ASSOCIATIONS FOR TI1K ADVANCKMKNT OF SCIKXCK. .AMI.HI. 



this company were nut Imn/cil to pro- 



tion of suitable building* *l the 



:iion ami !< Mi|irrinti'ii<l the exhibit of the 



Slate therein, Iteing a>-i>ted liy a board of lady 



manager*. The company is empowered to begin 



ions whene\er |10,000 of its stock ha- 



been Mib-cnlx-d. 



Election. To 1111 the vacancy on the Sn- 

 jirenie Court bench caused by the death of ,Ius- 

 M. II. Sandels in November, 1880, Gov. 

 i i tied n call late in l>ecemlier for ii special 



election to I it- held on .Ian. L'ti following. The 

 Deinocrals. in State convention at Little Rock, 

 on .Ian. S, nominated W. NV. Mansfield after tak- 

 ing over thirty ballots, his competitors being 

 M. T. Sander.. K. H. Powell, B. T. Du Val, and 

 II. (i. I'.unn. No other party ventured to nom- 

 inate an opposition candidate. The election, 

 therefore, evoked no popular interest, only 25,- 

 111 votes being cast, of which Mansfield re- 

 ceived ^.d.-.T. 



ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE ADYANCE- 

 MEXT OF SCIENCE.. American. The for- 

 tieth meet i HIT of the American Association was 

 held in Washington, D. C., beginning on Aug. 

 19 and ending on Aug. 25, 1891. The officers 

 of the meeting were : President, Albert B. Pres- 

 <-ott. Ann Arbor, Mich. Vice-presidents of sec- 

 tions : A, Edward W. Hyde, of Cincinnati, Ohio ; 

 B, Francis E. Nipher, of St. Louis, Mo. ; C. Rob- 

 ert C. Kedzie, of Agricultural College, Mich. : 

 D, Thomas Gray, of Terre Haute, Ind. ; E, John 

 J. Stevenson, of New York ; F, John M. Coulter, 

 of Bloomington, Ind. ; II, Joseph Jastrow, of 

 Madison. Wis. : I. Kdmnnd J. James, of Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. Permanent Secretary, Frederick 

 W. Putnam, of Cambridge, Mass. General Sec- 

 retary, Harvey W. Wiley, of Washington, D. C. 

 Secretary of the Council. Amos W. Butler, of 

 Brookville, Ind. Secretaries of the sections : A, 

 Frank H. Bigelow, of Washington, D. C. ; B, 

 Alexander MacFarlane, of Austin, Texas ; C, 

 Thomas H. Norton, of Cincinnati, Ohio; D, Will- 

 iam Kent, of New York^ity: E, W J McGee, 

 of Washington, D. C.; F, Albert J. Cook, of 

 Agricultural College, Mich. ; H, William H. 

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

 Fernow, of Washington, D. C. Treasurer, Will- 

 iam Lilly, of Mauch Chunk, Pa. 



Opening Proceedings. On Nov. 13, 1890, 

 15:! members had been elected, and on April 23, 

 1891, 19 additional names were passed on. Like- 

 wise, at a meeting of the council held on Aug. 

 17. 99 members were added to the list, and again, 

 at a council meeting held on Aug. 1 s . !' more 

 names were added, winging the total member- 

 ship up to 2.215. These preliminary meetings 

 of the council were held in order to pass on the 

 various papers to he presented before the sec- 

 tions, and in other ways to arrange the pro- 

 gramme for the week. The opening exercises 

 were held in the law-lecture room of Columbian 

 University, and the gathered scientists were 

 called to order on the morning of Aug. 19 by 

 President Goodale. who then introduced Presi- 

 dent Prescott. The new presiding officer briefly 

 acknowledged the high honor conferred on him. 

 and then presented Edwin Willits, the assistant 

 Secretary of Agriculture, who made welcome 

 the association to Washington with an eloquent 

 address. The association was then more specially 

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welcomed to flit-Columbian I'niver-ily by its pres- 

 ident, .lames C. Welling. Iloth of the.,- addresses 

 re-ponded to liy 



Prescott. The permanent secretary then made 



ALBERT B. PRESCOTT. 



several formal announcements, and presented his 

 financial statement for the year ending Aug. 1, 

 showing the total receipts to have been $7,443.- 

 08. There was a balance left, after deducting 

 expenditures of the year, of $1,040.92. The bal- 

 ance of the Research fund is $5,254.27. Of this 

 the association has the right to appropriate 

 the interest to any current work of research. 

 The general secretary announced that the coun- 

 cil recommended that the sections meet Wed- 

 nesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, from 

 10 to 12 A. M. and from 2 to 5 p. M. Also, that 

 the council recommended that the amendment 

 to the constitution proposed last year that no 

 one who is secretary of a section be eligible to 

 the office of vice-president until one year after 

 his term of office as secretary do not pass. The 

 report was adopted. The council reported ad- 

 versely on three other proposed amendments, 

 respectively : that no person should be eligible to 

 election to fellowship at the same meeting at 

 which he is elected a member ; that no fellow 

 should be eligible to election to council until one 

 year after he has qualified ; and that the annual 

 dues be $5, instead of $3. This action was ap- 



E roved of by the association. The council reported 

 ivorably on an amendment providing for " for- 

 eign associates," only it struck out the words 

 "foreign associates" and substituted the term 

 " corresponding members." The amendment pro- 

 vides for fifty such members, to be designated by 

 the council from scientists not residing in Amer- 

 ica. After some discussion the proposed amend- 

 ment as reported by the council was adopted. 



An invitation from the Southern Interstate 

 Immigration Bureau to attend the Southern K\- 

 position at Raleigh, N. C., in October, was read. 

 Address of the Retiring President. Dr. 

 (J eorge L. Goodale's subject was "The Possi- 

 bilities of Economic Botany," and he illustrated 

 it by examples of the useful plants which man- 

 kind may nope to employ in the near future. 

 Speculation is rife as to the coming man ; there- 



