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on the 18th of August, under Professor Edward S. Morse, of 

 Salem, as the President. The evening of the same day the 

 retiring President, Professor H. A. Newton, delivered his address, 

 giving a lucid popular exposition of the subject of Meteorites, 

 Meteors and Shooting Stars. The Sections were opened by 

 addresses of the Vice-Presidents: Professor Willard Gibbs, of 

 New Haven, of the Mathematical Section, on Multiple Algebra ; 

 Professor C. F. Brackett, of Princeton^ of the Physical Section, 

 on the Electromotive Force of the Voltaic Cell ; Professor H. C. 

 Wiley, of Washington, of the Chemical Section, on the Economic 

 aspects of Agricultural Chemistry; Professor T. C. Chamberlin, 

 of Beloit, of the Geological Section, on the Glacial Drift ; Mr. H. 

 P. Bowditch, of Boston, of the Biological Section, on Nerve 

 Force ; Mr. O. Chanute, of Kansas City, of the Section on 

 Mechanical Science and Engineering, on Scientific Invention ; 

 Mr. Horatio Hale, of the Anthropological Section, on the Origin 

 of Languages; Mr. Joseph Cummings, of Evanston, of the Section 

 of Economic Science and Statistics, on Capitalists and Laborers. 

 A list of the papers accepted for reading is given below. 



Saturday was given up to excursions, for which the citizens of 

 Buffalo had made liberal provision. Members of the Geological 

 section availed themselves of the opportunity for an exploration 

 of the Niagara gorge; and the forenoon of the following Monday 

 was occupied by them in a discussion of the subject with special 

 reference to its chronological bearings, in which Professor G. K. 

 Gilbert, Dr. Pohlman, Professor E. W. Claypole, Professor 

 Chamberlin, Professor W. M. Davis, and others took part. 



Professor S. P. Langley was elected President for the next 

 meeting of the Association. The Vice-Presidents appointed are : 

 Wm. Feerel, of Washington, for the section of Mathematics ; 

 and Astronomy ; Wm. A. Anthony, of Ithaca, that of Physics 

 A. B. Peescott, of Ann Arbor, that of Chemistry; E. B. Coxe, 

 of Drifton, Pa., that of Mechanical Science and Engineering ; G. 

 K. Gilbeet, of Washington, that of Geology and Geography ; 

 W. G. Faelow, of Cambridge, that of Biology ; D. G. Beinton, 

 of Media, Pa., that of Anthropology; and H. E. Alvoed, of 

 Amherst, Mass., that of Economic Science and Statistics. The 

 place of meeting in 1887 was left to be decided by the Standing 

 Committee. 



List of Papers accepted for Heading. 



Section A. — Mathematics and Astronomy. 



J. Buekitt "Webb : Second differentials and equicrescent variables. 



Thomas Hill : Hirundo — a new curve. 



Wm. A. Rogers: On the degree of accuracy which may be expected from 

 chronograph records. On a method of determining the constants of precession 

 which is partially independent of the variations of the proper motion of the stars 

 employed. 



Wm. A. Rogers and Anna Winlock : On the limitations in the use of Taylor's 

 theorem for the computation of the precessions of close polar stars. 



Am. Jour. Sol— Third Series, Vol. XXXII, No. 190.— October, 1886. 

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