July 12, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



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point, the person should purchase to the most conven- 

 ient point at which such ticket can be obtained and 

 there repurchase through to the place of meeting, 

 procuring a standard certificate from each agent from 

 lohom a ticket is purchased. 



2d. It is absolutely necessary that certificates be pro- 

 cured, indicating that the fidl fare has been paid for go- 

 ing passage and the route for which ticket or tickets for 

 the return jourmy should be sold. No refund of fare 

 can be expected because of failure to secure such certifi- 

 cates. 



3d. Tickets for the return journey will be sold at 

 one-third the first-class tariff fare only to persons 

 holding certificates of the standard form duly signed 

 by the Permanent Secretary of the A. A. A. S., and 

 signed by the special agent appointed for that pur- 

 pose. 



4th. No certificate will be honored that was pro- 

 cured more than three days (Sunday not included) 

 before the meeting assembles (except that when meet- 

 ings are held at distant points to which the author- 

 ized transit limit is more than three days, the author- 

 ized transit limit will govern), nor more than two days 

 (Sunday not included) after the first day of the meet- 

 ing. No certificate will be honored for return ticket 

 unless presented during the time that the meeting is 

 in session, or within three days (Sunday not in- 

 cluded) after adjournment. 



5th. Tickets for return journey will be limited to 

 continuous passage on first train after purchase. 



6th. Certificates will not be honored by conduc- 

 tors ; they must be presented to ticket agents. 



7th. Neither the certificates nor tickets furnished 

 for this occasion are transferable, and if presented by 

 any other person than the original purchaser, they 

 will not be honored but will be forfeited. 



Members desiring longer time than that 

 allowed in connection with certificate reduc- 

 tion, viz., 3 days before the meeting assembles 

 to 3 days after adjournment (Sunday not in- 

 cluded) are advised to take advantage of the 

 Colorado tourist fares or summer excursions, 

 which, while costing a little more than the fare 

 and one-third, are good from July 10 to October 

 31. 



CORRECTION TO PROGRAM OF MONDAY AFTER- 

 NOON, AUGUST 26. 



(See page 26 of the preliminary announcement.) 

 Thi'ough some clerical or printer's blunder 

 the vice-presidents elect are here announced to 

 give their addresses at 3 o'clock at the high- 

 school building. As a matter of fact, this is all 



wrong. The vice-presidential addresses which 

 will be given are those of four of the retiring 

 vice-presidents, as follows : 



Vice-President Brashear, before the Section of 

 Mechanical Science and Engineering. 



Vice-President Davenport, before the Section of 

 Zoology. 



Vice-President Butler, before the Section of An- 

 thropology. 



Vice-President Woodward, before the Section of 

 Social and Economic Science. 



It will probably be arranged so that two of 

 these addresses will be given at 3 o'clock and 

 two at 4 o'clock, in order to allow members 

 interested to hear two addresses. 



THROUGH PULLMAN SERVICE. 



If a sufficient number of passengers can be 

 guaranteed, arrangements can be made for 

 through Pullman service, to connect at Chicago 

 or St. Louis, so that members from different 

 sections of the country can make the trip to 

 Denver together. The Permanent Secretary 

 therefore invites all members who plan to at- 

 tend the meeting and who wish to take advan- 

 tage of this through Pullman service to com- 

 municate with him at once, stating the name of 

 the road over which they intend to travel and 

 the date of their departure. If a suflScient 

 number of replies are received, the arrangement 

 will be made and members notified. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 Professor James Dewar, the eminent 

 chemist, has been elected president of the 

 British Association to follow Professor A. W. 

 Rticker, and will preside at the Belfast meeting 

 in 1902. 



Oxford University has conferred its D.Sc, 

 on Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., F.E..S. , secre- 

 tary of the Zoological Society, London, and its 

 D.C.L. on C. jST. Dalton, C.B., comptroller- 

 general of patents, designs and trade-marks. 



Dr. John S. Billings, director of the New 

 York Public Library, has been elected president 

 of the American Library Association. 



M. Maupas has been elected a correspond- 

 ent of the Paris Academy of Sciences in the 



