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Washing"", in the parlor ,,f the Arlington, at. 

 which m;merou> addresses were made, including 

 one I y Secretary Fi>ler. A musical eiltcrtain- 



.11 the private grounds of tlir Kxecut ive 

 II. at wliicli the United State- .Marine Hand 



:. \\a- irixen in tin' a-vMiciation, by direction 



of tin- I'roident. on Aug. 'JO. A lecture ( pli- 



uieiilary to t lie < it i/eiis cif Washington was de- 



i.'ou the evening of Aug. 21, in the United 

 National Museum, by Dr. John M. Macfar- 

 lane. on Illustrations of Heredity in Plant 

 Hyl>rid>," subsequent, to which the museum was 

 thrown open to the members for inspection of 

 the collections. On Aug. 24 an excursion to 

 Baltimore, by special train, was provided for. 

 I'pon arrival at Locust Point the steamer " La- 

 trobe " met the party and proceeded across the 

 bay to the Maryland Steel Company's works 

 at Sparrow's Point, where the blast furnaces, 

 BeMemer steel converter, and steel rolling mills 

 were inspected. After luncheon on the steam- 

 er, a visit was paid to the Baltimore Sugar Re- 

 finery. The steamer then returned to the city, 

 and t'lie party visited the Johns Hopkins Hospital 

 and the Johns Hopkins University. A compli-' 

 mentary excursion to Mount Vernon was tendered 

 on Aug. 25 to the association by the scientific 

 societies of Washington. Three general ex- 

 cursions were arranged for, as follow: (1) To 

 Harper's Ferry and Luray, visiting the famous 

 caverns; (2) to Atlantic City, visiting the light- 

 house and life-saving station ; and (3) to Old 

 Point Comfort, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach, 

 visiting Fort Monroe, Hampton, the Soldiers' 

 Home, Normal School, and other features. 

 Throughout the meeting, through the courtesy 

 of the department chiefs, the various Govern- 

 ment bureaus were opened to the members of 

 the association, and on the afternoon and even- 

 ing of Aug. 24 the Corcoran Gallery was opened 

 to the visiting scientists. 



Affiliated Organizations. Prior to the 

 meeting of the association the American Micro- 

 scopical Society was convened on Aug. 11 and 



12. The Association of American Agricultural 

 Colleges and Experiment Stations held daily ses- 

 sions on Aug. 13, 14, and 15. Under the terms 

 of the trust which endows in perpetuity the 

 a u r ri cultural work of Lawes and Gilbert at Roth- 

 amsted, England, a representative of this place 

 is to visit America every three years as an ex- 

 ponent of its work. The first of these visits 

 occurred during the Washington meeting, and 

 Robert Warrington, F. C. S., the chemist at Roth- 

 amsted, was the representative. The Association 

 of Official Agricultural Chemists met on Aug. 



13, and held sessions for two days. The Societv 

 for the Promotion of Agricultural Science held 

 its meetings on Aug. 17 and 18. A conference 

 -of American chemists, under the auspices of the 

 American Chemical Society and the Washington 

 Chemical Society, met on Aug. 17 and 18. The 

 Association of Economic Entomologists convened 

 on Aug. 18 and 19. J. A. Lintner, of Albany, 

 N. Y., was chosen president of this body. The 

 Botanical Club of the association held regular 

 meetings on Aug. 20, 21, and 22. Prior to the 

 regular meetings of the association William M. 

 Canby was its president. Similarly the Entomo- 

 logical Club of the association met daily during 

 the meeting. 



After the meeting of the association the Geo- 

 logical Society of America held il> MIIIIIIHT nn-ri- 

 ing, on Au^. 24 and 2~> ; and, linally, the Inter- 

 national < i ingress of (JeologiMs began its meet. 

 ings on Aug. 2<i, and continued them with daily 

 sessions until Sept. 1. 



Final Sessions. The final general meeting 

 \va~ hold on the evening of Aug. 25, at which 

 time the list of officers given below was elected, 

 and the place of the next meeting decided on. 

 A proposition to increase the research funds was 

 advocated by John A. Brashear, who fixed t he 

 limit at $100,(XX), and a commit Lee was appointed, 

 of which he was made chairman. 



The Committee on Forestry reported that its 

 efforts had, in part, at least, caused a change in 

 the laws regulating public lands, which author- 

 izes the President to use his discretion in the 

 disposal of public timber lands. The report 

 showed that the American Forestry Association 

 had prepared a memorial, in which reservations, 

 comprising several million acres will be asked 

 in Minnesota, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, New 

 Mexico, and California, and in the enlarged 

 boundaries of the Yellowstone Park. The com- 

 mittee was continued to enable it to carry on 

 the work of securing the enactment of such 

 laws as will protect and provide for the adminis- 

 tration of the lands thus reserved. Action was 

 also- taken upon a recommendation from the sec- 

 tion on biology, favoring the petitioning of Con- 

 gress for the establishing in the District of 

 Columbia of an arboretum, under the direction 

 of the Department of Agriculture. A resolution 

 was also adopted calling the attention of the 

 Secretary of Agriculture to the advisability of 

 utilizing the Weather Bureau, the various agri- 

 cultural experiment stations, and institutions of 

 a similar character, for the purpose of forming a 

 service of water statistics and making a careful 

 survey of the condition of water supplies, which 

 may serve as a basis for the application of proper 

 principles of water management. Agreeably to 

 a communication from the Australasian Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, a committee 

 was appointed to form part of an international 

 committee to make a uniform system of biological 

 nomenclature, that committee being Simon H. 

 Gage. Charles T. Minot, John M. Coulter, Theo- 

 dore Gill, and George L. Goodale. The meeting 

 as a whole was a most successful one ; 291 papers 

 were read before the sections, against 259 for last 

 year. There were 653 members in attendance, in 

 comparison with 364 last year ; and subsequent 

 to Aug. 18, 91 new names were added to the list, 

 making a total of 871 members elected since the 

 meeting last year. 



Next Meeting. In 1892 the association will 

 meet in Rochester, N. Y., and the time appointed 

 is the third Wednesday in August. The follow- 

 ing officers were chosen : President, Joseph Le 

 Conte, Berkelev, Cal. Vice-Presidents : A, John 

 R. Eastman, Washington, D. C. ; B, Benjamin 

 F. Thomas, Columbus, Ohio ; C, Alfred Springer. 

 Cincinnati, Ohio ; I), John B. Johnson, St. Louis, 

 Mo. ; E, Henry S. Williams, Ithaca, N. Y. ; F, 

 Simon F. Gage, Ithaca, N. Y. ; H, William H. 

 Holmes, Washington, D. C. ; I, S. Dana Horton. 

 I'omeroy, Ohio. Permanent Secretary. Frederick 

 W. Putnam, Cambridge, Mass. General Secre- 

 tary, Amos W. Putnam, Brookville, Ind. Secre- 



