1890.] Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 873 
Basket-Mortar of Southern California, H. N. Rust. The Adze, H.N. 
ust. 
Papers read on Tuesday, Aug. 25th. — Section F.—Biology.—Account 
of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's Holl, C. S. Minot. The 
Desirability of Establishing a Biological Station on the Gulf of Mexico, 
W. P. Wilson. Potato Scab, a Bacterial Disease, H. L. Bolley. The 
Continuity of Protoplasm Through the Cell-Walls of Plants, W. J. Beal 
and T. W. Tuomey. Preliminary Note on the Genus Rhynchospora 
in North America, N. L. Britton. On Rusbya, a New Genus of Vac- 
ciniacez from Bolivia, N. L. Britton. Notes on a Monograph of the 
Genus Lechea, N. L. Britton, 
The general session of the A. A, A. S. transacted a large amount of 
business, and the next meeting, to be held in the city of Washington, 
in August, 1891, will open with a clear page. It was voted that names 
of candidates for fellowship must be presented before the first meeting 
of the council in each year. A resolution was passed instructing the 
committee on forestry to bring the matter of preserving the groves of 
Sequoia trees of California to the special attention of Congress and the 
Secretary of the Interior. 
A resolution was passed recognizing the services to science of Senors 
Barao de Guahy and Jose Carlos de Carvalho, citizens of Brazil, who 
by the expenditure of many thousands of dollars by the first, and many 
months of gratuitous labor on the part of the latter, caused to be trans- 
ported from its original position in the interior of the State of Bahia 
to the National Museum in the city of the Rio de Janeiro the famous 
Bendigo meteorite, the largest mass of sidereal matter ever placed in 
any museum. This meteorite is said to weigh about five tons. 
The committee on reduction of tariff on scientific books reported 
progress, and an item providing for the free transportation of scientific 
books by individuals has been introduced into the McKinley bill. As 
this item embraces only books in languages other than English, repre- 
sentations have been made by the committee to members of the Ways 
and Means Committee of the Senate which, it is hoped, will result in 
the inclusion of scientific books printed by the English government 
and scientific societies. 
It was resolved that the A. A. A. S. request of the Secretary of the 
Navy the careful consideration of the memorial recently presented by 
various observatories relative to furnishing of time signals to the 
Western Union Telegraph Company by the naval observatory for com- 
mercial purposes. It was also resolved that the association joins the 
bservatories of the United States and Canada in asking the Secretary 
