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  Intelligence. 
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  retiring 
  President, 
  Prof. 
  Goodale, 
  on 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  Possibilities 
  

   of 
  Economic 
  Geology 
  makes 
  the 
  opening 
  article 
  of 
  this 
  number. 
  

  

  The 
  Vice-Presidents 
  of 
  the 
  sections 
  appointed 
  are 
  the 
  fol- 
  

   lowing. 
  A, 
  Mathematics 
  and 
  Astronomy, 
  Prof. 
  J. 
  R. 
  Eastman, 
  

   of 
  the 
  Naval 
  Observatory, 
  Washington 
  ; 
  B, 
  Physics, 
  Prof. 
  B. 
  

   F. 
  Thomas, 
  State 
  University, 
  Columbus, 
  Ohio 
  ; 
  C, 
  Chemistry, 
  

   Dr. 
  Alfred 
  Springer, 
  Cincinnati 
  ; 
  D, 
  Mechanical 
  Science 
  and 
  

   Engineering, 
  Prof. 
  J. 
  B. 
  Johnson, 
  Washington 
  University, 
  St. 
  

   Louis 
  ; 
  E, 
  Geology 
  and 
  Geography, 
  Prof. 
  H. 
  S. 
  Williams, 
  Cornell 
  

   University 
  ; 
  F, 
  Biology, 
  Prof. 
  S. 
  H. 
  Gage, 
  Cornell 
  University 
  ; 
  

   H, 
  Anthropology, 
  W. 
  H. 
  Holmes, 
  Ethnological 
  Bureau, 
  and 
  I, 
  

   Economical 
  Science 
  and 
  Statistics, 
  Prof. 
  S. 
  Dana 
  Horton, 
  Pomeroy, 
  

   Ohio. 
  

  

  Prof. 
  Putnam 
  is 
  continued 
  as 
  Permanent 
  Secretary. 
  Rochester, 
  

   New 
  York, 
  was 
  selected 
  as 
  the 
  next 
  place 
  of 
  meeting. 
  

  

  List 
  of 
  papers 
  accepted 
  for 
  reading. 
  

  

  Section 
  A. 
  Mathematics 
  and 
  Astronomy. 
  

  

  A. 
  S. 
  Christie: 
  A 
  digest 
  of 
  the 
  literature 
  of 
  the 
  mathematical 
  sciences. 
  

  

  0. 
  L. 
  Doolittle 
  : 
  Latitude 
  of 
  the 
  Say 
  re 
  Observatory. 
  

  

  Gr. 
  C. 
  Comstock 
  : 
  The 
  secular 
  variation 
  of 
  terrestrial 
  latitudes. 
  

  

  Gr. 
  W. 
  HoLLprE": 
  Groups 
  of 
  stars, 
  binary 
  and 
  multiple. 
  

  

  J. 
  A. 
  Brasiiear: 
  Description 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  spectroscope 
  and 
  spectrograph, 
  

   constructed 
  for 
  the 
  Halstead 
  Observatory, 
  Princeton, 
  N. 
  J. 
  Note 
  on 
  some 
  recent 
  

   photographs 
  of 
  the 
  reversal 
  of 
  the 
  hydrogen 
  lines 
  of 
  solar 
  prominences. 
  

  

  Frank 
  H. 
  Bigelow: 
  Standardizing 
  photographic 
  film 
  without 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  a 
  

   standard 
  light. 
  Exhibition 
  and 
  description 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  scientific 
  instrument, 
  the 
  

   aurora-inclinometer. 
  

  

  David 
  P. 
  Todd 
  : 
  On 
  a 
  modified 
  form 
  of 
  zenith 
  telescope 
  for 
  determining- 
  

   standard 
  declinations. 
  On 
  the 
  application 
  of 
  the 
  " 
  photochronograph 
  " 
  to 
  the 
  

   automatic 
  record 
  of 
  stellar 
  oceultations, 
  particularly 
  dark-limb 
  emersions. 
  

  

  0. 
  T. 
  Sherman: 
  The 
  zodiacal 
  light 
  as 
  related 
  to 
  terrestrial 
  temperature 
  varia- 
  

   tion. 
  

  

  Ormond 
  Stone 
  : 
  On 
  the 
  long-period 
  terms 
  in 
  the 
  motion 
  of 
  Hyperian. 
  

  

  A. 
  Macfarlane: 
  Principles 
  of 
  the 
  algebra 
  of 
  physics. 
  

  

  Henry 
  M. 
  Parkhuhst: 
  The 
  tabulation 
  of 
  light-curves; 
  description, 
  explana- 
  

   tion, 
  and 
  illustration 
  of 
  anew 
  method. 
  Stellar 
  fluctuations; 
  distinguished 
  from 
  

   variable 
  stars 
  ; 
  investigation 
  of 
  frequency. 
  

  

  Thomas 
  S. 
  Ftske: 
  On 
  certain 
  space 
  and 
  surface 
  integrals. 
  

  

  J. 
  Loudon: 
  The 
  fundamental 
  law 
  of 
  electromagnetism. 
  

  

  F. 
  P. 
  Leavenworth 
  : 
  Method 
  of 
  controlling 
  a 
  driving 
  clock. 
  

  

  Wm. 
  E. 
  Heal: 
  On 
  the 
  bitangential 
  of 
  the 
  quintic. 
  

  

  J. 
  E. 
  Kershner 
  : 
  Parallax 
  of 
  a 
  Leonis. 
  

  

  Section 
  B. 
  Physics. 
  

  

  William 
  Hoover: 
  On 
  the 
  logarithmic 
  mean 
  distance 
  between 
  pairs 
  of 
  points 
  

   in 
  any 
  two 
  lines. 
  

  

  E. 
  W. 
  Morley 
  : 
  A 
  new 
  method 
  for 
  measuring 
  the 
  expansion 
  of 
  solids. 
  

  

  E. 
  W. 
  Morley 
  and 
  W. 
  A. 
  Rogers: 
  Measurement 
  of 
  the 
  expansion 
  of 
  Jos- 
  

   sop's 
  steel 
  by 
  a 
  new 
  method. 
  

  

  Gustavus 
  HiNRicns: 
  Statement 
  of 
  the 
  general 
  law 
  determining 
  the 
  fusing 
  

   and 
  boiling 
  point 
  of 
  any 
  compound 
  under 
  any 
  pressure 
  as 
  simple 
  function 
  of 
  the 
  

   chemical 
  constitution 
  of 
  the 
  same. 
  The 
  calculation 
  of 
  the 
  boiling 
  point 
  of 
  a 
  

   liquid 
  under 
  any 
  pressure. 
  Determination 
  of 
  the 
  discontinuity 
  of 
  the 
  fusing 
  

   points 
  of 
  paraffins 
  by 
  means 
  of 
  analytical 
  mechanics. 
  

  

  William 
  Orr 
  : 
  A 
  scheme 
  for 
  a 
  science 
  of 
  color. 
  

  

  