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EDITORIALS. 
—Tue Forty-Third Meeting of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science took place in Brooklyn, commencing on 
August 15. The weather was propitious and members attended to 
the number of 475. Many meritorious papers were read, and the ad- 
dresses of the Vice-Presidents presented science in its varied aspects. 
The introductory address, in reply to the welcome of the citizens of 
Brooklyn, by the President, Dr. D. G. Brinton, was an admirable ex- 
position of the methods and aims of science. Four lectures were deliv- 
ered in the evening—the address of the retiring President, Professor 
Harkness, and three by Messrs Fernow, DuChaillu and Cope. The 
citizens of Brooklyn entertained the Association with unusual hospi- 
tality in the matter of excursions. The neighborhood of New York 
offers many opportunities in this direction, of which the Association 
freely availed itself. 
The Association has, for several years, missed from its meetings an 
important contingent of the workers of the country. We refer espe- 
cially to the anatomists, embryologists and physiologists. The princi- 
pal object of the Association is to present to the American public an 
illustration of the work done by the investigators of the country, that 
they may, in some degree, understand its value. The absence of these 
gentlemen reduces the value of the Association as an object lesson, and 
detracts from the force of the impression which the Association should 
make. Their absence diminishes the prestige of the workers in sci- 
ence in this country. Original research is but little endowed in Amer- 
ica, and it is likely to remain so unless the investigators make them- 
selves and their needs known. 
The newspapers of Brooklyn gave good reports of the meeting, but 
those of New York, with some few exceptions, burlesqued the Associa- 
tion. This shows that mental degeneracy is not confined to the rulers . 
of Néw York, but has gotten a strong hold on the alleged intelligence 
of the city, viz.: the Press. As New York, however, is not the United 
States, this matters little, except to New York. 
Tue tariff bill which has just passed Congress contains the follow- 
ing provisions, which benefit scientific work in this country. The Con- 
gressional Committees which have. prepared it have been interviewed 
from timeto time by members of the committee appointed for that pur- 
