284 .KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
THE THIRTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN 
ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 
This meeting was held at the beautiful and prosperous city of Minneapolis, 
Minnesota, commencing August 15th and closing on the 2 2d. In many respects 
the meeting was a very successful and satisfactory one, though the attendance 
was smaller than usual. Most of the prominent members were present, however, 
and the papers read were fairly up to the standard of previous sessions. 
On Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock the general session of the Association 
met at the University of Minnesota, about two miles from the centre of the city, 
and was called to order by the retiring president, Dr. J. W. Dawson, of Mont- 
real. The chapel was well filled with members of the Association and citizens. 
Seated upon the platform were the past presidents of the Association, the present 
officers, Bishop C. D. Foss, Gov. Hubbard, Mayor Ames, President W. W. 
Folwell, Dr. A. F. Elliott, Mr. C. M. Loring and Geo. A. Pillsbury, of the 
local committee. 
The retiring president, after calling the meeting to order, called to the chair 
the president elect, Prof. C. A. Young, of Princeton. Prof. Young stepped for- 
ward and thanked the Association for the honor conferred and promised to dis- 
charge the duties of the position to the best of his ability. We are met here, he 
said, for an important purpose. We are not here for mere amusement or the gratifi- 
cation of our tastes, but to consider carefully great scientific questions which are of 
political interest and value to the world. We must be industrious, conscientious 
and assiduous in our work and discussions, and give all to our sessions the dignified 
character which becomes us as scientists. We shall do some playing as well as 
much working, and I trust our meeting will be full of interest and of lasting value. 
Bishop Foss then offered prayer, invoking the Divine blessing upon the 
Association, its deliberations and all the varied interests represented by it. 
After this addresses of welcome were made by Mr. Geo. A. Pillsbury, the 
chairman of the Local Committee, Governor Hubbard, Mayor Ames and Dr. 
Folwell, President of the State University, which Were formally and handsomely 
responded to by President Young. 
After some detail business and the reading of the Annual Reports of the 
various officers the meeting adjourned and the several sections met and organized 
for their regular work in the different rooms assigned to them in the University 
building. 
In the evening Prof. J. W. Dawson, LL. D., the retiring president, delivered 
