"Joplin and he will probably get the prize. Because it is something striking, new, and one because it's tetter than Manifold's through an systematic one. We may for a practie competitor. We are all agreed that the methods of our committee are ineffective, and I feel that a great stimulus could be made of this prize, which it is not now. Talked with Pres, Drozes and Secetary Livingston about it and all agre once should be done. The trouble begins with the drama who n't for good health & in that he wants to help the Association and cannot know how to go about it. One has been admitted. Livingston also feels that the Secretaries of the Section are not all doing their duty. Had supper with Pres, Drozes and Livingston and again breakfast the next day with the former. Learned much about the Association. It was dominated by Cattell, and too much controlled by Humphreys and Fairchild. Catell is now out of the Executive council, but the inner circle is not for representation of the Science of America. One of the greater needs is to make Science more representative of America science than it is now; it should be like Nature and Science a far from this sort English craft.