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We shall proceed from here to Callao where I suppose we shall 
arrive in hine days, from there to Panama, then Galapagos, ete. 
Soundings and dredgings will be continued and we hope to 
reap much scientific knowledge. Professor Agassiz is very well, 
= excepting somewhat fatigued from his overland travel, and all the 
rest of our company are enjoying good health. The Professor was 
most successful in collecting during his travel from Taleahuana, 
—J. Henry Braxe. Valparaiso, May 11th. 
i Tne meeting of the American Association for the Advancement 
4 of Science, as announced in our last number, will be held in 
Dubuque, Iowa, on Wednesday, August 21st. The meeting will 
_ be called to order at 10 A.M. by President Gray. After the usual 
: formalities of organization, the general meeting will adjourn and 
_ the members will meet in their respective sections for organiza- 
_ tion, and as soon as this is accomplished, the reading of papers 
_ will be in order. The order of the last meeting, by which the 
: retiring president will preside during the first day and deliver his 
a Address in the evening, will be followed at this meeting, as it 
ems appropriate to have the president’s address, and the for- 
mal resignation of his chair to his successor, on the first day of 
the session. We trust that at this meeting of the Association, 
Members will not forget the important bearing which a proper 
organization has upon its scientific success, for certainly at several 
former meetings sufficient attention has not been given to the 
formalities required by the carefully prepared Constitution of the 
Association, Especially should care be used in the nomination of 
the one members of the Standing Committee, the Permanent Chair- 
man, Secretaries and Committees of the Sections. Every year there 
been more or less complaint in regard to the admission of 
Papers which were not-worth the time they occupied, and at times 
* Papers have undoubtedly been excluded that had better claims for 
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: admission than others which were allowed to be read. This will 
— pi be the case to a certain extent, from the very nature piigi 
, Association, but we feel convinced that if the following clause 
of the Constitution were strictly adhered to, many of these com- 
= ts would be avoided. 
tional ¢ i ” Paper shall be placed on the programme unless admitted by the Sec- 
Presented to tee; nor shall any be read, unless an abstract of it has previously Met 
the Secretary of the Section, who shall furnish to the Chair e titles o 
Which abstratts have been received. 
