530 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Professor O. C. Marsu, and the Vice-Presidents R. H. Tuursron, 
of Hoboken, and A. R. Grote, of Buffalo, The meeting was a 
successful one, although the attendance was not so large as usual, 
owing to the extreme “heat and the fear _ the yellow fever. 
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others, who made most satisfactory arrangements for the enter- 
faliiment ot the members, and for the sessions of the Association. 
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Saturday, the 24th of August, to Iron Mountain and Pilot Knob ; 
and, at the close os ne page there was an excursion to Colo- 
rado, to occupy a 
resses were vael pveded Wednesday pds cS si Professor 
R. H. Thurston, Vice-President of Section A, on “Science of 
the Advancement of Science ;” and by A. R. dae bbe 
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Section C, on “The Cultivation of Chemistry.” he address of 
the retiring President, Professor Simon Newcomb, delivered 
ursday evening, on “The Course of Nature,” was a ‘phi osophi- 
cal disoourae of more than ordinary interest. 
next meeting is to be held in Saratoga on the last Wed- 
The following i is a list of the weg which were read, or accepted 
for reading, in the several section 
I. Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics. 
Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light, A. A. MICHELSO 
An improved Method of anes a Bell in an Exhausted Receiver, T. R “BAKER. 
On the Sopot wee of Steam, . SM 
On the of a Sensitive Wind-vane, J. W. Ossorne.—On Wind-vane 
i laieriad ce of Meteorological Observations in ical Sec- 
tion of the Fein with the suggestion of means for their pens accom- 
On Friction Mesartomeus and its Laws, as determined by Recent gf 
Ti a wider range of Conditions than have been previously pl R. 
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Magnetic ic Determinations i in Missouri, F. E. Nieuer.—Rain determinations 00 
Roofs, id 
To 
aterspouts and Hailsto: 
On Finding is Ditisrental ofa Variable pions a ith the use of Infinitesi- 
mals or = Pier gt FIck1in, 
Work cbs by the Fort Worth Solar Eclipse Party, J. K. REEs. 
e of Fracture of Tool Steel, W. Kent. 
