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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



ton, S. C, were the extremes north and south. New Haven, 

 Cleveland, Washington, Providence, Baltimore, Springfield, and 

 Newport were also visited. 



The association adjourned at Newport in 1860, intending 

 to meet at Nashville in 1861, but the war intervened, and the 

 meeting could not be held ; and there were no other meetings 



till 1866, when seventy- 

 nine members met at Buf- 

 falo and reorganized the 

 association. Since that time 

 Buffalo has been a sort of 

 Mecca, and every tenth year 

 we reassemble there. The 

 president at the first Buf- 

 falo meeting was Frederick 

 A. P. Barnard, President of 

 Columbia College. At the 

 second Buffalo meeting 

 William B. Rogers, already 

 mentioned as the last Presi- 

 dent of the American Asso- 

 ciation of Geologists and 

 Naturalists, presided. Ed- 

 ward S. Morse was presi- 

 dent at the meeting in 1886. 

 Edward D. Cope, of Phila- 

 delphia, has been elected 

 president for the meeting 

 of this year. 



Since the reorganization 

 at Buffalo the association has expanded and developed in many 

 ways. At the Hartford meeting in 1874 it was incorporated under 

 the laws of the State of Massachusetts, and it has its headquar- 

 ters and museum at Salem. At the Hartford meeting also pro- 

 vision was made to apply the designation of " fellows " to such of 

 the members as were devoted to science or had advanced the 

 cause of science, and one hundred and fifty-seven members were 

 thus constituted fellows, of whom about one half still survive. 

 Since that time the number of fellows increased year by year, 

 till in 1893 there were seven hundred and ninety- six, while the 

 membership of the association reached its maximum of two 

 thousand and fifty-four in 1891. The largest attendance of mem- 

 bers was at Boston in 1880, when nine hundred and ninety- 

 seven were registered. At Philadelphia in 1884 the registration 

 reached twelve hundred and sixty-one, but nearly three hundred 

 of this number were visitors from the British Association, which 



William C. Redfield, first President A. A. A. S. 

 Philadelphia, 1848. 



