352 Scientific Intelligence. 
III]. MiIscELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1. American Association for the Advancement of Science.— 
The forty-fourth meeting of the American Association was held 
at Springfield, Mass., from August 28 to Sept. 4. The President 
of the meeting was Prof. Edward W. Morley of Cleveland. In 
the absence of the retiring President, Dr. D. G. Brinton, his 
address on the Aims of Anthropology was read by the General 
Secretary. Addresses were also delivered before the several sec- 
tions, by their respective Vice-Presidents. The attendance at the 
meeting was not large, under four hundred, but the papers pre- 
sented were numerous, as shown in the list given below, and the 
general success of the meeting was regarded as satisfactory ; this 
was largely due to the excellent arrangements made by the local 
committee. 
The next meeting was appointed for August, 1896, at Buffalo, 
‘N. Y., and Professor E. D. Cope was chosen President. The 
Vice-Presidents elected for the several sections are as follows: 
Section A, Wm. E. Story of Worcester, Mass.; Section B, Carl 
Leo Mees of Terre Haute, Ind.; Section C, W. A. Noyes of 
Terre Haute, Ind.; Section D, F. O. Marvin of Lawrence, 
Kansas; Section /, B. K. Emerson of Amherst, Mass.; Section 
F, Theodore N. Gill of Washington; Section G, N. L. Britton 
of New York City; Section H, Alice C. Fletcher of Washington ; 
Section I, W. R. Lazenby of Columbus, O. 
The following is a list of the papers accepted for reading 
before the several sections. 
SEcTION A. Mathematics and Astronomy. 
J. B. SHaw: Development of some useful quaternion expressions, with applica- 
tions to geometry of three and four dimensions. 
C. L. DoourrrLe: The constant of aberration. 
S. C. CHANDLER: On the constant of nutation. 
A. N. SKINNER: Progress of the zone work at the Naval Observatory, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 
L. A. BavuserR: On the distribution and the secular variation of terrestrial 
magnetism. 
M. A. VEEDER: Sunspots and magnetic storms. 
EpwIn B. Frost: The spectrum of $ Lyre. 
ARTEMAS Martin: Notes on square numbers whose sum is either a square or 
the sum of other squares. 
ALBERT 8. Fuint: Some results for stellar parallax from meridian transit 
okservations at the Washburn Observatory. 
Mary Proctor: Making astronomy popular. 
EDGAR FrRisBy: A convenient formula for computing times of moon rising. 
On a slide scale for computing precession. 
SAMUEL W. BALCH: Chronology and ancient eclipses. 
H. M. PAarkuurst: Period of R Come. 
SECTION B. Physics. 
M. I. Pupin: Flow of alternating current in an electrical cable. The most 
general relation between electric and magnetic force and their displacements. 
J. H. Pittspury: The significance of color terms. On standard colors. The 
analysis of floral colors. 
FRANK P. WuitMAN: On the comparison in brightness of differently colored 
lights and the “flicker” photometer. 
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