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lis. B (Physics), vice-president, H. A. Kowland of 

 Baltimore; secretary, C. K. Wead of Ann Arbor. 

 C (Chemistry), vice-president, E. W. Morley of 

 Cleveland ; secretaiy, J. W. Langley of Ann Arbor. 

 D (Mechanical science), vice-president, DeVolsen 

 Wood of Hoboken ; secretary, [to be ciioseii at meet- 

 ing]. E (Geology and geography), vice-pnsident, 

 C. H. Hitchcock of Hanover; secretary, A. A. 

 Julien of New York. F (Biology), vice-president, 

 W. J. Beal of Lansing; secretary, S. A. Forbes of 

 Normal. G (Histology and microscopy), vice-presi- 

 dent, J. D. Cox of Cincinnati; secretary, C. Seller 

 of Philadelphia. H (Anthropology), vice-president, 

 O. T. Mason of Washington; secretary, 6. H. Per- 

 kins of Burlington. I (Economic science and sta- 

 tistics), vice-president, F. B. Hough of Lowville; 

 secretary, J. Cummings of Evanston. The per- 

 manent secretary is F. W. Putnam of Cambridge; 

 the general secretary (of the meeting), J. E. East- 

 man of Washington ; assistant general secretary, Al- 

 fred Springer of Cincinnati ; and the treasurer, Wil- 

 liam Lilly of Mauch Chunk. 



The headquarters of the association will be at the 

 State university; the hotel headquarters of the per- 

 manent secretary, the Nicollet House. • Members 

 expecting to attend the meeting are requested to 

 notify the local secretary, Prof. N. H. Winchell, 

 Minneapolis, as early as possible. Badges of mem- 

 bership will be distributed to all who register. 



The following are the principal officers of the local 

 committee. Chairman and treasurer, Hon. George 

 A. Pillsbury; secretary. Prof. N. H. Winchell; and 

 chairmen of the several sub-committees, as follows: 

 invitations and reception, President W. W. Folwell; 

 finance, J. C. Seeley, Esq.; transportation and ex- 

 cursions, Thomas Lowry, Esq. ; entertainment, 

 hotels, lodgings, and luncheons, Hon. A. C. Rand ; 

 rooms and places of meetings, Hon. Eugene M. Wil- 

 son; printing, David Blakely, Esq. 



— The annual meeting of the Society for the pro- 

 motion of agricultural science will be held in Minne- 

 apolis, Aug. 13 and 14, just previous to the meet- 

 ing of the American association. 



— It is announced that Lieut. Schwatka, accom- 

 panied by Assistant Surgeon Wilson, C. A. Homan, 

 U. S. engineer corps, and three private soldiers, left 

 for Chilkat, Alaska, May 22, from Portland, Or., on 

 the steamer Victoria. They are provisioned for a 

 six-months' cruise, will employ Indians for packers, 

 etc., and intend to ascend the Chilkat River to its 

 head, make the passage to the head waters of the 

 Lewis River, and descend the same to its junction 

 with the Yukon, and descend the Yukon River to 

 its mouth. It is said to be their intention to sur- 

 vey the course of these rivers ; and there is no doubt 

 that a properly qualified an^ equipped party would 

 find abundance of useful work ready to tlieir hands. 

 The whole route has been travelled before, but not 



by persons in search of, and qualified to obtain, geo- 

 graphical information, except iu very small part. 

 The explorations of the Krause brothers on the Chil- 

 kat and vicinity have been alluded to before. The 

 Yukon has been superficially examined by McMurray, 

 Eetchuni, Zagoskin, Dall, Whymper, Raymond, Nel- 

 son, and others, and a few points have been astro- 

 nomically determined; but nothing lilce an exact 

 map has been attempted, nor do the data for it exist. 

 Astronomical and magnetic observations anywhere 

 along its banks, and especially any data for a map 

 of the Lewis River and its feeders (which are only 

 known from the reports of prospectors and natives), 

 would be of the highest interest. 



— The treasurer of the American committee of 

 the Balfour memorial acknowledges the following 

 additional subscriptions: Prof. L. A. Wait, Cornell 

 university, §.5; Dr. M. J. Roberts, post-graduate 

 medical school, New York, .S5 ; Prof. E. A. Birge, 

 University of Wisconsin, $10; Adam Bruce, Prince- 

 ton college, §4; W. M. Rankin, Princeton college, |2; 

 W. B. Scott, Princeton college, $10; Lyceum natural 

 history, Williams college, $5; classes '83 and '85, 

 Williams college, $10; S. F. Clarke, Williams college, 

 $10; Warren E. Dennis, Newark, N.J., $4; Abraham 

 .Jacobi, New York, $10; T. M. Prudden, New York, 

 S5; L. Waldstein, New York, iglO; William H. Welch, 

 New York, $10; Miss G. A. Lewis, Philadelphia, .$1; 

 Joseph Leidy, Philadelphia, $4; C. S. Minot, Har- 

 vard medical school, §5 ; E. Burgess, Boston society 

 natural lustory, S5 ; J. B. Steere, University of Michi- 

 gan, $4; A. Winchell, University of Michigan, $7; 

 Students' literary department, University of Michigan, 

 $5.70. Previously aclmowledged, $518.25. 



— Mr. A. H. Keane, whose recent appointment as 

 lecturer in Hindustani, at University college, Lon- 

 don, has been raised by the council to full professor- 

 ship, ' in consideration of Mr. Keane's great eminence 

 as a scholar,' has just issued a prospectus for a work 

 entitled ' A classification of the races of mankind,' 

 which will form two large octavo volumes of about 

 six hundred pages each. He aims in it to provide the 

 student of ethnology with a comprehensive treatise on 

 the races of mankind, which shall correspond with the 

 present state of anthropologic knowledge, and super- 

 sede all previous attempts of this sort, however well 

 done. To use his own words, " In the general intro- 

 duction such broad questions will be dealt with as the 

 evolution of man, the antiquity and specific unity of 

 the species, the present varieties of mankind, the 

 physical and moral criteria of race, the fundamental 

 human types, their evolution and dispersion, the 

 peopling of the continents, the origin of articulate 

 speech, the morphological orders and families of 

 speech, the problem of specific linguistic diversity 

 within the same ethnical group." 



He will then deal with the great physical divis- 

 ions of the human family, discussing each of its 



