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for an institution for making researches ; an ideal building suited to such 
a purpose was described, and a corps of trained investigators of acknowl- 
edged scientific ability, headed by a president and aided by å large body 
of assistants and workmen, was suggested. 
The chairman of the subsection of anthropology, Dr. Daniel Wilson, 
being also unavoidably absent, his able address on Races in America was 
read by Permanent Secretary Putnam. The author in this address re- 
ferred to the rich field America offers to archeologists, and called special 
attention to subjects of inquiry demanding the closest investigation. 
Capt. W. H. Dall, who was appointed last year a committee on Zo- 
ological nomenclature, presented an elaborate report on this subject. 
The report was highly commended and referred by vote to the standing 
committee, with a request for its publication. 
Invitations were received to meet next year at St. Louis, Mo., and at 
St. Paul, Minn. The former place was chosen, where the meeting will 
open August 21, 1878. The following general officers were elected for — 
the next meeting: president, Prof. O. C. Marsh, of New Haven; vice- 
president of Section A, Prof. R. H. Thurston, of Hoboken, N. J.; vice- 
president of Section B, A. R. Grote, of Buffalo, N. Y.; chairman of 
the sub-section of chemistry, Prof. F. W. Clarke, of Cincinnati, O. ; chair- 
man of the sub-section of microscopy, Dr. G. S. Blackie, of Nashville, 
Tenn.; permanent secretary, F. W. Putnam, of Cambridge ; general 
secretary, Dr. H. Carrington Bolton, of Hartford, Conn. ; secretary of 
Section A, F. E. Nipher, of St. Louis, Mo. ; secretary of Section B, Dr. 
George Little, of Atlanta, Ga. ; treasurer, William S. Vaux, of Philadel- 
phia, Pa. 
The following is a list of the papers read relating to geology, 
ogy, botany, anthropology, and microscopy: Aug. R. Grote, yi 
Knowledge of the Cotton Worm; A New Lepidopterous Insect Injuri- 
ous to Vegetation ; An International Scientific Survey ; J. W. P well, 
The Structure of Eruptive Mountains; William Bross, All Life e: 
tionally Immortal; Thomas Meehan, On Sex in Flowers; Miss Virginia 
K. Bowers, The Law of Repetition; Burt G. Wilder, On the an 
Cynipide; N. S. Shaler, On the Original Connection of the Eastern 
and Western Coal-Fields of the Ohio Valley; On the Continuatio : 
the Folds of the Alleghany Chain to the North of the Delaware River; 
A. C. Campbell, On the Mechanics of the Flight of Birds ; Mrs. r Š 
Ingram, Atmospheric Concussion as a Means of Disinfection ; J. M. i 
ford, On the Silurian Island of the Cincinnati Uplift with Referenc? 
its Pastin Tennessee ; N. S. Shaler, On the Geographical and Geol 
Distribution of the Genus Beatricea, and of Certain Other Fossil 
in the Rocks of the Cincinnati Group ; T. O. Summers, Jr- 
tions on the Skull of the Comanche; E. D. Cope, On the jati 
the Extinct Fishes of the Lower Types; J. W. Powell, Overplacem i 
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