A8BCK1\T1"NS FOB TIIK AlV.\X OP SCIENCE. 



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tie ab- 



; Ike time appointed 

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 it waa an informal 



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waetbeflnt 

 carried oo in the 



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- TW MallM* of Primary and *oadary 8tr 

 tarw la Baring" by Cfcarlee K. Van HUw ; - The . 

 efcawa aatf GaaibfWa Book* of the Green M 



i (,auiefn Miiisnliuema* by Benjamin *. 

 K - Getaa*> Cave;or *EK"l|* * 

 iVene<*byarte.HLHhcboock;-R*- 

 i of Marine Cretaceous 



,"by Arthur HoIHck;-Geo- 

 a the Atlantic and Pacific 

 i of 



-Gwlogioal Notes on the 

 ee Oflovey ; Subdivision 

 ' eaet Iowa," by Andrew 

 Notes oo the Meta- 



:: 

 I Baj " . - View oftae lee Age as T* 



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U and Champlain," by Warren Up- 

 -. . ^eoomeoa between Lake Champlain 

 eoJ LeJteOeefe an.1 the Iludaon," by George F. 

 WaMpool 



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. \ . iHyaU;Th 

 /by William M. Davis; 

 n the Su'rface Geokwy of the 



aaw U FinAlld: - Jaf^n." by Gardner G. Huh- 



hH: aad -Gnat FalU of the Mohawk at Cohoea, 



. with laaura Ulortmioo.), by William 1L C. 



/ooVofy. At the Brooklyn meeting of t he 

 aModation Praident David a JonUnTof the 

 Iceland Sunfoni nity. was chosen to 



fMwade over thb Mction. but, eubeeqnent to the 

 abawlottaantof the place of meeting in riif,, r - 

 ie, be raeifiied. To fill UM vacancv. Inland 

 O. Howard, of Waahingtoo, waa nominated by 

 Ike council aad UM selection waa confirmed. 



The 



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ml papers were read and 



TW Bveiutfea of the laatot Moatbpieet 



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 wlih Special Rateenee u, th, 



r*&ssy% 



-i^artSSoe. 

 ^rk,d.ofTime,wWi 



* * an Ordinal 

 ^therolobncnatha, 



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w Wheel for Color M 

 V Woo " and "Son H- Kurt In- 1 



i in tin- Human K. 



II IMNt.urv ; an.l " IW-rjiu aixl Hit 



" J.v Kj.firaJin I'. K. It. 



. /{olany.'l' n was presided over 



LrthUT, ..f Lafayrltr. In.i.. 



who delirered an address before the section. n- 

 UUed u The Derelopmen( .f \Y^.tl.lc- IMiysini- 

 ocy. n He said: " A half n-nt . 

 physiology in ilu- (allnafj of the modern IM.-JIM- 

 in^' 1: t. Structural botn 



Miinant |>hiis. mnl in rlnuriilary in-l nu- 

 tion close attention was paid to tin- f<>nn :in<l ar- 

 ranBenji-nt <-f the nr^ans of flnwrrin^ plants. 

 with the ulterior objed ( being able reaoilv t> 

 determin*- th.- naim-s -f tln> plants of t he field. 

 The r- -pirn in tin- Imtani'-al world 



emanated f r'<>n i th<- ol.-.T\ations ami intrrpnia- 

 tions of Charles Darwin, of tln> d.-v.-lopninit of 

 botany in the curriculum, he said that until the 

 time of Asa Gray it can not bo said to ha\ had 

 recognized stamfin- nit h. AjBerioao edaoatfonal 

 system. The department of )>hysiology has re- 

 ceived much attcntic.n here and than fr a lon^ 

 time, yet only very n-ccntly ha- it fallen into 

 place as a systematic part of the general sub- 

 ject. Ecology, which is the name under which 

 44 we are toat'tempt Die orderly . nt of 



the facts, observations, and deductions compos- 

 ing the science," was discu^ed. and tin n catiol- 

 ogy, which includes the various phases of juve- 

 escence, especially the <lynamics of the youn^ 

 cell, was considered. Elaborating the discussion 

 of physiology, he said : 



There are many wayt* in which plants hlmw similar 

 logical prooesses to thoat of animala; and plants, 

 being aimpler in organixation. tin 'ir >tud\ may pro- 

 mote a knowledge of animal pli\ -. 

 e*t similarity between the t\\" kingdoms Hea in nutri- 

 tion, reapiration, and repnHluction. The grca- 

 verfenoe b to be found m the manU\-*tation of irrita- 

 l.ility. Thfe t'imdameiital j^oceaeea upon wliieJi I.e- 

 anl e.-ntimi. i depend are much the 



throughout animate Nature, hut the processes by 

 h the ommlsm commii- i the world 



of itself, and thnmirh \vlii<-)i it i* enabled to 

 adjuM itself to environmental nditic.!^. tin- i-rocessee 

 ; n their h > known as 



sensation*, have attained great differentiation, run- 

 ning along essentially different lines of developmaati 

 The prevalent view that plant* n-.-upy an intermedi- 

 ate position between the mineral and the . 

 kingdoms in not true in any important respect N 

 i* it true that the faculties of animals, especially of 

 the lower animal*, are foreshadowed in i 



Of botany in this country. h> tai i : ? This j s 

 the country of all others where its practical and 

 nal importance islikely to oe most fully 

 ized, and where the beet-equipped and 

 at independent laboratories can moM r-adily 

 be established." In conclusion, he advocated 

 better equipped laboratories, and claimed "that 

 the next great botanical wave that sweeps over 



a will be a physiological on 

 quently the foil- ned papers were read 



and discussed before the section : 



" \ Ixsaf Rnt of Cabbage," bv H. L. Ruwell : u Root 

 Fungus of Maite" and"! 



recogni 

 moat in 



bir Oeorve Maolr,. 



Colon, n bv J. H. I'ilM.ury: "A Summary of a Re- 



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vision of the Gentu IHcranum." bv Charl 

 and Rodney II. i jK.llinating 



