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-ation to hold its Jabilee Meeting in Boston. 

 Later, the Governor of Massachusetts and 

 "the Mayor of the city of Boston united with 

 the various scientific and educational insti- 

 tutions of Boston and vicinity in a cordial 

 invitation to the Association to hold its 

 anniversary meeting in the city of its birth. 

 This invitation was accepted at the Detroit 

 meeting. 



The Boston Local Committee is now or- 

 ganized ; and the names of the distinguished 

 men and women included in this Commit- 

 tee is a guarantee that everything will be 

 done to make the meeting a successful one, 

 both in its scientific and its social aspects. 

 All realize that this anniversary gives prom- 

 ise of being the most important scientific 

 gathering ever held in the United States, 

 and that the celebration of fifty years of 

 science in America is an occasion worthy 

 of the best efforts of the city. 



Many foreign scientists will be invited to 

 take part, and many foreign educational 

 and scientific institutions will undoubtedly 

 send delegates, thus giving to the meeting 

 an international character. 



During the Association week and the 

 days immediately preceding, a number of 

 affiliated societies will meet in Boston, in- 

 cluding the American Forestry Association, 

 the American Geological Society, the Amer- 

 ican Chemical Society, the Society of Eco- 

 nomic Entomologists, the Society for Pro- 

 moting Engineering Education, the Societj^ 

 for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, 

 the American Mathematical Society and 

 several other important bodies. 



The officers of the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology and of the Boston So- 

 ciety of Natural History have generously 

 placed their halls and rooms at the disposal 

 of the Association ; and thus accommoda- 

 tions will be furnished for all the Sections 

 and for the General Sessions in three closely 

 adjoining buildings. 



The Corporation of Harvard University 



has invited the Association to be its guest 

 for a day in Cambridge, and the Essex In- 

 stitute has arranged for a day in Salem. 

 There will also be an excursion in the har- 

 bor and, after the meeting, trips to the 

 White Mountains and to Cape Cod. Mem- 

 bers who were present at the last Boston 

 meeting, in 1880, and at the Salem Meeting, 

 in 1869, will recall many pleasant memo- 

 ries of those occasions, when the impor- 

 tance of the scientific gatherings was ri- 

 valled only by the enjoyment of the social 

 entertainments. 



Believing that every member of the As- 

 sociation will wish to attend its fiftieth an- 

 niversary, all those whose names have 

 dropped from the roll are earnestly re- 

 quested to renew their membership, either 

 by paying back assessments and having 

 their names replaced on the role under their 

 old date of election or by re-election. 



It is my hope that at least a thousand 

 new members will be elected by the Coun- 

 cil before the Boston meeting, and I beg of 

 each member of the Association to aid me 

 in accomplishing this, my last request as 

 Permanent Secretary. There are in every 

 community many men and women engaged 

 in scientific work who should be invited to 

 join the Association ; and there are many 

 more qualified to become members who 

 would find in the meetings of the Associa- 

 tion the very incentive they need to de- 

 velop their love of scientific work. I ear- 

 nestly appeal to every member to make 

 known the objects and character of the 

 Association, and to aid in securing such an 

 increase of membership as shall make this 

 fiftieth anniversary a marked event in the 

 history of the Association. 



Nominees for membership will be consid- 

 ered at the Council meetings to be held 

 before the Boston meeting. All nomina- 

 tions should be sent to the Permanent Sec- 

 retary that they may be considered at the 

 first following meeting of the Council. 



