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:ni.| their hear'mir ujxm tho Question of Palaeolithic 

 red Pipettone Quany of MimiiM>t;i. 



and the Ancient Copper Mines of Lake Superior," 

 anil "On the So cullfil ralii'olithic Implements of the 

 I'pl't'r Mi.-sissippi," by William H. Holmes; "Canon 

 ami Mesa limits in Utah " and "Singular Coj.per Im- 

 plements and Ornaments from tin- llopewell (iroiip, 

 unts , < >hio," by Warren K. Moorehcad ; " Pro- 

 las.-iticatioii ami International Nomenclature 

 of the Anthropological Sciences" and " Anvil-shaped 

 Stones from Pennsylvania,' 1 by Daniel (J. Brinton ; 

 Prehistoric Karl h works of Henry County, Ind.," by 

 T. P.. Redding; "A Definition of Anthropology," by 

 Otis T. M asi >n ; " Pueblo Myth and Ceremonial 

 Dances," by Frank H. Cunning; "Demonstration of 

 a recently Discovered Cerebral Porta," by Charles P. 

 Hart ; "Kuins of Tiahuanaco," by A. E. Douglas; 

 " Point* concerning Fort Ancient." by Selden S. Sco- 

 villn ; and "Exhibition of a Smite of Prehistoric 

 Pottery from a Mound on the Illinois River, between 

 IVoria and Havana," by John Kost 



I. Economic Science and Statistics. The vice- 

 president elected to preside over this section at 

 the Washington meeting was S. Dana Horton, 

 but owing to his absence in Europe, Prof. Lester 

 F. Ward, of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey, Washington, D. C., was nominated by the 

 council to the vacancy, and elected in general 

 session. His own place as secretary of the sec- 

 tion was filled by the election of Henry Farqu- 

 har, of Washington, D. C., to that office. Prof. 

 Wurd delivered an address on " The Psychologic 

 Basis of Social Economics," in which he took 

 opposite views to the generally accepted beliefs 

 of those of the Adam Smith school. 



The following-named papers were read before 

 the section : 



" The Labor Problem in America," by Robert II. 

 Craft; " Some Statistics of the Salvation Army," by 

 Charles W. Smiley ; " Economic Conditions antago- 

 nistic to a Conservative Forest Policy, ' by Bernhard 

 E. Fernow ; " Outline Plan for a Governmental De- 

 partment of Beneficence," by Richard T. Colburn ; 

 'Competition and Combination in Nature" and 

 " Movement of Duties and Prices in the United States 

 since 1889," by Henry Farquhar ; and " The Standard 

 of Deferred Payments," by Edward A. Ross. 



Popular Features of the Proceedings. 



On the evening of Aug. 18 a formal reception 

 was tendered to the association by the Woman's 

 Reception Committee of the General Local Com- 

 mittee, in the Powers Art Gallery. A public 

 address complimentary to the citizens of Koch- 

 ester, on " Hypnotism and its Antecedents," 

 was delivered on the evening of Aug. 19, by 

 Prof. Joseph Jastrow, of the University of Wis- 

 consin, and on the evening of Aug. 22 a similar 

 complimentary address was delivered by Grove 

 K. Gilbert, of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey, on "Coon Butte and the Theories of its 

 Origin." For Saturday, Aug. 20, four excursions 

 were provided for the members of the association 

 by the local committee. 



Affiliated Organizations. Throughout the 

 meeting of the association the Entomological 

 Club met under the presidency of E. A. Schwarz, 

 and the Botatiical Club likewise held regular 

 meetings under the presidency of Henry II. 

 Rusby. who temporarily succeeded Volney M. 

 Spaulding. Besides the foregoing, the American 

 Microscopical Society hold sessions on Aug. 9, 10, 

 11, and 12. Of this body, M. E. Sewall, of Chi- 

 airo. 111., was president, and W. H. Seaman, of 

 Washington, D. C., was secretary. The Geo- 



logical Society of America held its fourth annual 

 meetingon Aug. 15 and 16. with (irovc K. Gillx-rt 

 as president, and Herman L. Fairchild a- 

 tary. On Aug. l~> and lf> the Society for the 

 Promotion of Agricultural Science held meet- 

 ings, with Isaac P. Roberts ILS president, and 

 Leland O. Howard as secretary. The Associa- 

 tion of Economic Entomologists held tlieir meet- 

 ing on Aug. 15 and 10, with J. A. Lintner as 

 president, and F. M. Webster as secretary. On 

 Aug. 16 and 17 the American Chemical Society 

 held its fifth general meeting, with vice-presi- 

 dent Breneman as its presiding officer, and Du- 

 rand Woodman aj. secretary. Finally, the Asso- 

 ciation of State Weather Services came into ex- 

 istence, holding meetings on Aug. 15 and 16, 

 under the presidency of II. II. C. Dunwoody, and 

 with R. E. Kerkam as secretary. 



Final Sessions. The final general meeting 

 was held on the evening of Aug. 23, when the 

 officers named below were elected and the place 

 of the next meeting decided upon. With regard 

 to the corporation of the World's Fair Auxiliary 

 Council, it was decided that a committee of five 

 be appointed to act with the corresponding com- 

 mittee of the World's Congress of the Columbian 

 Exposition. The committee appointed at the 

 Washington meeting last year to consider and 

 report upon a proposed investigation of possible 

 secular changes of terrestrial latitudes, submitted 

 a report which recommended the appointment 

 of a committee to confer with the International 

 Geodetic Association for the purpose of securing 

 simultaneous latitude determinations by similar 

 methods upon the same parallel of latitude in 

 Europe and America. The report further recom- 

 mended that this committee be instructed to 

 secure if possible a redetermination of the lati- 

 tudes of certain named points. In view of the 

 high prices of scientific instruments and books 

 occasioned by the tariff levied upon them, it was 

 voted to petition Congress to repeal or at least 

 reduce these taxes. Also, it was decided to 

 change the time of meeting, so that the associa- 

 tion might begin its work on Monday instead of 

 Tuesday. The meeting was a fairly successful 

 one. More than 200 papers were read, and the 

 registry showed 456 persons in attendance at the 

 sessions. Besides the 102 members elected prior 

 to the opening meeting, there were subsequently 

 73 additional names favorably acted on, making 

 a total of 175 new members. The membership 

 of the association on July 8 showed a total of 

 2,055 persons which, with the 175 elected at the 

 Rochester meeting, brings the grand total num- 

 ber of names up to 2,230. 



Next Meeting. In 1893 the association will 

 meet in Madison, Wis., in August. The follow- 

 ing officers were chosen : President, William 

 Harkness, Washington, D. C. Vice-presidents : 

 A, C. L. Doolittle, South Bethlehem. Pa.: B, 

 Edward L. Nichols, Ithaca, N. Y. : C, Edward 

 Hart, Easton, Pa. ; D, S. W. Robinson, Columbus, 

 Ohio : E. Charles D. Wolcott, Washington, D. C. ; 

 F, Henry F. Osborn, New York Cityj O, Charles 

 E. Bessey, Lincoln, Neb.; II. J. 'Owen Dor- 

 sey, Taco'ma Park, D. C. : I, Williarc H. Brauner, 

 Palo Alto, Cal. Permanent Secretary. Frederick 

 W. Putnam, Cambridge, Mass. General Sec- 

 retary. Thomas H. Norton, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 Secretary of the Council, Herman L. Fairchild, 



