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ASSOCIATIONS FOR ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. (BRITISH.) 



Orton: "The Utilization of Surplus Labor," by 

 James H. Kellogg; " Economic Value of the Energy 

 of Neglected Children," by Laura O. Talbot ; " Instru- 

 ments of Valuation, or the Nature of Money Units," by 

 S. Dana Morton ; " Kufri-oniting Power of Trees," by 

 Jacob KIVM- ; ' k The Constitutionality of our Na- 

 tional Economic Policy," by William S. Hill; "Hy- 

 gienic Advantages of the Sterilization of Milk and its 

 Best M -y Mary II. Abel and Ellen H. Kich- 



; " The Ethics of Strikes," by William H. Hale; 

 and The Floods of the Mis.-issippi, aud how to pre- 

 vent them," by George W. Holley. 



Popular Features of the Proceedings. 



On the evening of Aug. 23 Rev. Horace C. Hovey 

 delivered a lecture on the Wyandotte, Marengo, 

 and Mammoth Caves, illustrated by projections 

 of original photographs. Similarly on Aug. 24 

 ( '. Leo Mees delivered a lecture on " Electricity." 

 Tin-so lectures were in compliment to the citizens 

 of Indianapolis. On Aug. 22 Sections A, B, C, 

 and D held their sessions in Terre Haute, where 

 they wriv the guests of the Science Club of that 

 city. The meeting-place was the Rose Polytech- 

 nic Institute, which was placed at their disposal 

 by its officers. A reception to the ladies in at- 

 tendance at the meeting was given by Mayor and 

 Mrs. Thomas L. Sullivan, at their residence, on 

 Aug 20; also in the evening a reception was 

 given at the Institution for the Blind. A gar- 

 den party at the residence of Alfred F. Potts, 

 secretary of the Local Committee, was tendered 

 on the evening of Aug. 21, at which Gen. Lew. 

 Wallace made an address of welcome. Saturday 

 of the meeting is always devoted to some excur- 

 sion, and on this occasion a trip was arranged to 

 cover the natural-gas territory of Indiana. A 

 special train was provided, which left Indianap- 

 olis on Aug. 23, and went north over the Lake 

 Erie and Western Railroad through Noblesville 

 to Kokomo, where the gas field was explored, 

 and a visit was made to the largest plate-glass 

 factory in the United States and other estab- 

 lishments where natural gas is applied to manu- 

 facturing. From Kokomo, the party was taken 

 to Marion, thence to Muncie, and from Muncie 

 to Anderson, where a magnificent display of 

 gas at night was given, embracing a beauti- 

 ful and fantastic feature by the introduction 

 of a gas main under the river. From Ander- 

 son the party returned to Indianapolis. Subse- 

 quent to the meeting excursions were made to 

 .Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and to Marengo 

 Cave, Indiana. 



Affiliated Organizations. The Society for 

 the Promotion of Agricultural Science and the 

 American Geological Society held meetings dur- 

 ing An-. IN and 19, prior to the regular session 

 of the association. The Entomological Club of 

 the association and the Botanical Club of the 

 iation convened as usual for their special 

 "l>.j'--i-. For the latter an excursion to South 

 Waveland was provided, whence they visited the 

 Shade, of Death." 



Final Sessions. At. the last meeting of the 

 general session business growing out of the work 

 accomplished during the week was transacted. 

 Among the important reports considered were 

 the following: One instructing the Committee 

 on Pored ry to bring the matter of preserving the 

 groves of sequoia trees of California to the spe- 

 cial attention of Congress and the Secretary of 

 the Interior; a resolution recognizing the serv- 



ices to science of Seiiors Barao de Girahy and 

 Jose Carlos de Carvalho of Brazil in causing the 

 transportation from the interior of Bahia to the 

 Museum in Rio de Janeiro of the famous Beri- 

 digo meteorite; progress from the Committee on 

 Reduction of the Tariff on Scientific Books 

 was reported ; it was resolved that the Secre- 

 tary of the Navy be requested to consider the 

 memorial recently presented by various observa- 

 tories relative to furnishing of time signals to 

 the Western Union Telegraph Company by the 

 Naval Observatory for commercial purposes. The 

 sum of $250 was appropriated from the Research 

 fund for the continuation of the investigation of 

 the velocity of light in the magnetic field. A reso- 

 lution empowering the permanent secretary to 

 extend invitations to the governments of Mexico, 

 and Central and South America to send dele- 

 gates from the scientific societies of those coun- 

 tries to the meeting at Washington was adopted. 

 The secretary reported 364 to be the total 

 number of members registered, and that 259 

 papers were presented before the association at 

 the meeting. 



Next Meeting". The meeting in 1891 will be 

 held in Washington, D. C., during August. The 

 following officers were chosen : 



President, Albert B. Prescott, Ann Arbor, 

 Mich. Vice-Presidents : A, Edward W. Hyde, 

 Cincinnati, Ohio ; B, Francis E. Nipher, St. 

 Louis, Mo.; C, Robert C. Kedzie, Agricultural 

 College, Mich.; D, Thomas Gray, Terre Haute, 

 Ind. ; E, John J. Stevenson, New York city ; F, 

 John M. Coulter, Crawfordsville, Ind. ; H, Joseph 

 Jastrow, Madison, Wis. ; I, Edmund J. James, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. Permanent Secretary, Fred- 

 erick W. Putnam, Cambridge, Mass. General 

 Secretary, Harvey W. Wiley, Washington, D. C. 

 Secretary of the Council, Amos W. Butler, 

 Brookville, Ind. Auditors, Henry Wheatland, 

 Salem, Mass. ; Thomas Meehan, Germantown, 

 Pa. Secretaries of sections : A, E. D. Preston, 

 Washington, D. C. ; B, Alexander Macfarlaiie, 

 Austin, Tex. ; C, Thomas H. Norton, Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio; D, William Kent, New York; E, 

 W J McGee, Washington, D. C. ; F, Albert J. 

 Cook, Agricultural College, Mich. ; H, William 

 H. Holmes, Washington, D. C. ; I, Bernhard.E. 

 Fernow, Washington, D. C. Treasurer, William 

 Lilly, Mauch Chunk, Pa. Besides which 89 

 fellows were elected and James Hall, one of the 

 founders of the American Association of Geolo- 

 gists and Naturalists and State Geologist of 

 New York, was elected to the grade of honorary 

 fellowship for life. 



British. The sixtieth annual meeting of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence was held in Leeds. Its sessions began on 

 Sept. 3, and continued for one week. The offi- 

 cers were : Sir Frederick A. Abel, President of 

 the Association. Section Presidents : A, Mathe- 

 matical and Physical Science, J. W. L. Glaish- 

 er; B, Chemical'Science, Thomas E. Thorpe ; C, 

 Geology, A. H. Green; D, Biology, A. Milnes 

 Marshall ; E, Geography, Lieut.-Col. Sir R. 

 Lambert Playfair ; F, Economic Science and 

 Statistics, Alfred Marshall ; G, Mechanical Sci- 

 ence, Capt. Andrew Noble; H, Anthropology, 

 John Evans. A. W. Williamson, General Treas- 

 urer; and Sir Douglas Galton and A. Vernon 

 Harcourt, General Secretaries. 



