A88CM I.\TI\ UK AD 1 OF BCD 



ington city; I.Archibald 111-. .uada. 



Iward. N 



^. The usual regular 

 - council with which the 

 ^nsiU session* wa* h.ld unh.- II 



:, hcad.pmrter* of the associa- 

 tion, on An.-. T, at 'n..n. At this seesion the final 

 . ; ing to OH iff* - ' ' ' ' 

 inn wet* settled, ami the reports of the local 



,.-...:. I-, ,- '. ',:..: ; a. '- : r 



Moeral session with which th> 

 SHI was held in the auditorium of the Central 

 School at u' was 



s])sd to order by Secretary Putnam, who. after 



... ; .,,:.-. d 



hinuooesii r Prof. Gill, who promptly declared the 

 meetingoprn, and then called to the chair the 

 Yioe-picwident of the n--.* iati..n j.rvscnt. Mr. \\ -I 

 .H presiding officer in the place 

 of President Gibbs, who was unable to attend on 

 Account of illnevs. A short prayer was made by 

 the BeT. Frank .1. Van A- d then a tenor 



f Thank-;: mil Pease, 



Hon. William 



i the association in a short 

 but plea-ant address, in the course of which IP 



:in a scientific city. There was formed here 

 years ago a society by that pod man !'.< la llubbard 



/at ion which i- now 



in session here. We are founded on id in 



this building for a place of meeting we offer you a 

 vliich affords you an environ- 

 ment that must have it* influence upon your work 

 within its halls." He was followed by Hon. Thomas 

 \V. p ; ,lmer. f.-nner 1'nited States Senator f Of Michi- 

 gan, v more at length and offered for the 

 f the a>-oejation the following apt 

 tion of science. lie referred to it as "a 

 classification of phenomena so arranged that ^-\\- 

 ral principle may be reduced upon which rules of 

 action may be established in particular cases." Mr. 

 HeGee replied to both addresses in fitting words, 

 after which ad -eminent." was rendered 

 by Miss Mary L. Denison and Mr. Pease. The 

 usual announcements then followed by the perma- 

 t he general, and theloral secretaries and then 

 Miss Denison sang "The Dan/a." at the close of 

 which the meeting adjourned. 



Add res- .,1 the ll.-tirin- Prcxideiit. ( iwini: 

 to the death "f D. Cope, the retiring presv 



.:icil of the American 

 .'ed the senior vii-e-jiresident, 

 Theodore N. QflCof Washington eit .-d to 



the presidency at tl Prof, (i ill 



was Invited to present an address that should be 

 Descriptive of tae work of Oope. A- the scientific 

 careers of (till and Cope began simultaneously 

 that is, their first published contributions to s< 

 were accepted for publication on April 'J!. iw.t. by 

 the Academy of Natural S<-ien-es in Philadelphia 

 and as they had been ft , more 



aiipropriate subject could have b. t , by 



Jill. The a*- ,r this 



addrww in the auditorium of the Central ; 

 School at 8 P. x fhe title K 



ldress by Prof. Gill wa- Drinker 



Naturalist : A Chap- 



wn long friend-hip with 

 as indicated above, he gave a brief b 

 sketch of the m-re imj-.rtant events in the hf,- ,,f 



aid then con-i.l.re-i 



essiv ^ to herp iithy- 



ology, mammalogy, and DllsjontofofJ, aft-r wliich 

 he exam; es|H-cially 



those relating to evolution, closing with an a- 

 to forecast the position he is destined t 



the li. 01 the tiiM named he >aid : 



,nd herp. :i art : he left il a 



mainly for t he nam- 



'! it the e\piv ion (.f the 



! all structural feature^. The refor- 



mations IL ion of the anu- 



ain|ihiliiaiio and the saurian reptiles were 



..illy notable." The ichl h> olo-ical |al.-r- ..f 



-d as unusually valuable oontribu* 



gjesj of ichthyology 



has biMii much accelerate i i >y t hesc labors. 



THEODORE N. OILL. 



but by the investigations they <-halleni:'." Col 

 i\\X his work on mammals, he said that "he always 

 iered the old and new the extinct and recent 

 forms together. lie refused to lie liound by con- 

 sistency or liy precedent, either set by himself or 

 other-. Fre-h discoveries ojiened new vi-tas to him. 

 and he modified his views from time to time, and 



aS Often ll* he received IieW evidence." Most Of 



'- contributions to tt, >f paleontology 



wercdNciis-ed l,\ Prof. (Jill in the variou- bra: 

 as above enumerated, to which the fossils properly 

 belonged, but he made re: his pulilicat ions 



on palaeontology, and closed that section with tln-e 

 words: "The evolntion of the various animal, and 

 especially mammalian types, was also continually 

 the subject of Cope's researches, and he at tempted 

 to trace the passage from those of the most ancient 



d to tho-c of later 00 

 philosophical view-. Prof, (iill -aid : "The 

 mission of acquired characters wa* one of t! 

 cepted ami nu-t fheri^lipd dogmas of C"pe. and 

 the belief in traiisini-sibility .f such ch 

 an essential of the creed of "o many who have be- 

 lli* followers in Ameriea. that a -pecial school 

 came into i, nown as the Neo-Lamarckian 



and also a- the Am- 1." 



In elo-in-. he com pared Cop*; with Cuvier. Owen, 

 and Huxley, and said : "Co|>e covered a field as ex- 



of the three. Hi- kliowled. 



structural' -.swas 



probably n metrical than that of any of 



with whom 'he i* compan-d : hi- command of 

 material was greater than that of any of the others; 

 his industry was equal to Owen'-: in the cle, 

 of his Conception! he was equaled by Huxley alone; 

 in the skill with which he weighed <lis.-,,vered facts, 

 in th> of his presentation of those facts, 



and in the lucid methods by which the lalx>r of the 



