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amples of which are in existence. It is 

 also announced that the Museum last year 

 purchased the Ulke collection of Coleop- 

 tera.. Among .other illustrations the report 

 contains a fine view of a remarkable lot of 

 ' cannon-ball ' concretions in Laramie sand- 

 stone. 



It is announced that no less than 843 scholars 

 participated in the Prize Essay Contest, the sub- 

 ject being ' An Afternoon at the Carnegie Mu- 

 seum. ' The successful essay is printed in full 

 and the names and addresses of the other con- 

 testants are given. 



The Annual Report of the President of the 

 American Museum of Natural History for the 

 year 1900 is also at hand. The most evident 

 progress has been made in arranging the ex- 

 tensive anthropological collections of the Mu- 

 seum, and the new West Hall, devoted to the 

 American Indian and Eskimo, was opened on 

 November 1, 1900. 



No less than seven expeditions were sent out 

 during the year to conduct ethnological and 

 archeological researches, including one to 

 Siberia and another to the vicinity of Lake 

 Titicaca. This extended work was made pos- 

 sible through the liberality of friends of the 

 Museum. 



The Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, 

 which completed its first decade in May of this 

 year, comprises in its collections 8,534 speci- 

 mens of. fossil mammals and about 4,000 of 

 reptiles. The most important accessions during 

 1900 were a complete skeleton of the herbivorous 

 dinosaur, Thespesius, and one of a carnivorous 

 dinosaur, several partial skeletons of horses 

 from Texas, and a skull of elephant. 



The attendance during the year was 523,522, 

 an increase of a little more than 65,000 over the 

 previous year. It is announced that the income 

 from the endowment fund is now $20,280, and 

 while this is gratifying it is to be wished that it 

 were ten times as great. For the first time in 

 many years the report contains no illustrations, 

 but this is more than compensated for by the 

 publication of the Museum Journal, which 

 chronicles the current progress of the insti- 

 tution. 



F. A. L. 



THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY* 



The Twenty-Fourth General Meeting of the 

 American Chemical Society will be held in the 

 High-School building, on the block bounded by 

 Nineteenth, Stout, Twentieth and California 

 Streets, Denver, Colorado, Monday and Tues- 

 day, August 26 and 27, 1901. 



The same arrangements as heretofore will 

 prevail between Section C of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science and the 

 American Chemical Society. Monday and 

 Tuesday of the Association week will be de- 

 voted mainly to the sessions of the American 

 Chemical Society, and the remainder of the 

 week to those of Section C. A few minutes 

 will be given to Section C for organization on 

 Monday morning, and in the afternoon the 

 American Chemical Society will adjourn in time 

 to afibrd the opportunity of listening to the ad- 

 dress of the Vice-President of Section C. 



The first session of the Society will convene 

 on Monday morning, August 26, immediately 

 after the organization of Section C of the A. A. 

 A. S., probably at about 11.30 A. M. 



The afternoon session will be called to order 

 at 1.30 P. M , and will be adjourned in time to 

 listen to the address of Vice-President Long 

 before Section C. 



At the close of Vice-President Long's ad- 

 dress, a meeting of the Council and Directors 

 of the American Chemical Society will be held 

 at some convenient place to be announced. 



The hour for the morning and afternoon ses- 

 sions of the Society on Tuesday will be an- 

 nounced on the program. Other arrangements 

 for the meeting will also appear in the official 

 program, or be announced at the sessions of the 

 Society. 



Hotel headquarters for the meeting will be at 

 the Brown Palace Hotel, Seventeenth and Tre- 

 mont Streets. Rates: American plan, $3.00 to 

 $5.00 per day ; European plan, $1.50 up. This 

 hotel is within five minutes' walk of the Den- 

 ver High School Building, and is reached from 

 the Union Depot by the Seventeenth Street 

 electric car line. 



The following is a list of other hotels and 

 boarding houses easily accessible to the Denver 

 High School : 



* Announcement of the secretary. 



