Septebibee 6, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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phenomena of the Ti-iassic. Before the 

 meeting a more extended trip was taken by 

 a good sized company. Professor Wm. H. 

 Hobbs guided them through the interesting 

 metamorphic region of the Berkshire Hills. 

 They were met at Pittsfield by Professor 

 Emerson, wlio took them to Chester, Ber- 

 nardston, Turner's Falls, and other points 

 of interest in the Connecticut ValleJ^ 



On the whole the meeting was an inter- 

 esting and well attended one, but, as in 

 previous summers, the fellows of the Geo- 

 logical Society to a very great extent re- 

 turned to their homes on its conclusion. 

 The meetings of Section E of the American 

 Association are thereby crippled, and the 

 question was raised in the minds of not a 

 few, who have the interests of Section E 

 likewise at heart, whether it is on the 

 whole wise for the Geological Society to 

 hold other than a business meeting, in the 

 summer, for which there would always be a 

 sufficient number of fellows on account of 

 the meetings of the American Association. 

 It is also a question whether it is wisest 

 for the American Association to have for 

 its meetings a week broken by Saturday 

 and Sunday. The temptation for members 

 to go to their homes on Saturday is well- 

 nigh irresistible and comparatively few re- 

 turn. As a result the final sessions have 

 few attendants and the available candidates 

 for sectional officers who are actually pres- 

 ent on the day of election are few. A 

 session beginning Tuesday and closing Sat- 

 urday would have many advantages. 



J. F. Kemp. 



Columbia College. 



THE BELATIOm OF THE INDUSTRIES TO 

 THE ADVANCEMENT OF CHEMICAL 

 SCIENCE* 

 "We justly congratulate ourselves that de- 

 velopment and progress in chemistry, both 

 * All address before the American Associatiou for 

 the Advancement of Science, August 29, 1895, by 

 the Vice-President, Section C. 



in science and technology, have been more 

 rapid in the past three decades than ever 

 before, and that as much has been accom- 

 plished in this period as in all the years 

 preceding since reactions have been known 

 and applied. l^Tew elements, new com- 

 pounds, new theories and new laws have 

 followed each other in the manifold direc- 

 tions with such enormous rapidity that few 

 have been able to keep informed of all, and 

 most of us of only a few, of the discoveries 

 and generalizations that have been made. 

 It is for the i^urpose of exchanging infor- 

 mation on these subjects that we come to- 

 gether at the present time, and it has been 

 the custom of the Chairman to discuss one 

 or another of these lines of progress, set- 

 ting forth the most important of what has 

 been developed in the more recent times. 

 In many of the discussions and addresses 

 on similar occasions by those more or less 

 closely allied with or engaged in the study 

 of so-called pure chemistry, much has been 

 said of the practical value of the results 

 obtained in the scientific laboratories de- 

 voted to research, and the uses they have 

 found in daily life. No one has arisen to 

 question the truth of what has been said, 

 nor could it be questioned, for the men who 

 have been working with the most unselfish 

 devotion to the pursuit of truth for truth's 

 sake, and with little hope of reward for the 

 service they have rendered, have acquired 

 and disseminated a store of knowledge 

 which has added so largely to the capacity 

 of all men for work that only the most 

 grateful acknowledgments may be offered. 

 While all this may be accepted, it is seldom 

 that anything is heard regarding the recip- 

 rocal influence of the industries and the or- 

 dinary occupations of daily life upon the 

 development or advancement of chemical 

 science, and it has seemed that, in this 

 period of relaxation, it would be well to 

 stop and consider what are the relations of 

 the industries to the science from the other 



