SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XXIII. No. 597. 



The proposed gift will consist of upwards of 

 1,800 volumes and will be forwarded on receipt of 

 advice as to its acceptability and suggestion as 

 to the best time and mode of transmission. 



With hearty wishes for a brilliant future, I re- 

 main, on behalf of the Academy, 

 Yours sincerely, 



Edwabd J. Nolan, 

 Recorder of the Council. 



Washington, D. C. 



May 29, 1906. 

 Resolved, That the Botanical Society of Wash- 

 ington commends the scientific spirit and bravery 

 shown by Miss Alice Eastwood in entering the 

 partially wrecked academy building at San Fran- 

 cisco, California, at the time of the earthquake 

 and fire, and saving the valuable types in the 

 herbarium in the California Academy of Sciences. 

 That we appreciate the forethought and wisdom 

 of having the types previously segregated. 



That the society sends personal congratulations 

 and best wishes for the future of the academy. 



Resolved, That a copy of Miss Eastwood's letter 

 to Dr. Edward L. Greene, giving the details of 

 this occurrence, be filed with these resolutions; 

 and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to 

 Miss Eastwood, and to Science. 

 (Signed) 

 President, M. B. Waite. 

 Vice-president, J. N. Rose. 

 Recording Secretary, C. V. Pipek. 

 Corresponding Secretary, A. S. Hitchcock. 

 Treasurer, Caeleton B,. Ball. 



THE ITHACA MEETINa OF THE AMERICAN 

 ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE. 

 A SPECiAi. summer meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 ■will be held in Ithaca, N. Y., June 28 to July 

 3, 1906, in the buildings of Cornell University. 

 In affiliation with the association there will 

 meet the American Physical Society, the 

 American Chemical Society and the New 

 York Section of the Society of Chemical In- 

 dustry, the Society for the Promotion of En- 

 gineering Education, the American Microscop- 

 ical Society and the American Fern Society. 



general program. 

 The program for the entire meeting will be 

 issued on Friday, June 29. The following 

 events may be announced in advance: 



Thursday, June 28, 1906, at 10 a.m., the 

 register for the Ithaca meeting will be open 

 at the office of the permanent secretary, Ithaca 

 Hotel. 



At 12 M., the regular meeting of the execu- 

 tive committee of the council, consisting of 

 the general secretary, the secretary of the 

 council and the secretaries of the different 

 sctions, will be held in the rooms of the per- 

 manent secretary, at the Ithaca Hotel. 



At 8:30 P.M., informal smoker at the Town 

 and Gown Club. 



Friday, June 29, 1906, at 9 a.m., meeting of 

 the council in the Ithaca Hotel. 



At 10 a.m., first general session of the asso- 

 ciation in the Armory, Cornell University. 

 The meeting will be called to order by the 

 president of the association. Dr. W. H. 

 Welch. Addresses of welcome will be de- 

 livered by Dr. J. G. Schurman, president of 

 Cornell University, by Hon. Andrew D. 

 White and by the mayor of Ithaca. Eeply by 

 President Welch. Announcements by the 

 general, permanent and local secretaries. 

 Agreement on the hours of meeting. 



At 1 P.M., luncheon in the Armory. Ad- 

 journment of the general session, to be fol- 

 lowed by the organization of the sections in 

 their respective halls. 



At 2 P.M., formal opening of Eockefeller 

 Hall, the new Physics Laboratory of Cornell 

 University, with short addresses by eminent 

 men of science. 



At 8 P.M., in Sibley Hall, President David 

 Starr Jordan, of Stanford University, will 

 give an illustrated lecture on the San Fran- 

 cisco disaster. 



Saturday, June 30, 1906, at 9 a.m., meeting 

 of the council in Boardman Hall. 



At 10 A.M., meeting of the sections in their 

 respective halls. 



At 1 P.M., luncheon in the Armory. 



At 2 P.M., meeting of the sections in their 

 respective halls. Afternoon excursions. 



At 8 P.M., a lecture, illustrated with lantern 

 slides, on ' The South African Meeting of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science,' will be delivered in Sibley Hall by 



