Address of the Chairman of the Social Science Research Council.

I AM very glad to greet the guests and members of the council assembling for our annual meeting in this historic building of the oldest, broadest and most distinguished learned society of our country and I have to express to the American Philosophical Society the thanks of the council for permitting us to gather here.. It was fifteen years ago come New Year's that the American Statistical Association elected me to the council. I have attended most of the fifteen annual and spring meetings since that time with pleasure and profit, and have missed the few others only for the most compelling reasons. There are some few connected with the council who have a longer record. My experience over these fifteen years has con-