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<s FOR THE ADVANCBMBNT OP SCIENCE, 



To the foorth eJass belong most of the 

 tie product of human U--r. 

 nrumulaU*! wraith, 

 fund, and other 

 the people t 



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to his own Spco.nl ty 

 U attempt to get the 



Olll; 



lly 

 of tamable forest oon- 



' . ,, ifabMbh 

 lead of curtailing 

 the future and 



th* salt* of other people's interest, can hard- 

 ly b* etpeeUd to be appreciated by the private 



the hope "that the 

 economy associated with 

 at that th 



natural resources. HO im- 

 and vet so much neglected, requires on 

 irt a hate and more careful considcra- 



ly the following-named papers were 

 'before the sect 



in Horticulture for Our Country 

 R. Lasenby ; - K M uality of Op. 

 MOOT* it f * hv J. L. Cowlw: 

 by William 1 

 by Emm L. Corthrll ; u Taxation in 



: V - \ 



i." by J. W. 8yl vector : - An Intsroa- 

 r lUnry Far^uhar; -The Law of 

 UB* 



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Kratarm of the Proeeeiligs. 



with an evening reception from 8 

 o Aac. 28. by the president of the 

 CUT Library Association to members of the as- 

 soeUlion si the Art Museum for the purpose 

 of tosprcting the George Walter Vincent - 



- ! .- ' 



the Dfesidantial eddr** on the erenfnir of Aug. 

 ft. Jbe umal reception by the Indies* Reception 



H. .... \ ... :;,. 



the An Muram was open to members 



in the afiernoon. In the erening a 



i Uctare on the " Geographical Develop- 

 of the OosjnsBttot Valley*(with lantern 

 Uoas). eoeipliinenUry to the citizens of 

 was Jvn by Prof. William M. Da- 

 mi University. As usual. Sal unlay 

 was devoted to an excursion and atrip 

 Hampton, and Mout 



. : r.d 



ci ilagM 



The main eirurston train 

 AmheretColkw was vttud, also 



f 



vOHSAs was arranged. Swell mem ben 

 M . . 



at Holyoke. The main etrursion trai 



the 



sects and their manner of li 

 tarn Amber* a vWtwa* 

 to inspect Smith Collece. 



y, and soologT. or the Maesa- 

 sJ QoUsy wfaa its insecUry, 

 stnes and oereioment of in 



_ were studied, 

 to Northampton, 



a union mat- 



ing on Sunday evening, Sept t.at which addresses 

 were given by Pnf Will,,,' sleyan 



'M.ddletown. Conn.. Prof. George 



. ' . :.. N. .1.. Pr.-l.l.-iit .lames 



Woodrow. of South i Mi^s 



Alice C. Fletcher, of Cambridge, Mass., scrm. -ns 

 appropriate to the occasion wm- .h-ii\. .-. ,1 at 

 the timming service of several of the churches. 

 Among these was one MM and Life," by 



ntili'c 

 Aspeots Of the Christian Kvidcnres." I \ 



l,n. k Wright; .ne on "Th.. Services of 

 Sciences," by i;.\. Mradlev (iilman : and one 

 on -The Alternative Ohnstianitv 

 Et . \\ 



o.i the i-veninu' <-f Sept. :{ a -eeond public lec- 

 ture, complimentary to the eiti/.n-^ ,,f S|nin^- 

 D " The Wild' HOW.T^ of the Com.- 



! lantern lllustrat ion), was 

 eiven by Mr. Cornelius \'an Mrunt.of New N'o.-k. 

 Also a pnblk lei-tun- on the Illii.trati\e Meth- 

 ol of teaching (Jeo^ruphy an<! at the 



Aiiu-riean Musi-um of Natural Hi-' 

 York City " i with lantern illu-t rat i<.ns) was given 

 -u S.-,,t.'4 by Prof. Albert S. I'.i. kmore, of New 

 Yorkeity. 



Affiliated Organizations. Various other 

 scientific societies, taking advantage of the path- 

 eringof so manv of their members at the 

 ing of the American Association, have in 

 years adopted the practice of holding meetings 

 at the same place and cont<-mponuieou> w n|, 

 the American Association, but at such hours as 

 not to interfere with the regular sessions of the 

 larger body. <>f thc-e. the Society for Promo- 

 tion of Agricultural Science met on Aug. 26 and 

 i??. Its president was William Saunders, of Ot- 

 tawa, Canada, and its secretary was William 

 Frear. of the state College, Center Count 

 The Botanical Society of America held meetingl 

 on Aug. 27 and 28 under the presidency of 

 Charles E. Bessey, of Lincoln. N, I,.. .-,11.1 with 

 Charles H. Barnes, of Madison, Wis., as secre- 

 tary. Likewise, on Aug. 27 and 28 the Ameri- 

 can Chemical SoHcty mot. with Kdpir F. Smith, 

 of the I'nivnrsity of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 

 Pa,, as president, and Albert C. Hale, of I 

 lyn. N. V.. as secretary. On the same dates the 

 Association of K<-<>n<>mic Kntomolo^ist- 

 vened, with .Mm H. Smith, of New Brunswick. 

 as president, ami Charles L. Marian, of 

 Washington, D. C., as secretary. TheGeol 

 Society of America held its seventh summer 

 meeting on ,nd -,'s. with Nathaniel S. 



Shaler, of Cambridge, Mass., as president, and 

 Herman L. Fairchild, of Hoc! Y., as 



secretary. The Am.-ri.-an Mathematical Societv 

 h^ld meetings on Au^. 'JT and LN. The presi- 

 d.-nt v rgc w. Hill, of West Nrack, 



N. .?.. and its secretary was Thomas S. Fiske, of 

 New York city. The Society for Promoting: 

 -rin- Education met on Sept. '->. :*. and 4. 

 with (Jeor ain, of Boston. Mass., as 



president, and .Mm B. Johnson, of St. Louis, 

 Mo., as secretary. The American Forestry As- 



t s-pt. 3. Its pn- 



the H- nit: Morton, and its secretary 



was Prank H. Newell, both of Washii 



As usual during the meeting, regular 

 sessions of the Botanical Club, with Da 

 Day, of Buffalo, N. Y M as president and Henry 



