1036 The American Naturalist. { November, 
Bayard Holmes, Thomas Whitfield, Judge A.N. Waterman. Commit- 
tee on Programme and Correspondence.—Dr. Lewis G. Janes, Chair- 
man, James A. Skilton, General Secretary, Professor E. S. Bastin, 
William Potts, J. W.'Alfred Cluett, Edward P. Powell, Dr. Robert G. 
Eecles, Rev. Minot J. Savage, Professor John Fiske, Daniel Greenleaf 
Thompson, Dr. Martin L. Holbrook, Benjamin F. Underwood, George 
Iles, Duren, J. H. Ward, Ph. D., Rev. John C. Kimball, Lloyd G. 
Wheeler. 
September 27th.—Opening Address by the Chairman. The Progress 
of Evolutionary Thought, Benjamin F. Underwood, Illinois. Social 
Evolution and Social Duty, Herbert Spencer, England. Remarks, By 
James A. Skilton, New York. Constructive Evolution, Edward P. 
Powell, New York. Remarks, By Mrs. Celia P. Woolley, Illinois, and 
Others. 
September 27th.—Origin of Variations—Effects of Use and Disuse, 
Professor Edward D. Cope, Ph. D., Pennsylvania. Evolution of Muscle 
Fibre—A Microscopical Study, Martin L. Holbrook, M. D. New 
York. Present Status of Biological Science, Professor Edward S. 
Morse, Massachusetts. The Inheritance of Acquired Characters—A 
Botanical Study, Professor E. S. Bastin, Illinois. Weissman’s Theory 
Reviewed, Edmund Montgomery, M. D., Texas. The Marvel of 
Heredity and its Meaning, Rev. John C. Kimball, Connecticut. Her- 
bert Spencer's Contribution to the Theory of Evolution, Edwin Hay- 
den, Michigan. Charles Darwin—the Man and his Work, Duren J. 
H. Ward, Ph. D., Pennsylvania. The Poets of Evolution, Mrs. Sara 
A. Underwood, Illinois. Asa Gray, and America’s Contribution to 
Botanical Science, Professor T. J. Burrell, Illinois. Edward Livingston 
Youmans, Instructor of the People, Hon. John A. Taylor. The Life- 
Work of Richard A. Proctor, Miss Mary Proctor, Florida. Emerson, 
the Prophet of Evolution, William J. Potter, Massachusetts. 
September 28th.—The Relativity of Knowledge—Spencer’s Unknow- 
able, Benjamin F. Underwood, Illinois. The Relations of Feelings, 
Herman Gasser, M. D., New York. Evolutionary Psychology as 
Related to Education, Professor Almon G. Merwin, Ph. D., New York. 
Constructive Forms of Intuition, John E. Purdon, M. D., Dublin. 
Psychology in its Relation to ZEsthetics, Harvey C. Alford, South 
Dakota. 
September 28th.—The Evolution of the Social Body, Rev. A. N. 
Somers. Evolution as Applied to Disease in the Progress of Social 
Development, Bayard Holmes, M. D., Illinois. The Evolution of the 
Modern Family, Mrs. Florence Griswold Buckstaff, Wisconsin. The 
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