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expense of clerk hire and the other expenses incident 
to the work of cataloguing the scientific publications 
of the United States, the same to be expended under 
the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian 
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BRITISH ASSOCIATION, TORONTO MEETING. 
Tuer second Canadian meeting of the 
British Association will commence in 
Toronto August 18th, and will continue for 
eight days. Present indications are that a 
very large number of British visitors will 
. be in attendance, amongst whom will be 
found some of the most representative men 
of British science. About twenty Conti- 
nental savants, also of representative char- 
acter, will attend. 
Arrangements have been made by the 
Council of the British Association whereby 
the members of the American Association 
are entitled to become annual members 
of the British Association on the payment 
of a fee of $5.00. Those who are not 
members of the American Association 
can become annual members on the pay- 
ment of $10.00 or associate members on 
payment of $5.00. Arrangements are now 
made whereby the application for mem- 
bership can be made to one of the local 
Treasurers of the Association, Mr. James 
Bain, British Association office. For the 
convenience of Americans who propose to 
attend the Toronto meeting, a list of 
lodgings and apartments as well as a list 
of hotels has been published and copies 
of these may be had upon application to 
the local Secretaries at Toronto. American 
members of the British Association are 
entitled to travel in Canada east of Port 
Arthur at half the usual charge for first- 
class tickets, this privilege beginning on 
July ist and expiring on September 30th. 
In order to enable the members to receive 
this privilege they must be provided with 
what is called a railway certificate, which 
ean be had on personal application to the 
local officers at Toronto or to the railway 
officers at Montreal. The presentation of 
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this certificate at any office will at once 
enable the holder of it to receive reduced 
railway rates. Such members also will be 
entitled to reduced rates for a trip over the 
Canadian Pacific Railway from Toronto to 
points in western Canada. The rate from 
Toronto to the Pacific coast and return 
varies from $61.80 to 70.30, according to 
the route selected. This does not include 
the Pullman fare, for which an extra charge 
will be made. 
The various excursions which are ar- 
ranged for will take place either during the 
meeting from Saturday, August 21st, to 
Monday, August 23d, or immediately after 
it, on Thursday, 26th, 27th and 28th, and 
will be made at reduced rates. The excursion 
to Muskoka, which will be for about four 
hundred, embracing a run of a hundred 
“and ten miles by rail, with a sail over the 
Muskoka lakes, will cost $1.65. The excur- 
sion from Toronto to Niagara will cost $1.25. 
The office of the British Association, will 
be in the University of Toronto building. 
All the meetings of the Association except- 
ing those for the President’s address and 
the two evening lectures, will be held in the 
lecture rooms and laboratories of the Uni- 
versity of Toronto. The President’s ad- 
dress is to be delivered in Massey Hall, 
where also will be given the two evening 
lectures by Professor John Milne and Pro- 
fessor Roberts-Austen. The free lectures 
on Borneo to artisans will be given by Dr. 
H. O. Forbes, in the Horticultural Pavilion. 
According to the scheme of the local 
provisional program, the time of the 
members will be pretty. fully occupied. 
The first General Committee meeting of 
the Association will take place on the after- 
noon of Wednesday, August 18th. The 
President’s address will be delivered on the 
evening of the same day. The Sections 
will meet on Thursday, August 19th, and 
the addresses of the Presidents will be then 
given. In the afternoon of the same day 
