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ASSOCIATIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. (BRITISH.) 



by Prof. Carl H. Eigenmann. Reports were made 

 by the committees on the library, on standards 

 of measurement, and on the United States Naval 

 Observatory. Several committees that had ac- 

 complished the work for which they had been 

 appointed were discharged. President Orton an- 

 nounced the gift of $1,000 from Emerson McMil- 

 lin, who is well known for his generous bene- 

 factions to science, and Mr. McMillin was elected 

 a patron of the association. New amendments 

 to the constitution were proposed by W J McGee, 

 making the term of office of the treasurer five 

 years, and by J. McKeen Cattell, adding a 

 section of physiology and experimental medi- 

 cine. Section A was given permission to arrange 

 for a joint meeting with the American Mathe- 

 matical Society. Also Section H was authorized 

 to hold a winter session at such place as the 

 sectional committee should decide, and an ap- 

 propriation not exceeding $25 from the current 

 funds was allowed such section to cover the 

 expenses of printing. 



The usual resolutions of thanks were proposed 

 by a committee and presented by Past-President 

 Thomas C. Mendenhall. 



The attendance was 352 members and associ- 

 ates, which gives the Columbus meeting the rank 

 of 15 among the 48 meetings thus far held. There 

 were 273 papers presented before the association, 

 distributed as follow: Section A, 14; B, 40; 

 C, 55; D, 15; E, 33; F, 19; G, 33 (Botanical Club, 

 27); H, 20; and I, 17. 



The treasurer's report showed a gratifying in- 

 crease in the funds of the association. In addi- 

 tion to the income derived from investment, the 

 permanent secretary was able to turn over to 

 the treasurer $1,000 derived from membership 

 fees to be added to the permanent fund. 



The Next Meeting. Invitations were re- 

 ceived from Ithaca, N. Y., Philadelphia, Pa., 

 Saratoga Springs, N. Y., New York city, Niagara 

 Falls, N. Y., Jacksonville, Fla., and Denver, Col. 

 It was decided to meet in New York city during 

 the week of June 25-30, at Columbia University. 

 It was urged that, as a large number of the mem- 

 bers would be going to the Paris Exposition or 

 for travel in other parts of Europe, it would be 

 of the greatest convenience for them to meet in 

 the metropolis. The following officers were 

 chosen: President, Robert S. Woodward, Colum- 

 bia University, New York city. Vice-presidents 

 of sections: A, Asaph Hall, Jr., University of 

 Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; B, Ernest Merritt, 

 Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. ; C, James Lewis 

 Howe, Washington and Lee University, Lexing- 

 ton, Va. ; D, John A. Brashear, Pittsburg, Pa.; 



E, James F. Kemp, Columbia University, New 

 York city; F, Charles B. Davenport, Harvard 

 University, Cambridge, Mass.; G, William Tre- 

 lease, Shaw's Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo.; 

 H, Amos W. Butler, Indianapolis University, 

 Indianapolis, Ind.; I, Calvin M. Woodward, 

 Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. Perma- 

 nent secretary, Leland O. Howard, Cosmos Club, 

 Washington city. General secretary, Charles 

 Baskerville, University of North Carolina, Chapel 

 Hill, N. C. Secretary of the council, William 

 Hallock, Columbia University, New York city. 

 Secretaries of the sections : A, Wendell M. Strong, 

 Yale University, NeW Haven, Conn.; B, Reginald 

 A. Fessenden, Western University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, Alleghany, Pa.; C, Arthur A. Noyes, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, 

 Mass.; D, William T. Magruder, Ohio State Uni- 

 versity, Columbus, Ohio; E, Joseph A. Holmes, 

 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C.; 



F, Carl H. Eigenmann, Indiana University, Bloom- 



ington, Ind.; G, Daniel T. MacDougal, Columbia 

 University, New York city; H, Frank Russell, 

 Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; I, Harry 

 T. Newcomb, Census Bureau, Washington city. 

 Treasurer, Robert S. Woodward, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York city. 



British. The sixty-ninth annual meeting of 

 the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science was held in Dover, Sept. 13-20. The 

 officers were: President, Sir Michael Foster. 



SIR MICHAEL FOSTER. 



Section presidents: A, Mathematics and Physics, 

 John H. Poynting; B, Chemistry, Horace T. 

 Brown; C, Geology, Sir Archibald Geikie; D, Zo- 

 ology, Adam Sedgwick ; E, Geography, John Mur- 

 ray; F, Economic Science and Statistics, Henry 

 Higgs; G, Mechanical Science, Sir William H. 

 White; H, Anthropology, Charles H. Read; I, 

 Physiology, John N. Langley; K, Botany, Sir 

 George King. General treasurer, Carey Foster. 

 General secretaries, Edward A. Schafer and Wil- 

 liam C. Roberts-Austen. Assistant general secre- 

 tary, G. Griffith, College Road, Harrow. 



General Meeting. The association began its 

 proceedings with a meeting of the general com- 

 mittee on Sept. 13, presided over by Sir Archi- 

 bald Geikie, when the report of the council for 

 the year 1898-'99 was presented. In this it was 

 suggested that the meeting this year would be 

 memorable from the fact that for the first time 

 in the history of the association the time and 

 place of meeting had been fixed in conjunction 

 with and in response to an invitation of the 

 French Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, with the object of affording an opportunity 

 for the members of the sister associations to ex- 

 change visits and to participate in scientific dis- 

 cussions. The death of Past-President Sir Doug- 

 las Galton was mentioned, and it was reported 

 that Sir William Crookes had been nominated as 

 a delegate to represent the association at the 

 jubilee of Sir George Gabriel Stokes, and that 

 he presented an address on that occasion. The 

 various resolutions referred to the general com- 

 mittee by the council were acted upon, notably 

 one authorizing the council to make a grant of 

 1,000 out of the accumulated fund of the as- 

 sociation to the national antarctic expedition. 

 It was reported that satisfactory arrangements 



