September 4, 1896.] 



SCIENCE. 



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At the request of the National Educa- 

 tional Association a committee was ap- 

 pointed to cooperate with committees from 

 the N. E. A., with a view to unifying the re- 

 quirements in science in secondary schools. 

 The committee named by the Council con- 

 sists of Profs. R. S. Tarr, H. S. Carhart, A. 

 S. Packard, C. F. MaberyandC. E. Bessey. 



Upon the recommendation of Section F, 

 Prof. A. S. Packard was appointed a mem- 

 ber of the American Advisory Board on 

 Zoological Names. 



Upon the recommendation of Section E, 

 the following were named as delegates to 

 the International Geological Congress at 

 St. Petersburg in 1897, with power to fill 

 any vacancy by a majority vote : E. D. 

 Cope, James Hall, B. K. Emerson, W. N. 

 Eice, C. D. Walcott. 



A communication from the American 

 committee upon the proposed monument 

 to Pasteur in Paris was read to the Asso- 

 ciation, with the statement that the funds 

 of the Association did not warrant an ap- 

 propriation. The next day the permanent 

 secretary received a check for $100 from 

 the generous patron of the Association, 

 Mrs. Esther Herrmann, requesting that it 

 be sent as the gift of the A. A. A. S. The 

 treasurer was authorized to receive and 

 transmit other gifts in the same way. 



The officers of Section C were authorized 

 to confer with those of the American 

 Chemical Society in arranging the program 

 of the next meeting. It is understood that 

 the first two days of the meeting will be 

 officially the meeting of the American 

 Chemical Society, but that opportunity will 

 be given for the proper organization of the 

 section and the vice-president's address. 

 The courtesy of reading papers before Sec- 

 tion C is to be extended to members of the 

 A. C. S. and vice versa. Similar arrange- 

 ments were authorized between Section E 

 and the Geological Society of America. 

 The Committee on the Policy of the As- 



sociation has been active in considering steps 

 for its further invigoration. Changes in the 

 form and matter of the volume of proceed- 

 ings, the relation of the affiliated societies, 

 and a number of constitutional amendments 

 permitting greater flexibility in transacting 

 business and arranging for meetings were 

 under consideration by the Council on 

 recommendation by this committee, and it 

 seems likely that some important advances 

 will be made in the near future. 



The place of meeting for 1897 and the 

 relation of the Association to the Toronto 

 meeting of the British Association was 

 found a difficult problem. The invitations 

 for 1897 from Indianapolis, Nashville, Co- 

 lumbus, Detroit, Minneapolis, Seattle, San 

 Francisco, Denver and Toronto were all 

 early placed in the hands of a sub-commit- 

 tee consisting of Professors Carhart, Men- 

 denhall and Galbraith for consideration. 

 Eepresentatives of both Nashville and To- 

 ronto were present. This committee re- 

 ported to the Nominating Committee, which 

 debated the question for two hours, finally 

 determining by about a two-thirds majority 

 upon the following recommendation, which 

 was presented to the Association: 



The Committee recommend that the meeting for 

 1897 be only a formal meeting, that it be held in 

 Toronto on August 17th of that year, and that the 

 Association join in welcoming the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science to the continent of 

 America. 



The recommendation was vigorously op- 

 posed and after a two hours' debate was 

 amended so as to require the meeting for 

 1897 to be a regular meeting, the time and 

 place of which was left to the discretion of 

 the Council. 



The officers elected for the next meeting 

 are : 



PRESIDENT. 



WoLCOTT GiBBS, of Newport, E. I. 



VICE-PKESIDENTS. 

 A. Mathematics and Astronomy — W. W. Beman, of 

 Ann Arbor, Mich. 



