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Mass., for a table (appointment to be made by the 

 -presidents of >eetions F and G and the direct- 

 or of the laboratory). *1 IM : to Francis E. Phillips 

 for investigations on the properties of natura: 



to Louis A. Bauer for investigations on ter- 

 restrial magnetism in connection with the magnetic- 

 survey of Maryland, 50. 



The attendance at the meeting was 333 members : 

 112 new members were elected, and the death dur- 

 ing the year of 35 members was reported. The 

 Buffalo meeting was one of the smallest in the re- 

 cent history of the association, but it was of un- 

 usual interest and importance. 



Tin 1 Next Mfi'tinsr. The association decided 

 to meet in Detroit. Mich., on Aug. 9, 1897. This 

 early date was chosen, so that at the close of the 

 meeting such members as desired could attend the 

 meeting of the British Association, which would 

 then be in session in Toronto. Canada. 



The following officers were chosen : President. 

 Wolcott Gibbs. Newport. R. I. Vice-presidents of 

 sections : A. Wooster W. Beman. Ann Arbor. Mich. : 



B. Carl Barus. Providence. K. I.: C. William I'. 

 Mason. Troy. N. Y. : I). John Galbraith. Toronto. 

 Canada : K. Israel C. White. Morgantown. W. Va. : 

 F. <!. Brown Goode, Washington city; G. George 

 F. Atkinson. Ithaca. N. Y. : II. W J McGee. Wa>h- 

 ington city: I, Richard T. Colburn. Elizabeth, 

 N. J. Permanent Secretary. Frederick W. Put- 

 nam. Cambridge. Mass, (office. Salem) Mass. Gen- 

 eral Secretary. Asaph Hall. Jr.. Ann Arbor, Mich. 

 Secretary of the Council, David S. Kellicott, Colum- 

 bus, Ohio. Secretaries of the sections : A, James 

 McMahon. Ithaca. N. Y. ; B, Frederick Bedell. 

 Ithaca, N. Y. : C. Paul C. Freer, of Ann Arbor, 

 Mich. : D. John J. I- lather. Lafayette. Ind. : E. 



C. H. Smyth. Jr.. Clinton. N. Y. :' F. Char! 

 Nutting. Iowa City. Iowa: G. Frederick C. New- 

 combe. Ann Arbor, Mich. : II. Harlan I. Smith. 

 New York city; I. Archibald Blue. Toronto, Can- 

 ada. Treasurer. R. S. Woodward, New York city. 



British. The sixty-sixth annual meeting of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science 

 was held in Liverpool, Sept. 16-23. The officers of 

 the association were : President, Sir Joseph Lister. 

 Section Presidents: A. Mathematics and Plr 

 Joseph J. Thomson ; B. Chemistry. Ludwig Mood; 

 C, Geology. John E. Marr : D. Zoology. Edward B. 

 Poulton : E, Geography. Leonard Darwin : F. 

 nomic Science and Statistics. Leonard Courtney: 

 <-. Mechanical Science. Sir Douglas Fox: II. An- 

 thropology, Arthur J. Evans: K, Botany, Dunkin- 

 field H. Scott : I. Physiology. Walter J. Gaskell. 

 General Secretaries. Augustus G. Yernon Harcourt 

 and George Griffiths. General Treasurer, Arthur 

 W. Rucker. 



General Meeting-. The association began its 

 proceedings with a meeting of the general com- 

 mittee on Sept. 16, when the report of the council 

 was presented by A. G. Yernon Harcourt. and other 

 business was transacted. The meeting was presided 

 over by Sir Douglas Galton, the retiring president. 

 The business included the appointment of Sir Doug- 

 las Galton and Prof. Arthur W. Rucker as represen- 

 tatives in the celebration of the jubilee of the ap- 

 pointment of Lord Kelvin as Professor of Natural 

 Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. The fol- 

 lowing-named men of science were elected corre- 

 sponding members : Prof. Dr. Emil C. Hansen, 

 Copenhagen. Denmark : Prof. F. Paschen. Hanover. 

 Germany ; Prof. Ira Remsen, Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity. Baltimore. Md. : and Prof. C. Runge, Han- 

 over. Germany. Invitations to meet in Bristol and 

 in Glasgow in 1898 were received, also one from 

 Dover for 1899. which was the result of a proposal 

 by the French Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, as that organization would meet in 1898 or 



l s '.i!i in Boulogne, that the British Association 



should meet at >ome place on the opposite en.-; 

 that an interchange of visits between the two 

 ciations might be held. It was recommended that, 



SIR JOSEPH LISTER. 



on the occasion of the meeting of the association at 

 Toronto, the president, vice-presidents, and officers 

 of the American Association be invited to attend as 

 honorary members for the year, and, further, that 

 all fellows and members of the American Associa- 

 tion be admitted members of the British Associa- 

 tion on the same terms as old annual members 

 namely, on payment of 1, without the payment of 

 an admission fee. 



Yarious resolutions that had been referred to the 

 council were considered, and several new members 

 were chosen to fill vacancies in that body. The 

 treasurer reported that the receipts for i894-'95 

 were i"!.?7:!. and the payments t"5.714. The in- 

 vestment amount remained unchanged as follows : 

 7,587 consols and 3,600 India 3 per cents. On 

 motion of Sir Frederick Bramwell, seconded by Dr. 

 William Anderson, a vote of thanks was adopted 

 for the retiring president. Sir Douglas Galton. 



In the evening the association met in Philhar- 

 monic Hall to hear the inaugural address. Sir 

 Douglas Galton said, in presenting his successor : 

 " This duty has a more special significance than is 

 usual, because my election as president marked the 

 termination of my services as general secretary, and 

 therefore, in giving up my office to-night. I am ter- 

 minating services to the association which have ex- 

 tended over a period of more than a quarter of a 

 century. . . . I now beg to introduce to you a presi- 

 dent. Sir Joseph Lister, whose high scientific attain- 

 ments have been mainly directed to mitigate human 

 suffering and have revolutionized the surgeon's 

 art." 



Inaugural Address of the President. Sir 

 Joseph Lister, famous as the Father of Antiseptic 

 Surgery, and successor of Lord Kelvin as President 

 of the Royal Society of London, said : " I propose 

 on the present occasion to bring before you some 

 illustrations of the interdependence of science and 

 the healing art ; and the first that I will take is 

 perhaps the most astonishing of all results of 

 purely physical inquiry, the discovery of the Ront- 



