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III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. American Association for the Advancement of Science — 

 New York Meeting. — The forty-ninth meeting of the American 

 Association was held in New York City, during the week from 

 June 25 to 30. The President of the meeting was Professor 

 R. S. Woodward. The attendance was satisfactorily large, though 

 perhaps not so numerous as the time and place of meeting might 

 have seemed to promise; the total registration was about 450. 

 In scientific spirit, however, the occasion was highly successful, 

 the number of the papers presented being large and their char- 

 acter and interest above the average. The sessions of the 

 Association were held in the buildings of Columbia University 

 and the efforts of the officers of this institution and of those of 

 the American Museum of Natural History contributed largely to 

 the general success of the meeting. 



The retiring President, Mr. G. K. Gilbert, delivered on Tues- 

 day evening an admirable address upon the subject *' Rhythms 

 and Geologic Time." Other addresses were delivered by the 

 Vice Presidents of several of the sections, as follows : Section A, 

 on the teaching of Astronomy in the United States, by Asaph Hall, 

 Jr. ; Section B, on the Cathode Rays and some related phenomena, 

 by Ernest Merritt; Section C, on the eighth group of the Periodic 

 System and some of its problems, by Jas. Lewis Howe ; Section 

 D, on Some Twentieth Century problems, by William Trelease ; 

 Section E, on Precambrian sediments in the Adirondack?, by J. F. 

 Kemp. These addresses are published in full in Science (issues 

 of June 29 and following). In addition to the work before the 

 different sections, fifteen affiliated societies had meetings in con- 

 nection with the Association, and this fact added much to the 

 scientific interest of the occasion. 



The place selected for the meeting of 1901 is Denver, Colorado : 

 the meeting will begin on Monday, August 26th. Pittsburg was 

 recommended for the meeting of 1902. The officers elected for 

 next year are as follows : 



President : Charles S. Minot, Harvard Medical School. 



Vice-Presidents: Section A, James McMahon, Cornell Uni- 

 versity ; Section B, D. D. Brace, University of Nebraska ; 

 Section C, John H. Long, Northwestern University; Section D, 

 H. S. Jacoby, Cornell University ; Section E, C. R. Van Hise, 

 University of Wisconsin; Section F, D. S. Jordan, Leland Stan- 

 ford University ; Section G, B. T. Galloway, U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington ; Section II, J. W. Fewkes, Bureau 

 of Ethnology, Washington ; Section I, John Hyde, Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington. 



Permanent Secretary, L. O. Howard of Washington ; General 

 Secretary, William Hallock, Columbia University ; Treasurer, 

 R. S. Woodward, Columbia University. 



2. British Association for the Advancement of Science. — The 

 coming meeting of the British Association will be held at Brad- 



