NOTES BY THE EDITOE 



OX THE 



PROGRESS OF SCIENCE DURING THE YEAR 1855, 



THE seventh annual and ninth regular session of the American 

 Association for the Promotion of Science was held at Providence, R. L, 

 during the week commencing with August loth, Dr. John Torrey, 

 of New York, President. The whole number of papers presented was 

 67 : in z\stronomy and Mathematics, 17 ; on Physics and Chemistry, 

 11 ; Geology and Mineralogy, 22 ; Zoology and Botany, 5 ; Meteor- 

 ology, 3 ; Miscellaneous, 9. 



The annual address, " On the History and Progress of Geology in 

 America," was delivered by the retiring president, Prof. James D. 

 Dana, of New Haven. The following officers were chosen for the en- 

 suing year, Prof. James Hall, of Albany, President ; Dr. B. A. Gould, 

 Jr., of Cambridge, General Secretary ; Dr. Elwyn, of Philadelphia, 

 Treasurer. The next meeting was appointed to be held in Albany, 

 N~. Y., on the third Wednesday of August, 1856. An invitation was 

 received from the Superintendent of the Military Academy at West 

 Point for the Association to meet at that locality ; this invitation was 

 accompanied with a permission from the "War Department to employ 

 the property of the Military Academy for the entertainment of the 

 Association. 



On motion, it was resolved that invitations to attend the future 

 meetings of the Association be extended to learned bodies and dis- 

 tinguished individuals in foreign lands. 



A committee was also appointed, consisting of Profs. Agassiz and 

 Dana, to memorialize the Legislature of New York on the subject of 

 the artificial propagation of fish in the waters of that State. 



Lieutenant Hunt, U. S. A., brought forward the subject of an Index 

 of papers on Mathematical and Physical Science. He claimed that 



