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shall, W. Doberck, R. Munro, R. Gowing, 
A.B. Macallum, A. G. Vernon—Harcourt, 
W. Duddell, J. L. Myres, A. Penck, HE. B. 
Poulton and Prince Krapotkin. There 
were elected 126 new members, and 50 
members were made fellows. 
On account of the death of retiring Presi- 
dent Cope, the Monday morning session was 
opened by Dr. Theodore Gill, the senior 
Vice-President of the Buffalo meeting. He 
introduced W J McGee, acting President 
of the Detroit meeting and serving in the 
place of Dr. Wolcott Gibbs, who was ill 
and was forbidden by his physician to be 
present. The vacancies in the chairman- 
ships of Sections F and H, Zoology and 
Geology, caused by the decease of G. 
Browne Goode and the absence of Professor 
White, were filled by the selection of L. O. 
Howard and EH. W. Claypole. 
Besides the morning meetings, the Coun- 
cil held three long evening sessions. It 
was urged very strongly that the methods 
of business procedure of the Association 
needed to be simplified, and as the first 
step in this direction certain amendments 
proposed before the general session in 1896 
were recommended for passage by the As- 
sociation and after presentation to it weré 
passed. These amendments leave the se- 
lection of officers and the fixing of the place 
of meeting wholly in the hands of the 
Nominating Committee. Also, the power 
of Council was somewhat extended, the 
plan being to give it still further powers. 
Section H, Anthropology, was granted 
permission by the Council to hold a winter 
meeting. 
Messrs. Colburn, Morse, Prescott, Wood- 
ward and Howard were appointed a com- 
mittee to secure uniform nomenclature in 
scientific terms used in commerce. A 
report prepared by Mr. Colburn was ac- 
cepted by the committee, and the Council 
ordered the report to be printed by the 
Permanent Secretary. 
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The movement to raise funds for a statue 
of Gallileo Ferraris was recommended to 
the favorable consideration of the Associa- 
tion. 
The action taken at the Buffalo meeting, 
whereby the annual volume was consider- 
ably abridged, was repealed. 
A grant of $100 from the research fund 
was made to the marine biological labora- 
tory at Woods Holl, the committee on the 
laboratory for 1898 to consist of the out- 
going and incoming Vice-Presidents of Sec- 
tions F and G, together with the director of 
the laboratory. 
The following were appointed a com- 
mittee on extending the influence of the 
Association into the secondary schools: HB. 
S. Morse, W. Orr, Jr., T. C. Chamberlin. 
The special committees of the Association 
were continued, the personnel of 4, on the 
policy of the Association, being changed 
slightly, so as to consist of the President, 
Permanent Secretary and Treasurer, ea- 
officio, together with Messrs. L. O. Howard, 
W. H. Brewer, T. C. Mendenhall and 
Mansfield Merriman. No report was re- 
ceived from 6, on standard colors and 
standard nomenclature of colors, but it 
was understood that much work had been 
done by the committee. 
On Friday morning, in general session, 
the resignation of Permanent Secretary 
Putnam was announced. Also, the selection 
of Boston as the place of meeting for 1898, 
the jubilee year of the Association. Also, 
the choice of the following officers for 1898: 
President—F. W. Putnam, Cambridge, 
Mass. 
Permanent Sccretary—L. O. Howard, 
Washington, D. C. 
General Secretary—D. S. Kellicott, Co- 
lumbus, O. 
Council Secretary—F. Bedell, Ithaca, N. 
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Treasurer— R. S. Woodward, New York. 
Vice-Presidents—Mathematies and As- 
