APRIL 12, 1901.] 
den Robb, D. Willis James, Sam’] Sloan and 
John J. McCook. This committee has issued 
the following appeal : 
The Council of the Scientific Alliance of New York, 
composed of delegates from the New York Academy 
of Sciences, the Torrey Botanical Club, the New York 
Microscopical Society, the Linnean Society of New 
York, the New York Mineralogical Club, the New 
York Section of the American Chemical Society and 
the New York Entomological Society, is endeavoring 
to obtain by subscription a fund for the erection of a 
building for the use of these societies and others join- 
ing the Alliance. 
The building is needed as a common meeting-place 
for the societies, which now occupy rooms in various 
parts of the city, for the housing of their libraries, 
which are now widely scattered, for a large lecture 
hall, for laboratories and other rooms for scientific 
research, and as a central point of influence upon 
the community. 
The scientific societies are about the only agencies 
of modern culture for which permanent homes have 
not been provided in the Metropolis. In this respect 
New York is strangely behind many smaller cities 
in the United States, and suffers still more in com- 
parison with the great cities of Europe, most of 
which have creditable buildings devoted to the use 
of such organizations. As much original scientific 
research is carried on in the city of New York as in 
any other city of the United States, and only public 
encouragement and support of its already very efficient 
societies are needed to make New York the scientific 
center of the country. 
The Council of the Scientific Alliance has been in- 
corporated by a special act of Legislature, with power 
to acquire real estate and to receive bequests. It 
holds as a nucleus for the present undertaking the 
sum of $10,000, contributed by Mrs. Esther Herr- 
man, and a number of smaller subscriptions. It is 
estimated that Jand can be purchased and a suitable 
building erected and equipped for the sum of $500,- 
000, which it is the aim of the Alliance to raise. 
The undersigned Committee of Cooperation with 
the Council commend the undertaking and urge all 
public-spirited citizens to unite with them in the en- 
deavor to bring it toa speedy realization. Subscrip- 
tions will be received by the chairman of the Com- 
mittee or by any member of the Council. 
MEMBERSHIP IN THE NATIONAL ACADEMY 
OF SCIENCES. 
IN view of the fact that the National Acad- 
emy of Sciences is about to hold its annual 
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meeting at which new members are elected, it 
may be of interest to give the members of the 
Academy who have died and who have been 
elected during the past ten years. 
Deuths. Elections. 
1891. 
Julius E. Hilgard, None. 
John Le Conte, 
Joseph Leidy, 
Miers F. Longstreth. 
1892. 
Carl Barus, 
S. F. Emmons, 
M. Carey Lea. 
T. Sterry Hunt, 
Joseph Lovering, 
J.S. Newberry, 
Lewis M. Rutherfurd, 
William P. Trowbridge, 
Sereno Watson. 
1893. 
W. H. C. Bartlett, None. 
F. A. Genth. 
1894. 
Charles E. Brown-Sequard, None. 
Josiah P. Cooke. 
1895. 
James D. Dana, W.L. Elkin, 
John Newton, C. 8. Sargent, 
James E. Oliver. W. H. Welch, 
C. O. Whitman. 
1896. 
Thomas L. Casey, 
G. Brown Goode, 
Benjamin A. Gould, 
H. A. Newton. 
C. D. Walcott, 
R.S. Woodward. 
1897. 
KE. D. Cope, WwW 
M. Carey Lea, F. 
A. M. Mayer, Cc 
J. H. Trumbull, 1D; 
F. A. Walker, 
Theodore Lyman. 
1898. 
James Hall, None. 
William A. Rogers. 
1899. 
Charles E. Beecher, 
Geo. C. Comstock, 
Theodore W. Richards, 
Edgar F. Smith, 
Edmund B. Wilson. 
O. C. Marsh. 
1900. 
James E. Keeler, Franz Boas, 
Fairman Rogers. James E. Keeler, 
H. F. Osborn, 
Samuel L. Penfield. 
