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give an account of the development of ver- 

 tebrate paleontology, with which Professor 

 ■Cope was so intimately connected. 



Dr. Seth C. Chandler, of Cambridge, was 

 elected Auditor of the Association, to fill 

 the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. B. 

 A. Gould. 



The Permanent Secretary read the letters 

 received from the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science in which it was 

 stated that the General Committee of the 

 British Association had voted to make the 

 officers of the Detroit meeting of the A. 

 A. A. S. honorary members of the B. A. A. 

 S. for the Toronto Meeting, and to receive 

 all fellows and members of the American 

 Association as members of the British As- 

 sociatian for the Toronto meeting by the 

 payment of the regular annual assessment. 

 It was voted that the Permanent Secretary 

 should acknowledge the courtesy of the 

 British Association and at the same time 

 should express the hope that members of 

 the British Association would be present at 

 "the Detroit meeting, calling attention to 

 the provision in the constitution of the 

 American Association relating to members 

 of foreign associations. 



Considerable discussion followed as to 

 the proper method of extending courtesies 

 to such members of the British Association 

 as might take part in the Detroit meeting. 

 It was voted that members of the British 

 Association at Detroit should be invited to 

 register as members of the several sections 

 of the American Association, and that 

 special attention should be paid by the of- 

 ficers of the respective sections to all for- 

 eigners thus registering. 



The Permanent Secretary was instructed 

 to arrange for the delivery of the Vice- 

 Presidential addresses at the Detroit meet- 

 ing in the afternoon as at former meet- 

 ings. 



F. W. Putnam, 



Permanent Secretary, A. A. A. S. 



CONGRESS OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND 

 SURGEONS. 



The fourth triennial session of the Con- 

 gress was held at "Washington on May 4th, 

 5th and 6th. The meeting was well at- 

 tended, as it deserved to be, the proceed- 

 ings of the Congress as a whole and of the 

 separate societies being interesting and 

 profitable. Washington, especially in the 

 spring, is the best possible place for such 

 meetings, and this was recognized by decid- 

 ing to hold the triennial meetings hereafter 

 in that city. The only drawback is the 

 lack of an adequate auditorium, which may 

 be provided in the interval. 



The proceedings of the Congress, as a 

 whole, included several joint discussions. 

 On Wednesday afternoon the Association of 

 American Physicians, the American Phys- 

 iological Society and the American Pedi- 

 atric Society, united in discussing ' In- 

 ternal Secretions considered in their Phys- 

 iological, Pathological and Clinical As- 

 pects.' The other subjects taken into 

 consideration in the general sessions were 

 ' The Gouty and Eheumatic Diatheses 

 and their Relation to Diseases of the 

 Eye,' Otology in its Relations to Gen- 

 eral Medicine,' ' Deformities of the Hip- 

 Joint, especially Congenital Dislocations,' 

 and ' The Classification of Acute General 

 Peritonitis : The Prognosis and Treatment 

 of the Different Varieties. ' 



The address by the President, Professor 

 William H. Welch, on Thursday evening, 

 was entitled, ' Compensatory and Protective 

 Pathological Processes,' and was an admi- 

 rable presentation of the subject, equally in- 

 teresting to the practitioner and to the man 

 of science concerned with the study of 

 adaptations and evolution. The attendance 

 at the meeting was large, although it and 

 the subsequent reception were unfortunately 

 simultaneous with a lecture by Sir Archi- 

 bald Geikie and a reception to him in the 

 rooms of the Geological Survey. Other ar- 



