September 6, 1901.] 



SCIENCE. 



549 



President Minot replied in the words pub- 

 lished below. 



At the closing session the permanent 

 secretary read the following report : 



The fiftieth annual meeting of the A. A. 

 A. S., which will be known in the future 

 as the ' Denver Meeting,' or possibly, and 

 let us hope, as the 'first Denver Meeting,' 

 has been a most successful one. There 

 have been in attendance 306 members and 

 associates, making the meeting in this re- 

 gard rank as the 22d largest meeting. 

 What may be termed the geographic dis- 

 tribution of the members in attendance has 

 been interesting. From the Atlantic Coast 

 region there have been 92, or nearly one- 

 third, from the Pacific Coast 11, and from 

 foreign countries 6, leaving two-thirds from 

 the great interior of the country. 



The distribution by States has been as 

 follows : 



Colorado heads the list with 79 



New York 30 



District of Columbia 28 



Iowa 15 



Missouri 14 



Massachusetts 13 



Penn'a., Illinois 12 ea. 



Kansas 17 



California 10 



Nebraska 9 



Indiana 8 



"Wisconsin 7 



Minnesota, Ohio, Connecticut, N. Mexico 5 ea. 

 Wyoming, Canada, Michigan 4 ea. 



Texas 3 



West Virginia, Montana, Arizona 2 ea. 



Georgia, North Dakota, South Dakota, 

 Oregon, Nevada, Oklahoma, New 

 Hampshire, Tennessee, New Jersey, 

 North Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana, 

 England, Ireland 1 ea. 



It must be borne in mind, however, that 

 the number registered, 306, includes only 

 the actual members and associates of the 

 A. A. A. S., and that the great national 

 affiliated societies of specific aim which have 

 met with us have drawn many more sci- 



entific men and women to Denver within 

 the past week, so that it has really been a 

 scientific congress of much importance. 



The papers which have been read before 

 the Association proper and in joint sessions 

 with the more closely affiliated societies 

 have been numerous and of a high order. 

 About 220 in all have been presented. 



A number of important measures con- 

 cerning the future of the Association have 

 been considered. An amendment to the con- 

 stitution providing for the representation 

 in the Council of the affiliated societies 

 seems one of the most important steps 

 taken by the Association of recent years, 

 while other amendments looking towards a 

 more stable membership in the Council 

 have been introduced and will be consid- 

 ered later. 



About 50 new members have been elect- 

 ed during the meeting ; and 186 members 

 have been made fellows. 



Denver and its vicinity have provided 

 visiting points of great scientific interest, 

 and the facts just stated, together with the 

 great courtesy and warm-hearted hospital- 

 ity of the citizens of Denver, have combined 

 to make the meeting now coming to a close 

 a memorable one in the annals of the old 

 Association. 



The members of the Council in attendance 

 were : 



Past President — K. S. Woodward, New York. 



Vice-President of the Colmnbus 3Ieeting — Marcus 

 Benjamin, Washington. 



Vice-Presidents of the New York Bleeting — Wm. 

 Trelease, St. Louis ; Amos W. Butler, Indianapolis ; 

 Calvin M. Woodward, St. Louis. 



Officers for the Denver Meeting — Charles Sedgwick 

 Minot, Boston ; James McMahon, Ithaca ; D. B- 

 Brace, Lincoln ; John H. Long, Chicago ; H. S. 

 Jacoby, Ithaca ; C. E. Van Hise, Madison ; D. S. 

 Jordan, Leland Stanford Jr. University ; B. T. Gallow- 

 way, Washington ; J. Walter Fewkes, Washington ; 

 John Hyde, Washington ; L. 0. Howard, Washing- 

 ton ; J. M. Coulter, Chicago ; D. T. MacDougal, 

 New York ; G. A. Miller, Ithaca ; John Zeleny, 



