicate with university of California. The program committee appointed by the Council is instructed by it to arrange a program of invited papers suitable for the fiftieth anniversary meetings.

The article presents news and information related to dermatology. It states that the twelve dermatological residents will compete in December 1974 for the Fifth Henry W. Stelwagon Prize presented by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia to "the resident who shall be adjudged to give the most outstanding paper" at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology. The Stelwagon Prize stems from an endowment bequeathed to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Henry Weightman Stelwagon, who was the first teacher of Dermatology at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Details the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Charles S. Peirce Society held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 28, 1966. Papers presented at the meeting; Resolutions of the Executive Committee presented; Information on the treasurer's report.