34 The Period from 1891 to 1900 



at Springfield, Mass., in August-September, 1895, delivered an address on 

 "The Aims of Anthropology." (Vol. 44, pp. 1-17. ) 



Edward W. Morley (chemistry), retiring president at the meeting held 

 at Buffalo, New York, in August, 1896, delivered an address on "A Com- 

 pleted Chapter in the History of the Atomic Theory." (Vol. 45, pp. 1-22.) 



Theodore Gill (zoology), successor, as senior vice president, to Edward 

 D. Cope, president, who died on April 12, 1897, by action of the Council 

 "was requested to prepare an address to take the place of the one which 

 would have been delivered by President Cope had his life been spared," 

 chose for the subject of his retiring address at the meeting held at Detroit, 

 Michigan, in August, 1897, "Edward Drinker Cope, Naturalist — A Chapter 

 in the History of Science." ( Vol. 46, pp. 1-30.) 



Walcott Gibbs (chemistry), retiring president at the meeting held at 

 Poston, Mass., in August, 1898, did not announce a formal title for his ad- 

 dress but spoke on "some theoretical points connected" with his work. (Vol. 

 47. PP- i -16.) 



Erederic Ward Putnam (anthropology), retiring president at the meet- 

 ing held at Columbus, Ohio, in August. 1899. in his address spoke on "A 

 Problem in American Anthropology.'" ( Vol. 48. pp. 1-17.) 



Grove Karl Gilbert (geology), successor to Edward Urton who died Oc- 

 tober 16, 1899, chose for the subject of his address as retiring president at 

 the meeting held in Xew York, X. Y., in June, 1900, ''Rhythms and Geo- 

 logic Time." ( Vol. 49, pp. 1 -[9.) 



Addressesof Vice Presidents 



The Washington Meeting, August, 1891. 1 Vol. 40) 



Mathematics and Astronomy. E. W. Hyde : "The Evolution of Algebra." 



Physics. Erancis E. Xipher : "The Ether." 



Chemistry. R. C. Kedzie : "Alchemy." 



Mechanical Science and Engineering. Thomas Gray: "Problems in Me- 

 chanical Science." 



Geology and Geography. John J. Stevenson: "The Chemung and Cats- 

 kill (Upper Devonian) on the Eastern Side of the Appalachian Pasin." 



Biology. John M. Coulter: "The Future of Systematic Botany." 



Anthropology. Joseph Jastrow : "The Natural History of Analog}." 



Economic Science and Statistics. Edmund J. James: "The Farmer and 

 Taxation." 



The Rochester Meeting, August, iSgj. (Vol. ji) 



Mathematics and Astronomy. J. R. Eastman: "The Neglected Field of 

 Fundamental Astronomy." 



