July 6, 1900.] 



SCIENCE. 



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the Council, establishing a section of Com- 

 merce and Manufactures, and giving the 

 Council, under certain conditions, power to 

 change the place and time of meeting. 



At the last general session it was an- 

 nounced that the general committee had 

 elected officers for next year as follows : 

 President. 



Professor Charles Sedgwick Minot, Harvard Medical 

 School. 



Vice-Presidenis. 



Mathematics and Astronomy: Professor James Mc- 

 Mahon, Cornell University. 



Physics : Professor D. D. Brace, University of 

 Nebraska. 



Chemistry : Professor John H . Long, Northwestern 

 University. 



Mechanical Science and Engineering : Professor H. 

 S. Jacoby, Cornell University. 



Geology and Geography: Professor C. E. Van Hise, 

 University of Wisconsin. 



Zoology: President D. S. Jordan, Leland Stanford 

 Jr. University. 



Botany : B. T. Galloway, U. S. Department of Ag- 

 riculture, Washington, D. C. 



Anthropology : J. W. Fewkes, Bureau of Ethnol- 

 ogy, Washington, D. C. 



Economic Science and Statistics ; John Hyde, De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



Permanent Secretary. 

 L. 0. Howard, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C 



General Secretary. 



Professor William Hallock, Columbia University, 

 New York. 



Secretary/ of the Council. 



D. T. McDougal, New York Botanical Gardens. 

 Secretaries of the Sections- 



Mathematical and Astronomy : Professor H. C. 

 Lord, Ohio State University. 



Physics : J. 0. Eeed, University of Michigan. 



Chemistry : Professor W. McPherson, Ohio State 

 University. 



Mechanical Science and Engineering : William H. 

 Jacques, Boston, Mass. 



Geology and Geography : Dr. E. A. F. Penrose, 

 Pierce, Arizona. 



Zoology : Professor H. B. Ward, University of Ne- 

 braska. 



Botany : A . S. Hitchcock, Manhattan, Kansas. 



Anthropology : G. G. McCurdy, Yale University. 



Economic Science and Statistics : Miss C. A. Benne- 

 son, Cambridge, Mass. 



TreasiD'er. 

 Professor E. S. Woodward, Columbia University- 

 Denver was selected as the place of meet- 

 ing for next year, and Pittsburg was recom- 

 mended for 1892. The meeting next year 

 will begin with the session of the council on 

 Saturday, August 24th, and the scientific 

 work will begin on Monday, August 26th. 

 Charles Baskebville, 



General Secretary, 



ADDRESS OF WELC03IE. 

 President Low, of Columbia University, 

 said : Mr. President and Members of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science : It gives me very much pleasure 

 to welcome this Association to the City of 

 New York and to Columbia University. 

 It is thirteen years since this Association 

 met in the City of New York, although it met 

 I believe in 1894 in the City of Brooklyn 

 which has since become a part of this city. 

 In that interval of thirteen years there has 

 been a profound stirring of the scientific spii'it 

 in this vast community. Witness, if you 

 please, the foundation of the Botanical 

 Garden of New York by the co-operation of 

 the City and of private organizations, after 

 the pattern which has shown itself so ef- 

 fective in the case of the Metropolitan 

 Museum of Art and of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. Witness again, 

 the formation of the New York Zoological 

 Garden which is projected upon a scale 

 entirely worthy of this great metropolis ; 

 witness the establishment by the City au- 

 thorities of the Aquarium ; witness the en- 

 largement, until it is three-fold its size of 

 thirteen years ago, of the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History ; all of these things 

 being done either by the City itself as in 

 the case of the Aquarium, or by the City 

 in co-operation with private agencies as in 

 all the other cases. The Universities of 



