September 13, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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Secretary of the Council, Asapli Hall, Jr., of Ami 

 Arbor, Mich. 



Secretaries of the sections, A. Mathematics and 

 Astronomy, Edwin B. Frost, of Hanover, N. H. B. 

 Physics, Frank P. Wliitman, of Cleveland, 0. C. 

 Chemistry, Frank P. Venahle, of Chapel Hill, N. C. 

 D. Mechanical Science and Engineering, John Gal- 

 hraith, of Toronto, Can. E. Geology and Geography, 

 A. C. Gill, of Ithaca, N. Y. F. Zoology, D. S. Kel- 

 licott, of Columbus, O. G. Botany, George F. At- 

 kinson, of Ithaca, N. Y. H. Anthropology, John G. 

 Bourke, U. S. Army. I. Economic and Social Sci- 

 ence, K. T. Colburn, of Elizabeth, N. J. 



Treasurer, E. S. Woodward, New York, N. Y. 



Invitations to hold the meeting of next 

 year at St. Paul, Indianapolis, Colorado 

 Springs and Buffalo were presented. Buf- 

 falo was selected, partly for the reason that 

 there has come to be a sort of precedent for 

 a meeting at Buffalo every ten years. The 

 Association met at Buffalo first in 1866, the 

 first meeting after the opening of the war ; 

 1S76 and 1886 saw the Association again 

 there, and now in 1896 the visit to Buffalo 

 will be repeated. It was also kept in mind 

 that a strong effort is being made to have 

 tlie British Association meet at Toronto in 

 1897, and that the west would furnish desir- 

 able places for a joint meeting of the two 

 Associations. 



Much more debate was occasioned in se- 

 lecting the date for the next meeting. The 

 meeting of this year, beginning as it did 

 the fifth week in August, was felt to be too 

 late, the early opening of the schools and 

 some colleges preventing the attendance of 

 many teachers. This year the meeting- 

 opened on Thursday; sections met on Fri- 

 day ; Satn.rday was devoted to excursions, 

 and the Sections renewed their meetings on 

 Monday. The break of two days was felt 

 to be detrimental to the interests of the As- 

 sociation. The Council proposed that the 

 first meeting and Vice-Presidential and Pres- 

 idential addresses be on Monday, leaving 

 four days of continual session for section 

 woi'k, and then at the close Saturday is left 

 for excursions. Many of the membei-s, 



however, felt that Tuesday would be the 

 best day for opening, as travel on Sun- 

 day could be better so avoided. After 

 prolonged argument the recommendation of 

 the Council was adopted, and the meeting 

 of 1896 will open at Buffalo at 10 A. M. on 

 Monday, August 24th. It is hoped by this 

 arrangement to avoid the considerable ex- 

 odus of members which takes place under 

 the present ciistom on Friday night. The 

 subject is complicated by the Affiliated So- 

 cieties, which now meet for the most part on 

 Monday prior to the opening of the Associ- 

 ation, and some of whose members desire 

 to get away before it closes. 



The relation of the Affiliated Societies 

 has occasioned an increasing amoiint of dis- 

 cussion, some holding that they are very 

 helpful to the Association, while others see 

 in them a cause of diminishing interest in 

 the Association. A committee was this 

 year appointed to consider -broadly the 

 policy of the Association and its relation to 

 the Affiliated Societies, and to suggest 

 methods of improving the present state of 

 affairs. 



The close of the last session of the Asso- 

 ciation was marked by the presentation of 

 a resolution of thanks, which was seconded 

 with appropriate remarks by a number of 

 members of the Association, and ably re- 

 plied to by ex-Lt. Gov. W . H. Haile. Thus 

 ended a meeting which, if small in number, 

 was nevertheless one of the most successful 

 and helpful meetings which the Association 

 has known. Jas. Lewis Howe, 



General Secretary. 



THE RELATION OF ENGINEERINO TO 

 ECONOMICS.''' 



In the first page of Mr. J. R. McCul- 

 lough's ' Introductory Discourse ' (published 



* Vice-Presidential Address delivered before Sec- 

 tion D, Mechanical Science and Engineering, of the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 at Springfield, Mass., Aug. 29, 1895. 



