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Association. The total attendance, including 81 in the societies, 

 was 466. The new policy of holding winter meetings, with its 

 obvious advantages and disadvantages, was upheld and the next 

 meeting appointed for Philadelphia, beginning Tuesday, Dec. 27, 

 1904. New Orleans was recommended for the meeting two years 

 hence. The following officers were elected for the Philadelphia 

 meeting : 



President: W. G. Farlow, Cambridge, Mass. Vice-Presidents: 

 Section A, Alexander Ziwet, Ann Arbor, Mich. ; Section B, W. 

 F. Magie, Princeton, .N. J. ; Section C, L. P. Kinnicutt, Worces- 

 ter, Mass. ; Section D, D. S. Jacobus, Hoboken, N. J. ; Section 

 E, E. A. Smith, University of Alabama ; Section F, C. Hart 

 Merriam, Washington, D. C. ; Section G, B. L. Robinson, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. ; Section H, Walter Housjh, Washington, D. C. : 

 Section 1, M. A. Knapp, Washington, D. C. ; Section K, H. P. 

 Bowditchof Boston. General Secretary, Charles S. Howe, Cleve- 

 land, Ohio. Secretary of the Council, C. A. Waldo, Lafayette, 

 Indiana. 



2. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Year Booh, No. 2, 

 1903. Pp. lix, 311. Washington, January, 1904 (published by 

 the Institution). — This second volume from the trustees of the 

 Carnegie Institution will be widely welcomed since all the facts in 

 regard to the administration of this fund cannot but be of great 

 interest to every one concerned with the progress of scientific 

 research of the country. It is a matter of general congratula- 

 tion that this unique work has been initiated and thus far carried 

 on with so much liberality and wisdom. The opening part of the 

 volume (pp. i-lix) contains administrative matters including the 

 minutes of the Board of Trustees, the Report of the Executive 

 Committee on the work of the year and memorials of Abram S. 

 Hewitt, William E. Dodge and Marcus Baker. Following this 

 are a series of seven papers including reports on southern and 

 solar observatories, reports relating to geophysics, original 

 memoirs in several departments. 



The list given of the grants, aggregating nearly sixty, made 

 during the year out of the sum of $200,000 set apart by the 

 Trustees at its last annual meeting, shows the wide range of 

 scientific inquiry aided by the Carnegie Institution ; with each 

 statement a brief account of the results thus far obtained is 

 included. It is interesting to note that the demand upon the 

 funds of the Institution is much greater than it can meet ; thus it 

 is stated that from the beginning until Oct. 3 1 , 1903, the total num- 

 ber of requests for aid was 1,042 and these called for an expendi- 

 ture of *2, 200,3 98. To this sum are to be added the grants 

 recommended by the Advisory Committee aggregating $911,500, 

 thus giving a total possible expenditure of $3,11 1,898. Although 

 but a small part of the demands for assistance in research can be 

 favorably acted upon, the total amount of good that may be 

 expected from the money actually paid out is very large indeed. 



3. Physihalisch-chemisches Centralblatt. — The first number of 

 the Physico-chemical Review, announced on p. 475 of the last 



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