

UK AI' 



Peoples." by Robert .1 



Yilliam II. 



from 



afternoon Mt-ii.ui u 



Minion with Section K. when th.- f.-l. 

 paper* were read and dinou**. Geograph- 



ical 



he Delaware Valley 

 ;. k U 1'iitimm : "On the Implement-!.. 



s*t. I Deposit* . H- I; lv:i ' 



., . .. Sand De| odtfl 



s.archsin the Trent 



rencbe* du>: on the La 1<T I 'aim. .Inly 

 Investigation in the 



. 



Uollin 1>. Salisbury : 



nti'l "tu-n.-sis of Implement Makin_ k 11. 



< 



I Kronnmit '>*. The pre- 



siding officer of this section was Kichard T. Col- 



the subject 



s address u Improvidtnl civiii/^ition." At the 



,ui va- 

 lency, wealth, r .iitnM. panic, prosperity, 

 with concrete substances like 



gold pieces, but with states of mind: yet th.se ideas 



He at the foundation of commercial I and 



any of you e\er imairinc.l 



what would ha; niodern Rosicrucian 



<\ succeed in the turning of base metals cheaply 

 \ na ntain thai this i- im- 



possible." Th- IILT the conditions that 



would be likeh md making the fa< r 



clear that the present monetary standard was by n 

 manner of means a fixed on.-, he asked the aneaHOO, 

 Shall we hav. for such an accident for 



-ttlement of a monetary system f" "Our 

 present civilisation." he said. " is apt to be lop- 

 asymmetrical : it is not abreast 



of the knowledge of the time, and is n..t yi.-hling 

 to mankind n-arly the amount of comfort ami well- 

 being it miu'ht I..- made to d... From a great num- 

 ber of social ill- ami shortcomings, due ( hi.-tly 

 to tl ;.in^' of the race upon its adult 



stages, I select a few of the more serious, which will 

 re many centuries themselves in 



order to ra iniry among you whether it is 



not within the compass of hi. a\..rtoac- 



merely to gratify an al- 



tnii-tic impuls. in fnUOlmenl of'ethical 



ideals, but as a deliberate choir.- ,,f .liv.-r^inir poli- 

 dat," The waste of war and c-.n^ant preparation 

 for war was cited as "a malign heritage that has 

 i- far back as can be tra 



abstraction of numbers 



by warfare and prr. army life do not ac- 



count for the decline t, ,,f t|,,. great 



a natural term of 

 life for race*, a* f.-r indi- 

 main: ',ded that 



a well-founded suspicion that what in now 



... 



.' ' 





in du- tun. . happ.-n to 



Rome, Cart hap- 



-objects of pernicious comp* -t:ii.,n. m 

 thrift, luxury. th- Mi^ht of j, ; ,ra- i the 



IHJMM! at length. In 



closing, he sai the 



cnimJ.linj: of dogma, alreaxly 

 thoughtful m-n within ' i-timl ]> . 



giving riv . What i-* to ; 



its supernatural sanction is !<>- 



The foll-'winu'-MMi: 1 and dis- 



, !'.rm: 

 i with the Spoil System in n 



tion of the s\>tem to the 

 - ami Municipal n\\n,Tshipof Una-i. 

 I'uh. William 11. Hale: 



C I'o^itioji ..f Women " and " The Competition 



..tions ai I'ol.-nl l-'a- 



l.v ( miiiati.m 



I ;IM- of Sn; i Wt U : ' W 



implioii in the 1'niled 

 ihar: "The 'I Mini; of ' 



Mil.' of th, 



- The Tniied Stal.- ou't the I'ulilic 



Lands and !), i hen-from." l.\ 



liolton \\ i ontriltution- to i|, 



menl "f V t| l( . Smithmail In- 



>iitu: iamin : "The rriiiiiotimi 



ri.-ulturalS.-i,.! 



is, and th<' Load- th.-v carry," iiv - 

 (Jillelte ; "Animal Growth oi 

 William II. La/.-nl.y : "The Municipal 

 Ontario." l>y rharl.-s <'.. lames; a iid " A ".N..I.- .m 

 the Silver Question," ly An-hiliald Blue. 



Popular I'caturc-. - ion 'iii.-iil t- the d 

 of the p residential a.liln-^s on the eveiir 

 9, an informal r.-c.-jiiion was pv.-n l,\ the cil 

 of hctroit In the rooms of the Central Iliirh School, 



and on An::. L? a ocial reunion aii'i n was 



L'iven by the Ladie-' l{.-c.-ption Committ. 



i-M-ii' mad.- l>\ the chemii-al section to 



the works of 1-Ycderick B 



Ia\i- \ <'".. "ii A uu'. II. an. l' l.v the liMtaiiii-al 



section to the hothouses of Thoma* ; 



I'ointe on An-. \'2, while 



delegation of the association visited the \, 



in re-pons ( . j,, a special invitation sent them 

 I iy the commissi,,!), i 



i! cars were provi.Icil and tl. 



entertained with refreshments. T \<-ur- 



sion of the meeting wa< made <>n Am:. 1 t. when the 

 local committee provided a MeamKoat and con- 

 ducted the association on a water trip through the, 

 Tnilcd States Ship Canal in Lake Sic. C 

 and through the many islets which have I.e. 

 claimed from the shallows of that l>ody of water. 



Affiliated OruMiii/ations. other scientific as- 

 sociations. taking advantage of the gathering of SO 

 many memln-rs at the meeting of the An 

 sociation, have adopted the pra-tj< ..... f holding 

 meetings at the same place, and cont.-mporai 

 with the American A ociution. litit at such hours 

 as not to interfere with the regular Tthe 



i.ody. The fifteenth general meeting of the 



American 'Chemical S 18 held in hdn.it ! 



i 10 under the 

 Dudley, of Alt and with Albert C. Hale, 



of Brooklyn, N. ! w.-re 



held in joint s,.^i,, n with the chemical s,,.|ion of 



Association, atid during the 



meiitioneil it- |,r.-i|.-ni pn-il-l. while later the 



ient of the el,. -ion filled the diair. 



Phe regular annual meetinir oi sti for the 



Promotion of Agriottltunu Science wa< held on 

 HI and 11. Its president was Willia 

 nd he was 



.ly. of C 



Halsl.-ad. .n-wick. N. -L. while 



dnarfai S. Plumli.of I continued 



as 80' i he ninth summer meeting of the 



ty of America was held . 



and 11. under the presidency of Kdward Orion, of 



Columbus. Ohio, and with Herman L. Fairdiild. of 



N. V.. a~ se.-retary. Like the Chemical 



in joint s.-sion with Section L 



of the" ass4*-iation. The Ass,,,-iat ion of Iv-onomic 



Entomologists held it.- ninth annual meeting in the 



