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cedent in designating a place for meeting 
well in advance. A week for the meeting 
immediately following the close of the col- 
leges in June has much to recommend it. 
It does not break into summer expeditions, 
summer work and summer vacations as 
does a week in August, and the weather is 
New York City and 
the last week in June will be especially con- 
likely to be favorable. 
venient next year for the large number of 
scientific men who at about that time will 
leave New York to attend the scientific 
congresses of the Paris Exposition. 
The New York members do not propose 
toarrange for a welcome by the Mayor or his 
representative from Tammany Hall; they 
do not think that the Association can do 
much missionary work in the city or that 
the city can offer them entertainments and 
excursions, but they believe that they can 
make good arrangements for the scientific 
work of the sections and of the affiliated 
societies and can welcome the Association 
to a city that has made unusual scientific 
advances since the New York meeting of 
1887. 
and New York have become great univer- 
During these few years Columbia 
sities whose development is fittingly repre- 
sented on new sites by magnificent libraries 
and laboratories; the American Museum 
of Natural History has perhaps quadrupled 
its buildings and collections ; a museum of 
art and antiquities unsurpassed in America 
has been erected ; agreat public library has 
been founded and its building is in course 
of construction; an aquarium has been 
formed, and a botanical garden and a zoolo- 
gical park have been established that are 
preparing to rival the similar institutions 
of the great European cities. 
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Next year for the first time a place in the 
Association will be provided for students of 
physiology and experimental medicine, and 
for the first time the American Mathemat- 
ical Society; the Society for the Promo- 
tion of Engineering Education and prob- 
ably other societies will meet as part of the 
Association ; the address of the retiring 
President will be made by a man honored 
and beloved of all; the meeting will be 
presided over by a leading man of science, 
whose services to the Association have been 
preéminent, and the arrangements will be 
made by a Permanent Secretary who has al- 
It is 
certain that there will be next year in New 
ready proved his wisdom and ability. 
York an excellent meeting, and that it will 
be followed by a series of meetings that 
will make greatly for the advancement of 
science in America. 
ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 
Dr. W. O. THompson, President of the 
Ohio State University, said: Itisagenuine 
pleasure to stand here this morning in the 
name of the Ohio State University, and ex- 
tend a hearty welcome to the American As- 
sociation for the Advancement of Science. 
We welcome you to our grounds, our build- 
ings and our hearts. We pledge you now 
our utmost endeavor to make your stay as 
pleasant as we expect the meetings to be 
profitable. 
There is no place on the continent where 
a company of men deyoted to the study of 
science could be more welcome than at a 
State university. They are the peoples’ in- 
stitutions and have devoted their strength 
and energy to preparing young men and 
women for active participation in the rapidly 
growing civilization about us. 
I need notremind you that the great Or- 
dinance of 1787 was the beginning of public 
