ASSOCIATIONS 



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interest \\crc made l>y separate sections 

 to points whore characteristic iiatiirul features 

 OOOid In- seen. These were usually made under 

 the guidance of some scientist specially familiar 

 witli the locality. 



Afliliiitril Organizations. The American 

 Miero-copical Society held meetings on Aug. 14, 

 1 Hi. Its officers were John D. Cox, of 

 Cincinnati, Ohio, president, and William II. Sea- 

 man, of Washington, D. 0.. secretary. The fifth 

 summer meeting of the Geological Society of 

 America was held on Aug. 15 and 16, ana its 

 president was Sir J. William Dawson, of Mont- 

 real, Canada, and its secretary Herman L. Fair- 

 child, of Rochester, N. Y. On the same days 

 met also the Society for the Promotion of Agri- 

 cult ural Science, with Isaac P. Roberts, of Ithaca, 

 N. Y ., as president, and Leland 0. Howard, of 

 Washington, I). C., as secretary ; the Association 

 of Economic Entomologists, with S. A. Forbes, of 

 Champaign, 111., as president, and Harrison Gar- 

 man, of Lexington, Ky., as secretary ; and the 

 Association of State Weather Services, with 

 Henry II. C. Dunwoody as president, and Robert 

 E. Kerkham as secretary. Finally, subsequent 

 to the meeting of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, there was held an 

 International Botanical Congress during three 

 days beginning Aug. 23, at which the Interna- 

 tional Standing Commission on Nomenclature 

 reported, which was then discussed by the con- 

 gress. Meetings of the Botanical Club of the 

 association, of which William P. Wilson, of Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., was president, and Thomas H. Mc- 

 Bride, of Iowa City, secretary, were announced 

 daily from 9 to 10 A. M., from Aug. 18. Also, 

 the Entomological Club announced meetings 

 during the intervals of Section F. Its officers 

 were C. J. S. Bethune, of Port Hope, Ontario, 

 president, and Charles L. Marlatt, of Washing- 

 ton, D. C.. secretary. 



Final Sessions. The meeting was an un- 

 usually small one, and it was found that the 

 World's Fair, instead of attracting a large num- 

 ber of scientists to Madison, proved a detriment. 

 Many had to arrange their visits to the exposi- 

 tion at other times, while others went as far as 

 Chicago on their way to Madison and stayed 

 there. Others reached Madison, but were in a 

 hurry to return. This was particularly evident 

 at the general, session, Thursday. The duration 

 of the meeting was therefore curtailed one day, 

 the closing exercises occurring on Aug. 22, in- 

 stead of Aug. 23 as originally announced. The 

 nominating committee met on Aug. 18, and their 

 selections were duly accepted at the general ses- 

 sion on Aug. 21 ; when also $100 was appro- 

 priated toward paying a year's expenses of some 

 student, to be selected by a committee later, in the 

 biological laboratory of the Wood's Hull (Mass.) 

 Summer School. It was then determined to send 

 a telegram of congratulation to Prof. H. Von 

 Helmholtz, the great German physicist, who had 

 just arrived at Chicago to attend the Electrical 

 Congress. At the final session 37 members were 

 advanced to the grade of fellow, in consideration 

 of their contributions to science. 



Next Meeting. Considerable discussion took 

 place concerning the place of meeting for 1894, 

 but it remained undecided. Boston and Worces- 

 ter, Mass., Providence, R. I., and Brooklyn, 



N. Y., were referred to, but the decision was left 

 with the president and the permanent -<( -n-tary. 

 San Francisco was spoken of as the place for 

 meeting in IN!)"), and an invitation was received 

 from Nashville for 1H!;. The following ollic.-rs 

 were chosen : President. iJaniel (i. I'.rintun, Me- 

 dia, Pa. Vice-pivMdcnts : A, George < '. Coin- 

 stock, Madison. Wis. ; B, William A. Rogers, 

 Waterville, Me.; C, Thomas II. Norton, Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio; D, Mansfield Merriman, South Beth- 

 lehem, Pa. ; E, Samuel Calvin, Iowa City, Iowa; 

 F, Samuel H. Scudder, Cambridge, Mass. ; G, 

 Lucien M. Underwood, Greencastle, Ind. ; H, 

 Franz Boas, Worcester, Mass. ; I, Harry Far- 

 quhar, Washington, D.C. Permanent Secretary, 

 Frederick W. Putnam, Cambridge, Mass. ' Gen- 

 eral Secretary, Herman L. Fairchild, Rochester, 

 N. Y. Secretary of the Council, James L. Howe, 

 Louisville, Ky. Secretaries : A, Wooster W. 

 Beeman, Ann Arbor, Mich.; B, Benjamin W. 

 Snow, Madison, Wis. ; C, S. M. Babcock, Madi- 

 son, Wis. ; D, John H. Kinealy, St. Louis, Mo. ; 

 E, William H. Davis, Cambridge, Mass. ; F, 

 William Libbey, Princeton, N. J. ; G, Charles R. 

 Barnes, Madison, Wis. ; H, Alexander F. Cham- 

 berlain, Worcester, Mass. ; I, Manly Miles, Lans- 

 ing, Mich. Treasurer, William Lilly, Mauch 

 Chunk, Pa. (re-elected.) 



British. The sixty-third annual meeting of 

 the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science was held in Nottingham during Sept. 

 13-19. The officers of the association were : fif esi- 

 dent, J. S. Burdon Sanderson. Section Presi- 

 dents : A, Mathematics and Physics, R. T. Glaze- 



JOHN SCOTT BURDON SANDERSON. 



brook : B, Chemistry, Prof. J. Emerson Reynolds ; 

 C, Geology, J. J. H. Teall; D, Biology, Rev. H. 

 B. Tristram ; E, Geography, Henry Seebohm : K. 

 Economic Science and Statistics, Prof. Joseph S. 

 Nicholson; G, Mechanical Science, Jeremiah 

 Head; H, Anthropology, Dr. Robert Munro. 

 General Secretaries, Sir Douglas Galton and Ver- 

 non Harcourt. Assistant Secretary, G. Griffith. 

 General Treasurer, Dr. Arthur W. Rucker. 



General Meeting 1 . The association began its 

 proceedings with a preliminary meeting of tin- 

 General Committee on Sept. 13, over which Sir 

 Archibald Geikie, the retiring president, pro- 

 sided. The report of the council was presented. 



