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I, Economic Science and Statistics — William H. Brewer, ot 

 New Haven, Conn., on The Mutual Relations of Science 

 and Stock Breeding. 



The address of the retiring President, Professor Joseph LeConte 

 of Berkeley, California, upon the Origin of Mountains, was deliv- 

 ered Thursday evening, August 1 7th. 



Saturday was devoted to excursions to several points in the 

 vicinity of Madison, no long excursions being undertaken be- 

 cause of the Scientific Congresses at Chicago, which followed the 

 Association. 



Upon the recommendation of the Geological Section, a stand- 

 ing committee on recording and classifying fossil faunas and 

 floras was appointed by the Association, consisting of Henry S. 

 Williams (chairman), Henry F. Osborn (secretary), Chas. T>. 

 Walcott, Saml. H. Scudder and Arthur Hollick, with power to 

 add to their number. 



The Association elected, as its president for the next meeting, 

 the anthropologist, Dr. D. G. Brinton, of Media, Pa. ; and as 

 officers of Section E, Prof. Samuel Calvin, of Iowa City, Iowa, 

 vice-president, and Prof. W. M. Davis, of Cambridge, Mass., 

 Secretary. The meeting will be held in August, 1894 ; and it is 

 understood that its place, though not decided upon, will be some 

 city in the Eastern States. 



List of papers accepted for reading. 



Section A. Mathematics and Astronomy. 



Frank H. Loud: A construction for the imaginary points and branches of 

 algebraic loci. 



Alex. S. Christie : Upon the latitude variation tide. 



E. W. Hyde : The screw as a unit in a Grassmannian system of the sixth 

 order. 



Alex. Macfarlane: Applications of the generalized logarithmic theorem. 



L. E. Dickson : On the inscriptions on regular polygons. 



C. L. Doolittle: Latitude determination at Bethlehem, 1892-93. 



Geo. C. Comstock: A determination of the constant of aberration by a modi- 

 fied form of the Loewy method. 



Mansfield Merriman : On the possibility of the algebraic solution of the gen- 

 eral equation of the fifth degree. 



S. S. Laws: Space. 



Section B. Physics. 



E. W. Mokley and Wn. A Rogers: Application of interferential methods 

 to measurements of expansion of long bars. 



W. A. Rogers: A preliminary study of the constants of the Morley inter- 

 ferential comparator. On the effect of evaporation upon the relative dimensions 

 of bars of metal partially submerged in water. 



Alexander Macfarlane: On physical addition or composition. 



G. S. Moler: Some rapid changes of potential studied by means of a curve- 

 writing voltmeter. 



E. L. Nichols: Some applications of electric heating in physical laboratory 

 practice. Note on the surface tension of liquids. 



E. L. Nichols and G. S. Moler : An apparatus for the generation of oxygen 

 and hydrogen by electrolysis. 



Ervin 8. Ferry : Note on the use of a rotating disk in photometry. 



