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by others of the foreign guests. All this gave a certain interest to the 
meeting which is not likely to be surpassed in kind for many a year. 
Two of the permanent committees offered extended reports: one on 
weights, measures, and coinage, the outcome of which was a series of 
resolutions passed unanimously, deprecating any revival of the double 
standard of value in this country; the other on zodlogical nomenclature, 
where the committee reported an irreconcilable difference of view on 
certain points and propounded a series of inquiries for discussion at a 
future meeting. This report was referred to Section B, which appointed 
a special committee to print and distribute the report, with a view of ob- 
taining the written opinion of naturalists at large upon the questions 
involved. 
The association took the initiative in proposing an international con- 
gress of geologists at Paris in 1878, “ for the purpose of getting together 
comparative collections, maps, and sections, and for the settling of many 
obscure points relating to geological classification and nomenclature.” 
The committee appointed to attend to the matter consists of Professors 
Rogers, Hall, Hitchcock, and Pumpelly, and Drs. Dawson, Newberry, 
and Hunt; and Drs. Torell and von Baumhauer and Professor Huxley 
were added to represent the purpose of the association in Europe. 
Two hundred and five members and fellows entered their names upon 
the register, and one hundred and forty-two new members were elected ; 
seventeen fellows were added, among them Dr. E. B. Andrews, Mr. L. 
S. Burbank, Dr. E. Coues, Dr. C. Rau, and Prof. Daniel Wilson, of the 
Natural History Section. 
All of the addresses were able and were listened to with marked at- 
tention. Ex-President Hilgard spoke of the History and Progress of 
Geodetic Science ; Vice-President Young of Section A treated of his own 
department of Solar Physics; Chairman Barker of the chemical sub- 
Section explained the modern scientific ideas concerning the atom and . 
the molecule. Mr. Morgan disappointed those of the anthropological 
Subsection who had looked to their chairman for an address, but he cer- 
tainly made up for the omission by the number and value of papers on 
the Iroquois with which he afterwards favored them ; indeed, the new 
evolution, the only fault to be found with which was that it needed a 
_  Pplementary notice by another to sh 
done. It would almost seem as if this address had given the key-note 
: " the sessions of the section, for comparatively few papers were pre- 
sented which did not at least show with how powerful an influence the 
Setrine of evolution had possessed the thoughts of the speaker ; and, 
a remarked by Professor Morse on closing the sessions, so far were 
_ “volutionary views from eliciting a storm of dispute, as would have been 
