Decesibbe ]3, 1895.] 



SCIENCE. 



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SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



LETTER OF THE LOCAL COMMITTEE OF THE 

 SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Geological Society of America, American Society of 

 Naturalists, American Physiological Society, American 

 Morphological Society, Association of American Anato- 

 mists, American Psychological Association. 



committee: 



Peof. E. D. Cope, Chairman, 2102 Pine Street 

 (Am. Morph. Soc.). 



De. Hoeace Jayne, Treasurer, 19th and Chestnut 

 Streets (Am. Soc. Nat.). 



De. Habeison Allen, 1933 Chestnut Street 

 (Assoc. Am. Anal). 



De. Edw. T. Eeicheet, Univ. of Pa. (Am. Phys. 

 Soc). 



De. W. E. Newbold, College Hall, Univ. of Pa. 

 (Am. Psy. Assoc). 



De. Peesifoe Feazee, Secretary, 1042 Drexel 

 Building (Geol. Soc. Am.). 



Philadelphia, November, 1895. 



Dear Sir: Every member of each of the 

 above Societies will be notified by the appro- 

 priate Secretary of the date of meeting of his 

 Society in Philadelphia. The meetings will 

 be held in the University of Pennsylvania's 

 grounds, either in the College Hall or in the 

 building of the Department of Medicine. 



The headquarters for all visiting members 

 will be the Hotel Lafayette, situated on Broad 

 street below Chestnut, a very short distance 

 from the terminal stations of the Pennsylvania 

 and Reading railroads. Its rates are $1.00 and 

 upward per day on the European plan, $3.00 

 and upward on the American plan. The Bellevue, 

 Sfenton and Stratford, $2.00 to $5.00 (European 

 plan); the Metropole, $1.50 and upward (Euro- 

 pean plan), and the Colonnade, $3.50 (American 

 plan), are near by. The Continental, $1.00'and 

 upward (European plan) to those presenting 

 this circular, and $2.25 and upward (American 

 plan), and the G-irard, also $2.25 (American 

 plan), are both at Ninth and Chestnut streets. 

 The Bingham House, at Eleventh and Market, 

 opposite the Reading terminal station, charges 

 $2.50 (American plan). All these hotels are 

 either directly on or not more than a block 

 from the trolley cars which go directly out to 



the University grounds on Walnut and Market 

 streets and return on Chestnut and Market. 

 The time required from the hotels to the 

 University grounds should be less than 25 

 minutes. 



The Trunk Line Association has granted the 

 usual reduction of one and one-third fares for 

 the round trip to those attending the meeting, 

 and provided with certificates to be obtained 

 from the ticket agents, who sell tickets from 

 the points of departure to Philadelphia at one 

 full fare each. These tickets must state that 

 the object of making the journey is to attend 

 the meeting of the Society at Phila- 

 delphia. The certificates must be vis6d by a 

 representative of the local committee and of 

 the Trunk Line Association, at the College Hall 

 on December 27 or 28. The Secretary of the 

 local committee has given his personal pledge 

 to redeem at full fare any such tickets that may 

 subsequently be found in the possession of 

 'scalpers.' 



In order to facilitate the work, members are 

 requested, as soon as possible after arrival, to 

 register their names and the Society to which 

 they each belong with a clerk who will be in 

 attendance in College Hall. 



A subscription dinner of the members of all 

 the Societies, at $2.00 per plate, will be given 

 at the Hotel Lafayette, on the evening of Fri- 

 day, December 27, 1895. You are requested to 

 send word if you desire to participate in this 

 dinner, and to pay the sum of $2.00 to the 

 Treasurer, Dr. Jayne, or his designated agent 

 in College Hall, not later than noon on De- 

 cember 27, for each place which you wish 

 reserved. 



On Thursday evening, December 26, from 8 

 to 9 o'clock. Prof. Wm. B. Scott, of Princeton, 

 will deliver an illustrated lecture before the 

 visitors at the Hall of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, 19th and Race streets, on ' the history 

 of the lacustrine formations of North America 

 and their mammalian fossils,' after which Dr. 

 Horace Jayne will receive the members of the 

 visiting Societies at his house, 19th and Chest- 

 nut streets. 



Dr. Persifoe Feazee, 

 Sechj Local Committee, 

 1042 Drexel Building, Philadelphia. 



