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scientific work attended the meeting 

 and the citizens of Boston probably 

 find the city already saturated with 

 lectures and addresses. At the meet- 

 ings of the British Association there 

 are usually a thousand or more local 

 members elected for the meeting who 

 provide large audiences. The difference 

 is doubtless largely in the social organ- 

 ization of society; but it is unfortunate 

 that the American Association is able 

 to do so little to give science the dom- 

 inant place it should have in the life 



W. H. Holmes, 



Head Curator of Anthropology, U. S. 



National Museum, Vice-president 



for Anthropology. 



of the people. All those who realize 

 the importance of this problem should 

 unite to do what they can to keep the 

 larger public in touch with the advance 

 of science. 



It is almost bewildering to consider 

 that the titles of more than a thousand 

 scientific papers were printed on the 

 preliminary program. They were dis- 

 tributed among the sciences included in 

 the association, as follows: astronomy 

 and mathematics, 37; physics, 54; 

 chemistry, 254; mechanical science and 

 17; geology and geog- 



De. James E. Hussell. 



Dean of Teachers College, Columbia 



University, Vice-president for 



Education. 



raphy, 141; zoology, 124; botany, 122; 

 anthropology and psychology, 63; so- 

 cial and economic science, 17; physiol- 



Dr. W. G. Sumner, 



Professor of Political and Social Science, 



Yale University, Vice-president for 



Economic and Social Science. 



