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don. On indexing the literature of science, B. Pickman Mann. Percentages 

 and costs of nutrients in foods, W. O. Atwater. Brief outlines of the investiga- 

 tions upon the power to move railroad trains 'and the mechanical inspection of 

 railroad tracks, as made by the dynagraph and track inspection car, P. H. Dud- 

 ley. Irregularity in railroad building a chief cause of recent business depressions, 

 William Kent. An account of the first general census of India, Trelawney 

 Saunders. The uses of great expositions, Lyndon A. Smith. American produc- 

 tion for American consumption, J. R. Dodge. A review of the proceedings of 

 the section of economic science and statistics at the Montreal meeting, B. A. A. 

 S., Chas. W. Smiley. Commercial relations of the United States with Spain and 

 her colonies, his Excellency Don Arturo de Marcoartu. The American pearl, 

 George F. Kun2. The philosophy of criminal development, Lewis W. Haupt. 

 An illustration of the results produced by the artificial propagation of fish, Chas. 

 W. Smiley. The education of pauper children, industrially and otherwise, James 

 O. Bevan. On technical education in the British Islands, Henry Hennessy. 

 Natural scheme of high culture in the United States of America, Knut Forsberg. 

 The learned professions and the public, 1870 — 1880, Chas. Warren. The aims 

 and methods of manual training-schools, C. M. Woodward. On the application 

 of the historical method to questions in economic science, T. B. Browning. A 

 new resource for the women of the United States — silk culture, Loren Blodget. 

 Some economic and social effects of machinery, Edward T. Peters. A discus- 

 sion of the principles involved in the general action of vegetation and of trees 

 especially to prevent extremes of temperature, James Hyatt. National identity in 

 its economic aspect, Loren Blodgett. 



THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION AT MONTREAL. 



On August 27th the British Association for the Advancement of Science met 

 at Montreal; the first instance since its organization, fifty-three years ago, that it 

 has ever held a meeting outside of Great Britain. It is a notable association, not 

 only from its present membership and the results of their labors, but also from 

 the fact that it was formed principally through the efforts of such former scientific 

 lights as David Brewster, Humphrey Davy, and John Herschel, whose associates 

 and successors have made it the leading society of the world in all that pertains 

 to science. 



Among the distinguished members present from abroad were : Sir William 

 Thomson, Prof. E. B. Tylor; the astronomer, Robt. S. Ball, of Dublin, Prof. 

 Roscoe, Prof. Dewar, Captain Pitt, Sir Lyon Playfair, Prof. E. H. Schafer, Prof. 

 William A. Tilden, Boyd Dawkins and others of note ; while of the eminent 

 scientists on this side of the water were : Principal J. W. Dawson, and Prof. T. 

 Sterry Hunt, of Montreal, Professors Geo. F. Barker, Mendenhall, Rowland, Asa 

 Gray, Putnam, Newbury, Youmans, Scudder, Minot, etc. 



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