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ASSOCIATIONS FOR ADVANCEMENT OP SOIKXCK. (AMERICAN.) 



should be reasonably near some large commercial 

 center, and the purchase of this land, should be 

 intrusted to the most capable and honest members 

 of the association. It should be carefully surveyed 

 and divided into a few small lots centrally located 

 for the necessary mechanics and merchants, but. 

 mainly into areas of 1 to 10 acres for horticulture. 

 Ample reservations of the best sites should be made 

 for a schoolhouse, town hall, and public park. 

 The streets should be embowered with shade trees, 

 and every owner of a lot or garden should be en- 

 couraged to beautify and adorn it." 



The following-named papers were read and dis- 

 cussed before the section : " The Monetary Stand- 

 ard," by William H. Hale; "The Competition of 

 the Sexes and its Results," by Lawrence Irwell ; 

 " Fashion A Study," by S. Edward Warren ; ' Citi- 

 zenship : Its Privileges and Duties," " Practical 

 Studies in Horticulture, Art, and Music," and " Re- 

 lics of Ancient Barbarism," by Stillman F. Knee- 

 land ; " Suicide Legislation," by W. Lane O'Neill ; 

 " An Inheritance for the Waifs." by C. F. Taylor ; 

 " The Proposed Sociological Institution," by James 

 A. Skilton ; " Crime against Labor " and " What is 

 True Money I " by Edward Atkinson ; " The Value of 

 Social Settlement " and " The Wages Fund Theory," 

 by Aaron B. Keeler: "Better Distribution of Fore- 

 casts," by John A. Miller; and " The Tin Plate Ex- 

 periment," by A. P. Winston. 



Popular Features of the Proceedings. Sub- 

 sequent to the delivery of the presidential address 

 on the evening of Aug. 24 an informal reception 

 was held in the rooms of the Society of Natural 

 Sciences in the library building. On the evening 

 of Aug. 25, the usual reception by the Ladies' Re- 

 ception Committee was given in the rooms of the 

 Twentieth Century Club. Two public lectures 

 complimentary to the citizens of Buffalo were 

 given, the first on " Niagara as a Timepiece," with 

 lantern illustrations, on Aug. 26, by John W. Spen- 

 cer, in the High-School chapel, and the second on 

 " The Results of Cave Explorations in the United 

 States, and their Bearing on the Antiquity of Man,'' 

 with lantern illustrations, in the same place, by 

 Henry C. Mercer and Prof. Edward D. Cope. The 

 grand excursion of the session was a general com- 

 plimentary trip for the association to Niagara Falls, 

 on Saturday, Aug. 29. Special excursions were 

 provided as follows : The geologists of Section " E " 

 were entertained at the Idlewood Club, at the 

 mouth of Eighteen Mile Creek, a noted fossil-col- 

 lecting ground, on Aug. 27. On Aug. 28 the bot- 

 anists were taken 10 miles up the Canadian lake 

 shore to Point Abino, where the section was the 

 guests of the Point Abino Association. Under the 

 charge of Ottomar Reinecke, the entomologists 

 visited Ridgeway, Ontario, on Aug. 26. The Buf- 

 falo Engineers' Society took all visiting engineers 

 to Niagara Falls on Aug. 22, the day the chemists 

 also visited the falls. 



Affiliated Organizations. Various other sci- 

 entific associations, taking advantage of the gather- 

 ing of so many members at the meeting of the 

 American Association, have adopted the practice in 

 recent years of holding meetings at the same place, 

 and contemporaneous with the American Associa- 

 tion, but at such hours as not to interfere with the 

 regular sessions of the larger body. The Society 

 for the Promotion of Agricultural "Science met in 

 the library building on Aug. 21 and 22. Its presi- 

 dent was William It. Lazenby, of Columbus, Ohio, 

 and its secretary was Charle's S. Plumb, of Lafay- 

 ette, Ind. The Botanical Society of America held 

 meetings in the Buffalo High School on Aug. 21 and 

 22, under the presidency of John M. Coultar, of 

 Chicago, III., and with Charles R. Barnes, of Madi- 

 son, Wis., as secretary. Likewise on Aug. 21 and 



22 the American Chemical Society met, with 

 Charles B. Dudley, of Altoona, Pa., as president, 

 and Albert C. Hale, of Brooklyn, as secretary. On 

 the same dates the Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists convened, with Charles H. Fernald as 

 president, and Charles L. Marlatt, of Washington, 

 D. C., as secretary. The Geological Society of 

 America held its eighth summer meeting, on Aug. 

 22, with Joseph Le Conte, of Berkeley, Cal., as presi- 

 dent, and Herman L. Fairchild, of Rochester, N. Y., 

 as secretary. During the six days preceding (Aug. 

 17 to 22) excursions were conducted under the aus- 

 pices of the Geological Society throughout the terri- 

 tory adjacent to Buffalo. Parties were organized 

 in the departments of stratigraphy, palaeontology, 

 petrography, economic geology, and Pleistocene 

 geology. The American Mathematical Society 

 held meetings on Aug. 31 to Sept. 1. The presi- 

 dent was Dr. George W. Hill, of West Nyack, N. .1. ; 

 its secretary was F. N. Cole, of New York city. 

 The Society for the Promotion of Engineering Edu- 

 cation met in the rooms of the Engineers' Society 

 of Western New York, on Aug. 21 and 22, with 

 .Mansfield Merriman, of South Bethlehem, Pa., as 

 president, and C. Frank Allen, of Boston, Mass., as 

 treasurer. As usual, during the meeting regular 

 sessions of the Botanical Club, with Frederick V. 

 Coville, of Washington city, as president, and John 

 F. Cowell, of Buffalo, N. Y., as secretary, were held. 

 Final Sessions. The final sessions of the asso- 

 ciation were held on Aug. 28, at which the officers 

 for the ensuing year were elected. Four foreign as- 

 sociates were elected : Victor Gutzu, of Bucharest, 

 Roumania, who was sent by his Government to in- 

 vestigate petroleum products ; Seiryo Mine, of 

 Japan, who was sent by his Government to investi- 



fate long-distance transmission of electrical power ; 

 . liss Mary Foster, member of the Geological Society 

 of London ; and J. Bishop Tingle, of Aberdeen, 

 Scotland. Eighty-three members, in consideration 

 of their contributions to science, were advanced to 

 the grade of fellows. The Committee on Standards 

 of Measurements reported upon "the desirability 

 of further legislation, looking to the early adoption 

 of the metric system." A communication from the 

 Joint Commission of the Scientific Societies of Wash- 

 ington regarding the creation of the office of direc- 

 tor in chief of the scientific divisions of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture was referred to a 

 committee which made a report that was adopted 

 unanimously, approving the proposition to make 

 such an office. A communication on the proposed 

 vivisection law was referred to a committee which 

 presented a report which was unanimously adopted, 

 in which the association presented to the Congress 

 of the United States its protest against legislation 

 on the subject of vivisection. A communication 

 asking that some steps be taken by the association 

 to secure the study of the white race in America 

 was referred to Section II, with a request that a 

 committee be nominated to consider the matter. 

 The section reported the following names, and the 

 committee was so constituted : Daniel G. Brinton, 

 J. McK. Cattell, W. W. Newell, W J McGee, and 

 Franz Boas. At the request of the National Edu- 

 cational Association a committee was appointed to 

 co-operate with committees from that body, with a 

 view to unifying the requirements in science in sec- 

 ondary schools. The committee named consists of 

 Ralph S. Tarr, Henry S. Carhart, Alpheus S. Pack- 

 ard, Charles F. Mabery, and Charles E. Bessey. 

 On recommendation of Section F. Alpheus S. Pack- 

 ard was appointed a member of the American Ad- 

 visory Board on Zoological Names. 



The Committee on Grants recommended the fol- 

 lowing which were authorized by the council : To 

 the Marine Biological Laboratory, Wood's Holl, 



