ASSOCIATIONS FOR TUB ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



. . William P 

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o r nlnr Pra*f*lM.-The waal J*$* 

 rertaihienr arts* of the coi. 



Uataeiooailkmbefim to seasons was held ; 



at Ks> hr*fl nn art firs of the asso* 

 woruiT* wawaawaan^ ^MJ*' 



dailoiu on Aug. W, at noon. At this session 



WILLIAM noaunr. 



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Of the 



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pertaining to the Arrangements 

 settled, and the reports of 

 acted on. Also the names 



At a meetin* held on Jan. 29, 

 had been already acted on. The geo- 

 with which tie public meetings be- 

 in Association Hall. ,,f the Young 

 on Aug. . The 



to order by Secretary Put- 

 tier of regret from the re- 

 IT. Ilrinton, announcing his 

 pe owing to the illness of his 

 an. II Mrewer, the senior rice- 

 prestdeot, was then called to the chair, and in a 

 few brfef oneiDliawrtiry remarks, in whi< h a 

 raeareoot was made to his mafniVent work on 

 taw. iJelerulMliiin of the atomic weight. ' 



tatrodooed the new president, Edward Wfl- 

 Prof. Moriey etpressed his thanks 

 for the hwrthat they bad 



pray*r. An address of welcome by 01 Taeiil 

 BoT.WttlammX.naiKa.chairiiMMj'oftbelocal 

 of mmisjmiH, followed, in the 



of these aci- 



to environment of many in*tiiuti..ns of learning, and 

 ttagreai \nr trirn. That yoor convention 



will be success we trunt and believe confidently. 



EX rv*ult will have- a twnvftcial eftWt U|M,I, tins 

 community wo know in advance. This is an age 

 :H demandinf the fullest exposition and ex- 

 planation of the wondcrttil phenomena hitherto ao 



Ion in obscurity that miring 







lilt ill) . 



ee eoald befand thaa oor 

 wttli tti hJstorieal amii 



i in .lue time be made 

 plain to humanity I and it i> the privilege of thisaaao- 

 whiehembraoei in it., members so many who 

 have achieved marked success in the realm of science, 

 to greatly advance the cause of scientific reseat 



In iN-lmlf of Springfield, its mayor, th. II. .n. 

 Charles L. Long, then welcomed the association 

 to the meeting held 

 there in IH.V.i under 



ler. and of the progress in science since 

 .me. he closed with the following: 



I am greatly honored in being the representative 

 i as its represent b ndim: 



to you a cordial welcome to our borders, to an asso- 

 rt h our people, to an examination of 

 us, and to - ":iinment as we i 



able t- 11 ; and I assure 



your presence our citizens appreciate that they are 

 greatly honored by rea- hiirh Mai. 



individuals, your ... attainments, ami the 



reputation ofyour ansociation, whose Illustrious work 

 in the !>a>t Wfll be. I ai; .led hy tin 



which will crown its labor* in tin- future. 



President Moriey then thanked the s|- 

 for their \v.rd- of welcome and recalled t; 

 that of the members elected in Springfield in 

 1859 only three survive, namely, Prof. Simon 

 Newcomb, Prof. Henry A. Ward, and Dr. Samuel 

 id. r. He also said, "This section i- tin- 

 home of the highest literary life of the country, 

 and no Stnte nas more intellectual life than 

 Massachusetts." 



Miscellaneous business of the association was 

 then taken up, after which the association ad- 

 journed to meet in sections. 



Address of the Retiring President. The 

 association met in the Court S' :.r.>n 



the evening of Aug. 29 to hear the retiring ad- 

 dress of President Daniel G. Brinton. ' 

 to President Brinton's al>sencc, the address was 

 read by the general secretary. Its subject was 

 " The Aims of Anthropology. He said : 



My endeavor will be to point out both the 

 diate and remote aims of the science of anthropology, 

 and to illustrate by some examples the ! 

 have on the thougnts and act* of civilized communi- 

 ties and intelligent individualH. ... I use tl 

 anthropology in the sene in whi.-h it has been 

 - i hy this association that is, to include the -tu-iy of 

 the whole of man, his psychical ax well 

 ical nature, and the products of all hi.* activities, 

 whether in the Mat or in the present. You will 

 readily understand from this the magnitude <>f the 

 material which anthropology includes within its do- 

 main. K.r-t. it investigates the physical lift 

 in all its stages and in every direction. Whi 

 Mill folded in the womb it watches his embryonic 

 progress through those lower forms which Stem the 

 reminiscences of far off stage* "f the evolution of the 

 species, until the child is born into th 

 dowed with the heritage transmitte.l from innumer- 

 able ancestor* and already rich in persona 

 from it* prenatal life. These combined fie. ide the 

 individual's race and strain, and potently incline, if 

 they do not absolutely coerce, his tastes and ambi- 



