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and important, including a thousand or more extinct and nearly 

 or quite as many living vertebrates. 



Prof. Cope was for many years secretary and curator of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and chief of 

 the department of organic material of the permanent exhibition 

 of that city. He was elected a member of the National Academy 

 of Sciences in 1872. He has published numerous works of a scien- 

 tific nature, including sev- 

 eral hundred papers, and 

 dozens of larger works. He 

 has for many years edited 

 the American Naturalist. 



The fourth Buffalo meet- 

 ing is to be held in the 

 week beginning August 24th. 

 Mayor Jewett is president 

 of the local committee, and 

 Eben P. Dorr is local secre- 

 tary. Prof. Frederick W. 

 Putnam remains permanent 

 secretary, having filled that 

 office during the greater part 

 of the existence of the asso- 

 ciation. 



The association assem- 

 bles this year at Buffalo at 

 an epoch marked by wonder- 

 ful advances in applied sci- 

 ence. The harnessing of Ni- 

 agara, and the utilization of 

 that immense power for electrical and manufacturing purposes, 

 will furnish the most impressive object lesson which has ever 

 been presented to the association in the whole forty-eight years 

 of its existence. The study of Niagara has been an absorbing 

 feature of all the Buffalo meetings. Heretofore it was the geol- 

 )gy of that stupendous gorge which appealed most strongly to 

 the attention of visitors. Now the new and diversified uses of the 

 energy set free by the cataract will invest the visit to Niagara 

 with new importance and significance. 



Edward D. Cope, President elect A. A. A. S. 

 fourth Buffalo meeting, 1896. 



Prof. G. Stanley Hall expressed the opinion, at the recent meeting of 

 the American Antiquarian Society, that the difficulties of the American peo- 

 ple with the Indians had arisen from trying to educate them along a line 

 with which they have no sympathy, and with which they can not as- 

 similate, instead of encouraging them in improving their own scheme of 

 Life. 



