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southwest, but none at the crater. Halemaumau had again been 

 quietly emptied. 



2. American Association of Chemists. — The Conference of 

 Chemists held in Philadelphia, Dec. 30th and 31st, 1890, decided 

 in favor of the formation of a national organization. It was 

 resolved also that the Conference should recommend to all exist- 

 ing American Chemical organizations that they call a meeting of 

 their bodies to be held in Washington in connection with the 

 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science for 1891 and that each of these organizations be requested 

 to appoint a committee, or to continue their present committee 

 for the further discussion of this subject. 



Further, that this general Conference Committee, be called 

 together at as early a time as practicable before the joint meeting. 



It is proposed that the sub-committees shall formulate such 

 modifications of the Constitution of the American Chemical 

 Society as are deemed necessary to adapt it to the requirements 

 of the Association proposed. Also, that the chairmen of these 

 sub-committees shall then, so far as possible, harmonize the views 

 embodied in these reports of their several organizations and shall 

 have printed for presentation at the joint meeting a report, or 

 majority and minority reports, on a Constitution for the projoosed 

 Association of American Chemists. 



The Chairman of this Conference, with Professors Clarke and 

 Hale, were appointed a committee to select time and place for the 

 meeting of the general Conference Committee. 



3. Audubon Monument. — A committee with reference to the 

 erection of a monument to the memory of Audubon has been 

 appointed by the New York Academy of Sciences, and a design 

 has been prepared, the execution of which, it is estimated, will 

 cost about $10,000. An appeal is made in a circular to the 

 lovers of science in behalf of it, with the hope that the monument 

 may be erected in the fall of 1891. At present the remains of 

 the great naturalist are in Trinity Cemetery, New York City, 

 without a monument over them. Dr. Thomas Egleston is chair- 

 man of the committee and Dr. N. L. Britton secretary and 

 treasurer. 



Maximum Stresses under concentrated Loads treated graphically by Henry T. 

 Eddy, 100 pp. with a folding plate. New York (D. Yan Nostrand Co. — reprinted 

 from the Trans. Amer. Society Civil Engineers). 



The Physicians YisitingList (Lindsay & Blakiston's) for 1891. Fortieth year of 

 its publication. Philadelphia (P. Blakistou, Son & Co.) 1891. 



OBITUARY. 



Alexander Winchell. — Prof. Winchell, acting President of 

 the Geological Society of America at its last meeting in Decem- 

 ber, and President-elect for the year now passing, died on the 

 19th of February at Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was born Dec. 

 31st, 1824, in the town of Northeast, Dutchess Co., N. Y., and 

 graduated at the Wessleyan University, at Middletown, Conn. 



In 1854 Mr. Winchell accepted the professorship of Physics 

 and Civil Engineering in the State University of Michigan, at 



