Januaey 12, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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GRANTS. 



$200 were allotted by the committee on grants 

 to Messrs. Parsons, Kinnicutt and Venable to 

 assist in the publication of Professor Parson's 

 ' Bibliography of Beryllium.' 



$100 were allotted to ' The Concilium Biblio- 

 graphicum Zoologicum.' 



RESOLUTIONS. 



Preservation of Niagara Falls. 



As has been well said by President 

 Koosevelt in his message to the fifty-ninth 

 congress, 'there are certain mighty natural 

 features of our land which should be pre- 

 served in perpetuity for our children and 

 our children's children.' Chief among 

 these natural wonders in the east is Niagara 

 Falls, the continuance of which as a scenic 

 feature is now seriously threatened by the 

 use of the water for the production of elec- 

 tric power. Authorities agree that grants 

 to existing corporations for power pur- 

 poses will, when the now rapidly proceed- 

 ing work of development is completed, 

 entirely destroy the American fall, also 

 making useless the magnificent New York 

 State Reservation which has so well pre- 

 served the natural beauty of the cataract's 

 surroundings. 



President Roosevelt further suggests 

 that if the state of New York can not 

 promptly take action to avert this impend- 

 ing calamity, 'she should be willing to turn 

 it over to the national government, which 

 should in such case (if possible, in conjunc- 

 tion with the Canadian government) as- 

 sume the burden and responsibility of pre- 

 serving unharmed Niagara Falls.' 



Therefore be it Resolated That the 

 American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science hereby records its hearty 

 concurrence in these suggestions of Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt, and instructs its president 

 and secretary to communicate to the presi- 

 dent of the senate and to the speaker of 

 the house of representatives of the United 

 States its strong conviction that Niagara 



Falls should be preserved as a natural 

 wonder, and further expressing the earnest 

 hope that the congress now in session will 

 take prompt and energetic action looking 

 toward an international consideration of 

 the impending danger to Niagara Falls. 

 And further, be it 



Resolved, That each member of the Am- 

 erican Association for the Advancement of 

 Science is hereby urged to write to the 

 senators and congressmen of his own state, 

 earnestly favoring immediate action for 

 the preservation of Niagara Falls. 



An Appalachian Forest Reserve. 



Resolved, That the American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, now 

 in session at the city of New Orleans, again 

 respectfully calls attention to the rapid rate 

 at which the forests of the Appalachian 

 Mountain region are being destroyed, and 

 to the fact that, as a result of such de- 

 struction, the streams tributary to the 

 Missisippi, as well as those flowing into 

 the south Atlantic, are becoming continu- 

 ously more irregular in their flow, and 

 hence of less value for navigation and 

 power purposes. 



Resolved, That the association, therefore, 

 respectfully petitions the congress of the 

 United States to make such provision as 

 may be necessary for the protection of 

 these mountain forests, and directs that 

 copies of these resolutions be transmitted 

 to the honorable, the secretary of agricul- 

 ture, and to the honorable, the speaker of 

 the house of representatives. 



The above resolution was unanimously 

 approved by Section 6, American Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, at the 

 meeting of December 30, 1905 ; also re- 

 ported recommended by Section I. 



AMENDMENTS. 



The following amendments to the con- 

 stitution were proposed and are to be acted 



