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final session was lield on Wednesday even- 

 ing, September 4. At these general ses- 

 sions all business transacted by the Council 

 was announced and their recommendations 

 were considered by the Association. The 

 more important items of business should be 

 enumerated. After a prolonged discus- 

 sion on the recommendation of the Coun- 

 cil to change the name of Section I 

 from Economic Science and Statistics to 

 Sociology, the Association voted that the 

 Section should be called Economic and Social 

 Science. The Association declined to form 

 a Section of Geography, letting Section E 

 remain Geology and Geograjjhy. 



Grants were made from the Research 

 Fund as follows : $100 to Professor William 

 A. Rogers, of Colby University, for continu- 

 ing the work of Professor Morley and him- 

 self on the measurement of the expansion of 

 metals by means of the interferential com- 

 parator ; $100 to support a table at the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's 

 Holl, the same to be under the direction of 

 Vice-Presidents of the sections of zoology 

 and of biology ex-officio, and of Professor 

 C. O. Whitman, of the University of Chi- 

 cago ; $250 towards the support of the In- 

 ternational Bibliographical Bureau at Zu- 

 rich, Switzerland. This bureau is the re- 

 sult of the work of an American zoolgist. 

 Dr. H. H. Field, and aims to prej^are a 

 current svibject index of the publications in 

 zoology. Owing to a financial stringency 

 in the treasury of the Association it was felt 

 necessary to curtail grants and other ex- 

 penditures, and in view of this a nvimber of 

 members and friends subscribed several 

 hundred dollars for the needs of the Assq- 

 ciation, and the hope was expressed that 

 others will make this sum up to at least 

 one thousand dollars. 



It was decided to deposit the Library, 

 which consists of several thousand volumes, 

 mostly exchanges, with the University of 

 Cincinnati, where it will be available to the 



members and fellows for direct consultation, 

 or by mail, or express. The University of 

 Cincinnati has offered to keep it in their 

 new building and to bind -within the next 

 five years all the volumes, nearly three- 

 fourths, which are now unbound. A card 

 catalogue of the Library will be made, and 

 it is hoped that the members and fellows 

 will utilize the valuable publications in the 

 Library. Professor J. U. Lloyd, of Cincin- 

 nati, and his brother have also in this con- 

 nection offered to make their Botanical and 

 Pharmaceutical Library accessible to the 

 Association. This Library is probably the 

 most complete on the continent in these 

 subjects and is being constantly added to. 



Professor Benjamin Apthorp Gould, of 

 Cambridge, and Professor Rudolph Leuck- 

 art, of Leipzig, were elected to Honorary 

 Fellowship in the Association. 



The Sectional Committees of each Section 

 were instructed to make efforts to have the 

 jjrogram for their respective sections for 

 the next meeting prepared as far as possible 

 in advance, and the provisional programs 

 will be distributed to the members at least 

 a month before the time of meeting. It 

 was felt that the experience of the Section 

 of Chemistry showed that this would add 

 much to the interest and profit of the meet- 

 ing. 



The election of officers for the meeting of 

 1896 resulted as follows : 



President, Edward D. Cope, of Philadelphia. 



Vice-Presidents, A. Mathematics and Astronomy, 

 Wm. E. Story, of Worcester, Mass. B. Physics, 

 Carl Leo Mees, of Terre Haute, Ind. C. Chemistry, 

 W. A. Noyes, of Terre Haute, Ind. D. Mechanical 

 Science and Engineering, Frank 0. Marvin, of Law- 

 rence, Kans. E. Geology and Geography, Ben. K. 

 Emerson, of Amherst, Mass. F. Zoology, Theodore 

 N. Gill, of Washington, D. C. G. Botany, N. L. 

 Britton, of New York City. H. Anthropology, Alice 

 C. Fletcher, of Washington, D. C. 1. Economic and 

 Social Science, AVilliam R. Lazenhy, of Columbus, 0. 



Permanent Secretary (for 5 years from 1894), F 

 W. Putman, Cambridge, Mass. 



General Secretary, Charles K. Barnes, Madison, Wis, 



