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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol.. XVIII. Xo. 460. 



Honorai-y Scieutific Society will be given 

 at the Mercantile Club, Seventh and Locust 

 Streets, at seven o'clock. The banquet will 

 be followed by an address by President 

 ])avid Starr Jordan, of the Leland Stan- 

 ford Junior University. Members are re- 

 •quested to register and procure tickets for 

 the banquet, at the desk of the local secre- 

 tary, as soon as possible after arriving in 

 St. Louis. 



Friday Evening.— The fourteenth ban- 

 quet to the Tri;stees of the Missouri Bo- 

 tanical Garden and their guests, provided 

 for in the will of the founder of the garden, 

 will be given at an hour and place to be 

 jmnouneed later. 



ENTERTAINMENTS. 



In providing entertainment for their sci- 

 entific guests, the local committee has tried 

 to avoid interference with the regular ses- 

 sions of the association and affiliated so- 

 cieties, and the season of the year at which 

 the meeting is held and the need of a 

 prompt return to their university duties 

 felt by most of their guests have prevented 

 the committee from planning for excur- 

 sions such as they would have found plea- 

 sure in providing under other circum- 

 stances. They take pleasure, however, in 

 announcing the following features, which 

 will be more fully detailed in the daily 

 programs. 



By invitation of the officers of the 

 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, members 

 of the association and affiliated societies 

 will, on one of the days of their meeting, 

 proceed in specially provided cars to the 

 World's Fair grounds, immediately after 

 the noon adjournment. On the grounds, 

 they will be tendered a buffet luncheon by 

 the officers, of the exposition, after which, 

 in parties of suitable size, they will be 

 taken through the buildings and shown 

 the progress of installation of the exhibits 

 under the personal charge of the chiefs of 



departments, under whom the installation 

 is being made. 



The chemists are invited to visit the 

 great breweries, either in a body or as indi- 

 viduals, and promised every courtesy in 

 inspecting these and other features of in- 

 terest to them. 



The geologists will receive every possible 

 courtesy from the managers of the smelting 

 and similar establishments of the city 

 which they may find it possible to visit, 

 and it is probable that those who care to 

 do so will have the privilege of visiting the 

 great lead mines of southeastern ^Missouri, 

 if they can spare a day for this purpose. 



The engineers will be enabled to visit the 

 historical Eads Bridge over the Mississippi 

 River, the pumping plant and settling 

 basins fui'nishing the citj^ water supply, 

 and other points of interest to them, as well 

 as the engineering features of the exposi- 

 tion, of which a special study will be made. 



The botanists are invited to visit the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden, either in a body or 

 individually, and are promised every aid 

 that can make their visit pleasurable or 

 profitable. 



In addition to the address by the presi- 

 dent of the American Association, to be 

 given in the Odeon on Monday evening, it 

 is expected that one other public lecture, 

 complimentary to the citizens of St. Louis 

 will be delivered on another evening by 

 a speaker of international reputation on a 

 subject of both scientific and general in- 

 terest. 



The entertainment conunittee proposes 

 to furnish luncheon in the high school 

 building, so that members may meet to- 

 gether and without being under the neces- 

 sity of leaving the building for this pur- 

 pose. It is expected that courtesies will 

 be extended by a local ladies ' club to ladies 

 in attendance at the meetings, and the city 

 clubs, the trustees of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden, the Academy of Science, and other 



