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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



William B. Kogees, President A. A. A. S., 

 second Buffalo meeting, 1876. 



Massachusetts (three), Connecticut, New York (eight), Pennsyl- 

 vania, District of Columbia, Ohio (two), Indiana (two), Illinois, 

 Michigan (two), Wisconsin, 

 Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Ten- 

 nessee, and Canada (two). The 

 list of past presidents includes, 

 besides those previously men- 

 tioned, John S. Newberry, Ben- 

 jamin A. Gould, John W. Fos- 

 ter, T. Sterry Hunt, Asa Gray, 

 J, Lawrence Smith, Joseph 

 Lovering, John L. Le Conte, 

 Julius E. Hilgard, Simon New- 

 comb, Othniel C. Marsh, George 



F. Barker, Lewis H. Morgan, 

 George J. Brush, J. William 

 Dawson, Charles A. Young, 

 John P. Leslie, Huber A. New- 

 ton, Samuel P. Langley, John 

 W. Powell, Thomas C. Men- 

 denhall, George L. Goodale, 



Albert B. Prescott, Joseph Le Conte, William Harkness, Daniel 



G. Brinton, and Edward W. Morley. 



The president elect, Ed- 

 ward Drinker Cope, was born 

 Kfe,., of Quaker ancestry at Phila- 



delphia, July 28, 1840. He 

 was educated at the West- 

 town Academy and the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, and 

 afterward studied compara- 

 tive anatomy in the Academy 

 of Sciences, Philadelphia, and 

 the Smithsonian Institution 

 at Washington, and later in 

 Europe. He was Professor of 

 Natural Sciences at Haver- 

 ford College from 1864 till 

 1807, resigning in the latter 

 year because of ill health. 

 / Later he was paleontologist 



of the United States Geologi- 

 cal Survey, serving first in 

 the Territories west of the one 



Ei.wAun S. Mouse, President A. A. A. S., third hundredth meridian. His 



Butfaio meeting, 1886. discoveries Were numerous 



