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secretary's report. 
United States Geological Survey of the Territories. 
Boston Society of Natural History. 
Hull Literary and Philosophical Society. 
Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
Academy of Science, St. Louis. 
Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 
Geological Society of London. 
Royal University of Norway. 
Societe-Geologique du Nord. 
Royal Society of Edinburgh. 
Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. 
Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh. 
Oversigt over det Konigelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs, Kjopenhayn. 
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, U.S.A. 
Watford Natural History Society and Heitfordshire Field Club. 
Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical Society. 
Bristol Naturalists Society. 
Leeds Geological Association. 
Patent Office Library, London. 
Powis Land Naturalists Club. 
American Philosophical Society. 
Comite Geologique de Russie. 
The attention of the members is drawn to the EHzabeth 
Thompson Science Fund. 
This fund, which has been established by Mrs. Elizabeth 
Thompson, of Stamford, Connecticut, "for the advancement and 
prosecution of scientific research in its broadest sense," now amounts 
to $25,000. As the income is already available, the trustees desire 
to receive applications for appropriations in aid of scientific work. 
This endowment is not for the benefit of any one department of 
science, but it is the intention of the trustees to give the preference 
to those investigations, not already otherwise provided for, which 
have for their object the advancement of human knowledge, or the 
benefit of mankind in general, rather than to researches directed to 
the solution of questions of merely local importance. 
Applications for assistance from this fund should be accompanied 
by a full statement of the nature of the investigation, of the conditions 
under which it is to be prosecuted, and of the manner in which the 
appropriation asked for is to be expended. The applications should 
be forwarded to the Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Dr. C. S. 
Minot, 25 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, Mass., U. S. A. 
