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were invited to lunch with Mrs. Hermann and 

 were presented with a silver souvenir pin as a 

 memento of the trip. The other excursion was 

 to Cold Spring Harbor by way of East river, 

 Navy Yard, Hell Gate, Long Island Sound to 

 Laurelton Grove, on the west bank of Cold 

 Spring Harbor. Geologists who took this excur- 

 sion were enabled to visit the Cretaceous clays of 

 the north coast of Long Island folded by glacial 

 action, while the biologists visited the Biological 

 Laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

 iand Sciences and the New York Fish Commis- 

 sion station. 



On Monday, Aug. 20, an excursion to points 

 of interest in New York harbor, presented by the 

 Union Ferry Company through the courtesy of 

 Mrs. J. S. T. Stranahan, was taken up the East 

 river as far as the Navy Yard, then past Gov- 

 ernor's Island, Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton, the 

 Narrows, Fort Wadsworth, Sailors' Snug Harbor, 

 Bartholdi Statue, thence up the North river on 

 the Hoboken side. 



On the evening of Aug. 20 a second compli- 

 mentary lecture to the citizens of Brooklyn was 

 given by Edward D. Cope on " The Relation of 

 Human Structure and Physiognomy to those of 

 the other Mammalia"; while on the evening of 

 Aug. 21 a third lecture, on " The Battle of the 

 Forest," was delivered by Bernhard E. Fernow. 



On Aug. 23, the day following the final session 

 of the association, an excursion was made up the 

 Hudson river, through the Highlands to West 

 Point, affording opportunity to visit the West 

 Point Military Academy. 



Besides the foregoing, the United States steam- 

 er " Fishhawk " was placed by the United States 

 Fish Commission at the disposal of the members 

 for dredging excursions. Also special excursions 

 for the botanists, chemists, engineers, geologists, 

 mineralogists, and zoologists were arranged for. 



Affiliated Organizations. Various other 

 scientific societies, taking advantage of the gath- 

 ering of so many of their members at the meeting 

 of the American Association, have in recent years 

 adopted the practice of holding meetings at the 

 same place and contemporaneous with the Amer- 

 ican Association, but at such hours as not to in- 

 terfere with the regular sessions of the larger 

 body. The American Microscopical Society met 

 on Aug. 13, 14, and 15. Its president was Dr. 

 Lester Curtis, of Chicago, 111., and its secretary 

 Dr. William H. Seaman, of Washington, D. C. 

 The sixth summer meeting of the Geological 

 Society of America was held on Aug. 13, 14, and 

 15. Owing to the absence of its president, 

 Thomas C. Chamberlain, of Chicago, 111., the 

 vice-president, Nathaniel S. Shaler, of Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., occupied the chair, and Herman 

 L. Fairchild, of Rochester. N. Y., was secretary. 

 The Society for Promotion of Agricultural Sci- 

 ence held sessions on Aug. 14, 15, and 16. Its 

 officers were Lemuel 0. Howard, of Washing- 

 ton, D. C., president, and William Frear, of 

 Center County, Pa., secretary. The Association 

 of Economic Entomologists held sessions on 

 Aug. 14 and 15, under the presidency of Lemuel 

 0. Howard, of Washington, D. C., and with 

 C. P. Gillette, of Fort Collins, Col., as secretary. 

 The ninth general meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society was held on Aug. 15 and 16, 

 with Harvey W". Wiley, of Washington, D. C., 



as president, and Albert C. Hale, of Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., as secretary. The American Mathemat- 

 ical Society held sessions on Aug. 13, 14, and 15, 

 with Emory McClintock, of New York city, as 

 president, and Thomas S. Fisk, of New York 

 city, as secretary. The Society for Promoting 

 Engineering Education met during Aug. 15-24, 

 under the presidency of De Volsen Wood, of 

 Hoboken, N. J., as president, and John B. John- 

 son, of St. Louis, Mo., as secretary. The As- 

 sociation of State Weather Service, of which 

 Henry H. C. Dunwoody, of Washington, D. C., 

 and James Berry, of Washington, D. C.. were re- 

 spectively president and secretary, held its third 

 annual meeting on Aug. 17; and the American 

 Forestry Association held sessions on Aug. 21- 

 24, with J. Sterling Morton, of Washington, D. C., 

 as president, and J. D. W. French, of Boston, 

 Mass., as secretary. As usual during the meet- 

 ing, regular sessions of the Botanical Club, with 

 William P. Wilson, of Philadelphia, Pa., as 

 president, and Thomas H. McBride, of Iowa 

 City, Iowa, as secretary, and the Entomological 

 Club, with C. J. S. Bethune, of Port Hope, On- 

 tario, Canada, as president and Charles L. Mar- 

 latt, of Washington, D. C., as secretary, were 

 held. 



Final Sessions. The final sessions of the 

 association were held on Aug. 22, and at the 

 morning gathering, on recommendation of the 

 council, the names of Thomas T. Boure, of Bos- 

 ton, Mass. ; James D. Dana, of New Haven, 

 Conn. ; Epes D. Dixwell, of Cambridge. Mass. ; 

 Traill Green, of Easton, Pa. ; James H. Redfield, 

 of Philadelphia, Pa. ; and Charles E. West, of 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., all of whom were present, in 

 1849, at the first meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation, were added to the list of life members. 

 Also the names of 48 members, in consideration 

 of their contributions to science, were advanced 

 to the grade of fellows. Notice was given of 

 contemplated changes in the constitution one 

 to admit libraries to membership on the plane of 

 individuals, and the other to separate the divi- 

 sion now devoted to geography and geology. 

 The president of the council has authorized the 

 Committee on Grants to give $100 to the bio- 

 logical laboratory at Wood's Holl, Mass., for the 

 founding of an association table ; also a grant 

 of $100 was made to Franklin W. Hooper, of 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., for the purpose of promoting 

 certain original researches in the biological 

 laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. 

 The same committee by the same authority was 

 authorized to give to William A. Rogers and 

 Edward W. Morley, of the department of physics, 

 $100, with which to pursue their studies on in- 

 ferential comparison, and to Franz Boas, of the 

 anthropological department, $200, to continue his 

 anthropometric measurements of American In- 

 dians. There were 202 papers entered, of which 

 175 were read ; 218 new members were elected 

 to the association, and an attendance of 488 

 members and fellows. The Brooklyn meeting, 

 while not a great meeting, like the Boston (1880) 

 or Washington (1891) meetings, was a most suc- 

 cessful one, and perhaps just a little above the 

 average. 



Next Meeting. The exact place for the next 

 meeting was not definitely decided upon, but it 

 was agreed that it should' be held in California, 



