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read have already been entered. A number of the older members 
of the association, several of whom were unable to attend the 
western meetings, have intimated their intention to be present, 
which will add much to the scientific results of the session. The 
entomologists are also anticipating a full attendance, and anthro- 
pology will probably be well represented, while geology and gen- 
eral zoology will unquestionably be maintained in their usual 
force. Botany has for many years been but slightly represented, 
to the regrets of workers in other fields. Will not the botanists 
show their force this year? Section A will probably be largely 
represented, as heretofore, by many distinguished scientists. Par- 
ticulars relating to the meeting are given in our advertising pages. 
Ar the late Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Sci- 
ence and Arts, Boston, Prof. Asa Gray resigned the chair of Pres- 
ident which he had held for the past ten years. The following 
officers were elected :— President, Hon. Charles Francis Adams; 
Vice President, Prof. Joseph Lovering; Cor. Sec’y, Prof. J. P. 
Cooke, Jr; Rec. Sec’y, Prof. E. C. Pickering; Treasurer, H. G. 
Denney; Librarian, Edmund Quincy; Council: Class I, Prof. 
Benj. Peirce, Prof. Wolcott Gibbs and J. B. Henck; Class II, 
Alex. Agassiz, Prof. Asa Gray (in place of Prof. J. Wyman 
who declined reélection), and Dr. Charles Pickering; Class III, 
Rey. G. E. Ellis, Hon. R. C. Winthrop and Prof. A. P. Peabody. 
Scrence in Europe has met a great loss in the recent deaths of 
Baron Liebig, the distinguished chemist, and of De Verneuil, the 
French geologist and associate of Sir R. I. Murchison in the geo- 
logical survey of Russia. 
Lastly, who will say that John Stuart Mill, ‘the greatest living 
master of the purely inductive philosophy,” did not exert an im- 
portant influence on physical, as well as mental and political 
science, and anthropology, in its broadest sense? 
Tue U. S. Fish Commission under Prof. S. F. Baird will spend 
the summer at Peak’s Island, Portland Harbor. A large number 
of students and naturalists will assemble there, and the Commis- 
sioner’s headquarters will form, as they have in the past, a most 
important school for the study of biology. A steam-tug has been 
provided by the government for dredging on an extended scale, 
and plans are on foot for deep-sea dredging. 
