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The American Psychological Association will 

 also meet at the same time and place as the Nat- 

 uralists and will join them in the discussion on 

 the * Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics, ' 

 and at the dinner on Wednesday. Prof. G. S. 

 Fullerton, the President of the Society, will 

 make an address on Wednesday afternoon, and 

 the Committee on Mental and Physical Tests 

 will make a report, which will be discussed by 

 members of the Society. The Secretary is Dr. 

 Livingston Farrand, Columbia University, New 

 York. 



The American Morphological Society also 

 meets in conjunction with the Naturalists. 



The Geological Society of America meets at 

 Washington, D. C, December 29th to 31st, 

 under the Presidency of Prof. Joseph Le Conte. 

 Prof. H. L. Fairchild, Rochester, New York, , is 

 the Secretary. 



An informal conference of members of Sec- 

 tion H, Anthropology, of the American Asso- 

 for the Advancement of Science will be held at 

 Columbia University, New York, at 10 a. m., on 

 December 30th, for the special purpose of dis- 

 cussing the future work and interests of the Sec- 

 tion, and to consider the expediency of recom- 

 mending to the A. A. A. S. the holding of win- 

 ter meetings of Section H. To facilitate the 

 work of the conference, provision has been 

 made for a few papers. ' The Scope of Anthro- 

 pology,' and ' The Relations between Anthro- 

 pology and the other Sciences, ' will be treated ; 

 and it is earnestly requested that members of 

 Section H contemplatiug attendance will pre- 

 pare to participate in the discussion of these 

 subjects either formally or informally. The 

 conference will immediately follow the regular 

 annual meeting of the American Folk-Lore 

 Society, which will be held on December 29th 

 at the same place. 



The New York State Science Teachers' Asso- 

 ciation will hold its first annual meeting at Syra- 

 cuse, N. Y., December 29th to 31st. The Presi- 

 dent, Prof. S. H. Gage, will present a paper on 

 the purpose of the Association and the work it 

 hopes to accomplish, and special discussions 

 have been arranged on the teaching of physics 

 and chemistry, of physical geography and 

 geology, and of botany, zoology and physiology. 



The Association was organized in July during 

 the Buffalo meeting of the National Educational 

 Association, and is intended to unite all teachers 

 of science, from those of the secondary schools 

 to university professors, in order to secure 

 mutual acquaintance and helpfulness. All 

 teachers of science are urged to attend the 

 meeting at Syracuse, which immediately follows 

 that of the Associated Academic Principals of 

 the State. 



A British Association for Child Study has 

 been organized, and has held its first meeting 

 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, under the Presidency 

 of Dr. Oliver. 



The proceedings of the sixth annual meeting 

 of the German Zoological Society, which was 

 held at Bonn, from the 28th to the 30th of May 

 of the present year, has been published by W. 

 Engelmann, Leipzig. It is edited by Prof. J. 

 W. Spengel and contains 210 large pages. 



The Natural Science Association of Stafcen 

 Island held its sixteenth annual meeting on No- 

 vember 14th. The Secretary reported that the 

 number of active members was 85, an increase 

 of 8 over last year, and the Curator reported a 

 number of additions to the collections and to the 

 library. The ofiicers of the preceding year 

 were re-elected, viz : President, Walter C. 

 Kerr ; Secretary, Arthur Hollick ; Treasurer, 

 Thomas Craig ; Curator, H. Cleaver Brown ; 

 Trustee, Wm. T. Davis. The Association has 

 accomplished an admirable work in studying 

 the fauna, flora, antiquities and natural phe- 

 nomena of Staten Island. Interest in science 

 and the progress of science would be greatly 

 forwarded by the formation of similar societies 

 in other places. 



A MEETING of the Committee for the Pro- 

 motion of Agriculture in New York State was 

 held in the house of Mr. A. S. Hewitt, New 

 York, on December 2d. Mr. George T. Powell 

 made a report regarding the work in West- 

 chester county under the auspices of the com- 

 mittee and that accomplished by Cornell Uni- 

 versity. 



There is on exhibition at the American Art 

 Galleries, New York, a collection of butterflies 

 made by Mr. S. W. Denton containing 1300 

 varieties. The collection has been arranged for 



