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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. IV. No. 90. 



Prof. Putnam ; ' Eesults of Eecent Cave 

 Exploration in the United States,' by H. C. 

 Mercer ; ' Kootenay Indian Place Names 

 and Names of Implements,' by Prof. A. F. 

 Chamberlain ; ' Clan System of the Pueblos,' 

 by F. W. Hodge. A very suggestive paper 

 by Kev. Dr. Eichert on ' Character and 

 Food.' An account of ' Finland Vapor 

 Baths,' by Mr. H. W. Smith, and an account 

 of certain uses in religious ceremonies of the 

 'Mescal Plant,' by James Mooney. 



The officers elected for next year for this 

 Section are : Vice President, W J McGee, 

 Washington, D. C. ; Secretary, H. I. Smith, 

 New York. G. H. Perkins, 



Secretary. 



Univeesity of Vermont. 



TSE SOCIETY FOB THE PROMOTION OF 

 AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE. 



The seventeenth annual meeting of the 

 Society for the Promotion of Agricultural 

 Science was held at Buffalo, N. Y., in the 

 Public Library Building, on August 21st and 

 22d. The meeting was the most successful 

 one of recent years. Fifteen papers, on the 

 following subjects, were read, most of the 

 authors being present in person: 



W. R. Lazenby. Presidential address. The Relation 

 of Science to Agriculture. 



A. D. Hopkins : On varieties of timothy and red 

 clover. 



Pollen-distributing insects observed on flowers of 

 timothy and red clover. 



V. A. Mooee: The influence of animal experimenta- 

 tion upon agriculture. 



C. C. Geokgeson: Steer feeding experiments at the 

 Kansas Experiment Station. 



L. O. Howakd: a biographical sketch of Dr. C. V. 

 Eiley. 



B. M. DUGGAE (By invitation): SporotricJmm glolu- 

 liferum : White muscardine of the chinch bug eco- 

 nomically considered. 



E. A. DE ScHWEiNiTZ: An anti-toxic serum for hog 

 cholera and swine plague. The production of im- 

 munity to hog cholera by means of the blood serum 

 of immune animals. 



H. L. Bolley: The relation of the time of feeding 

 and the period of development, to the develop- 



ment of rusts and smuts in oats. Also some fur- 

 ther experiments on potato scab. 



F. D. Chestee: Protective inoculation against an- 

 thrax. 



H. C. Ieish (By invitation): Forcing cauliflower 

 with lettuce and cucumbers. 



W. A. Kelleeman (By invitation): New experi- 

 ments with fungicides for smuts of wheat and oats. 



C. E. Bessey: a biographical sketch of Prof. C. L. 

 Ingersoll. 



F. Wm. Eane: Electro-Horticulture: range of incan- 

 descent lamps. 



L. H. Pabimel and F. L. Sceibnee: Notes on 

 grasses collected between Jefferson, Iowa, and 

 Denver, Colorado. 



The old board of officers, composing the 

 following persons, was reelected for the en- 

 suing year: President, W. E. Lazenby, 

 Ohio State University, Columbus, O.; Sec- 

 retary and Treasurer, C. S. Plumb, Purdue 

 University, LaFayette, Ind.; third member 

 Executive Committee, L. O. Howard, De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington. 



C. S. Plumb, 



Secretary. 



BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE.* 

 ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE 

 3IATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL 

 SECTION. 



There is a melancholy reminiscence con- 

 nected with this meeting of our Section, for 

 when the British Association last met in 

 Liverpool the chair in Section A was occu- 

 pied by Clerk -Maxwell. In the quarter of 

 a century which has elapsed since that 

 meeting, one of the most important advances 

 made in our science has been the researches 

 which, inspired by Maxwell's view of elec- 

 trical action, confirmed that view, and revo- 

 lutionized our conception of the processes 

 occurring in the Electro-magnetic field. 

 When the Association last met in Liver- 

 pool Maxwell's view was almost without 

 supporters, to-day its opponents are fewer 

 than its supporters then. Maxwell's theory, 

 which is the development and extension of 



^Liverpool meeting, beginning September 16, 1896. 



