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magnetic telegraph; Alexander D. Bache, super- 

 intendent of the United States Coast Survey; 

 Louis Agassiz, famous as a teacher and as a 

 naturalist; Benjamin Peirce, teacher of mathe- 

 matics in Harvard University, who demonstrated 

 the fluid constitution of the rings of Saturn; 

 James D. Dana, noted for his text-books on min- 

 eralogy and geology; James Hall, palaeontologist 

 and State geologist of New York ; Alexis Caswell, 

 meteorologist and physicist, President of Brown 

 University; Jacob W. Bailey, an early worker 

 on infusoria with the microscope, teacher of sci- 

 ence at West Point; Jeffries Wyman, the com- 

 parative anatomist of Harvard, a distinguished 

 worker in American anthropology; Stephen Alex- 

 ander, Professor of Astronomy in Princeton; 

 Isaac Lea, the conchologist and student of unios; 

 Frederick A. P. Barnard, physicist, educator, au- 

 thor, President of Columbia University; John S. 

 Newberry, naturalist, State geologist of Ohio; 

 Benjamin A. Gould, astronomer; John W. Fos- 

 ter, geologist, President of the Chicago Academy 

 of Sciences; William Chauvenet, mathematician, 

 President of Washington University, St. Louis; 

 T. Sterry Hunt, of the Canadian Geological Sur- 

 vey; Asa Gray, botanist, author of botanical 

 text-books; J. Lawrence Smith, chemist and min- 

 eralogist; Joseph Lovering, physicist, long a 

 teacher in Harvard; John L. Le Conte, entomolo- 

 gist; Julius E. Hilgard, physicist, superintend- 

 ent of the Coast Survey; and William B. Rogers, 

 founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. Dr. Benjamin's address was illustrated 

 with portraits of all the presidents of the Ameri- 

 can Association. 



The following-named papers were read and 

 discussed: Natural Distribution as modified by 

 Modern Agriculture, by John Hyde; Federal 

 Guarantees for maintaining Republican Govern- 

 ment in the States, by Cora A. Benneson; Cal- 

 culations of Population in June, 1900, by Henry 

 Farquhar; Power of the Consumer economically 

 Considered, by Florence Kelley; The Basis of 

 War and Peace, by Michael A. Clancy; The In- 

 crease in the Median Age of the Population of 

 the United States since 1850, by Mansfield Mer- 

 riman; Trusts: A Study in Industrial Evolution 

 and The Spoils System in Theory and Practice, 

 by Harry T. Newcomb; Moral Tendencies of 

 Existing Social Conditions, by Washington Glad- 

 den; Hysteresis in Social, Economic, and Vital 

 Phenomena, by Reginald A. Fessenden; Defective 

 Vision of School Children, by A. G. Field; Sci- 

 ence and Art in Social Development, by John S. 

 lark; The Personal Equation as a Psychological 

 Factor, by Laura O. Talbott; Positive Science 

 and Methods in Education, by Mrs. Daniel Folk- 

 mar ; Some New Aspects of Educational Thought, 

 by Thomas M. Balliet; and The Manual Element 

 in Education, by Calvin M. Woodward. 



On Aug. 23 this section met in joint session 

 with Section D to listen to the paper by Gilbert 

 B. Morrison mentioned under Section D. 



Affiliated Organizations. Other scientific 

 bodies, taking advantage of the gathering of so 

 many members at the meeting of the American 

 Association, have adopted the practice of hold- 

 ing meetings at the same place and contem- 

 poraneous with the American Association, but 

 at such hours as not to interfere with the regular 

 sessions of the larger body. The American Micro- 

 scopical Society held its twenty-first annual 

 meeting on Aug. 17, 18, and 19, with William C. 

 Krauss, of Buffalo, N. Y., as president, and 

 Henry B. Ward, of Lincoln, Neb., as secretary. 

 Sixteen or more papers were read, and at the 

 close of the meeting Albert M. Bleile, of Colum- 



bus, Ohio, was chosen president. The Society for 

 the Promotion of Engineering Education held its 

 sixth annual meeting on Aug. 17, 18, and 19, with 

 John B. Johnson, of St. Louis, Mo., as president, 

 and Albert Kingsbury, of Durham, N. H., as secre- 

 tary. A number of papers were read, and the 

 election resulted in the selection of Ira O. Baker, 

 of Mason, 111., as president. The Botanical So- 

 ciety of America held its fifth annual meeting 

 on Aug. 18 and 19, with Lucien M. Underwood, 

 of New York city, as president, and George F. 

 Atkinson, of Ithaca, N. Y., as secretary. Five 

 papers were read in full and several by title. 

 The president of last year, Dr. Nathaniel L. Brit- 

 ton, delivered his retiring address on Report of 

 Progress of Development of the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden. Prof. Benjamin L. Robinson, of 

 Harvard University, was chosen president for 

 the ensuing year, and Secretary Atkinson con- 

 tinued in office. The eleventh annual meeting 

 of the Association of Economic Entomologists 

 was held on Aug. 18 and 19, with Charles L. 

 Marlatt, of Washington city, as president, and 

 Archie H. Kirkland, of Maiden, Mass., as secre- 

 tary. A number of papers were read, and for 

 the ensuing year Laurence Bruner, of Lincoln, 

 Neb., was chosen president, while the secretary 

 remained unchanged. Simultaneously the Soci- 

 ety for the Promotion of Agricultural Science 

 held its meetings, and its final sessions were 

 held jointly with those of the entomologists. 

 Byron D. Halsted, of New Brunswick, N. J., was 

 its president, and Charles S. Plumb, of Lafayette, 

 Ind., its secretary. For the ensuing year William 

 T. Beal, of Lansing, Mich., was chosen president, 

 and Thomas F. Hunt, of Columbus, Ohio, as 

 secretary. The American Chemical Society held 

 its nineteenth general meeting in conjunction 

 with Section C of the American Association. Its 



S resident is Edward W. Morley, of Columbus, 

 hio, and its secretary, Albert C. Hale, of Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y. Nearly one hundred members were 

 registered as present. The Geological Society of 

 America, of which Benjamin K. Emerson, of Am- 

 herst, Mass., is president, and Herman L. Fair- 

 child, of Rochester, N. Y., is secretary, met in 

 joint session with Section E. The papers read 

 by the members, both of the chemical and geo- 

 logical societies, are incorporated with the list 

 given under Sections C and E. The second sum- 

 "mer meeting of the American Forestry Associa- 

 tion was held on Aug. 22 and 23, with James 

 Wilson, of Washington city, as president, and 

 George P. Whittlesey, of Washington city, as 

 secretary. The American Mathematical Society, 

 of which Albert S. Woodward is president, and 

 F. N. Cole, secretary, both of New York city, 

 met on Aug. 25 and 26. The Botanical Club of 

 the association, of which Byron D. Halsted, of 

 New Brunswick, N. J., is president, and Augustus 

 D. Selby, of Wooster, Ohio, secretary, met at in- 

 tervals during the meeting, and twenty-seven pa- 

 pers were read and discussed before its members. 

 Final Session. This was held on Aug. 25, 

 when it was announced that a grant of $50 was 

 made to the Committee on the White Race in 

 America for the establishment of an anthropomet- 

 ric laboratory. A second grant of $50 was made 

 for the quantitative study of biological variation 

 under Dr. Charles B. Davenport, and to report 

 and extend this work a committee was appointed, 

 consisting of Drs. Boas, Cattell, Minot, Eigen- 

 mann, and Davenport. The only other grant 

 made for research was one of $100 for the pur- 

 pose of stocking pools with different species of 

 blind vertebrates where they may be reared and 

 studied in the light, the work being carried out 



