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adjoining the Institute, and thus the members enjoyed an agreea- 
ble social reunion for the hour at noon, and were saved fatigue and 
loss of time. 
The number of persons registered to the close of the meeting 
was very nearly one thousand—(979 to Tuesday evening, Aug. 
31.) The number of papers entered was 280, and 595 new mem- 
bers were elected. The officers of the Association were in tele- 
phonic communication with all parts of Boston and the adjacent 
country ; and members had, free of charge, the use of this 
facility as well as of the lines of the Western Union Telegraph 
Company for all scientific and domestic purposes, over the whole 
country. Among the many good deeds of the Local Committee, 
should be mentioned the distribution among the members of a 
map of Boston and its vicinity, and of a pamphlet containing “ A 
brief account of the Scientific Institutions of Boston and vicinity, 
and a General Guide to the Museum of the Boston Society of 
Natural History,” prepared by the custodian, Mr. Hyatt. 
e meeting was under the Presidency of Mr. Lewis H. Mor- 
GAN, of Rochester, N. Y., widely known for his Archwological 
investigations and memoirs. 
The proper work of the Association commenced at 10 o’clock on 
Wednesday morning. Prof. Wm. B. Rogers, President of the In- 
stitute of Technology, welcomed the Association in a brief and 
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respectively, John M. Ordway of Boston, S. A. Lattimore of 
No papers were read on Wednesday. In the afternoon, at the 
meeting of the Physical Section, Mr. Asap Hatt, Vice President 
address of the retiring President, Professor Gro, F, Barker, “ On 
some modern aspects of the Life-question,” which held a large 
audience with interested attention for an hour. 
The whole of Thursday, August 26, was given to Cambridge. 
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about 900, in Memorial Hall, one of the most extensive and beau- 
