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SCIENCE. 
We have received a copy of the Report made by 
Professor S. W. Burnham, to the “James Lick Trust,” 
of Observations made on Mt. Hamilton, with reference 
to the location of Lick Observatory, but we are com- 
pelled by press of matter to postpone further refer- 
ence to it until a future date. 
We have authority for stating that the Rev. W. H. 
Dallinger, of England, has consented to become Gov- 
ernor and Professor of Natural Sciences, of Wesley 
College, Sheffield. We congratulate the trustees of 
this establishment on having secured the assistance of 
one who has done so much to elevate the standard of 
scientific research. 
The published papers of Professor Dallinger are 
models of their kind, and largely quoted by the high- 
est authorities who write on the progress of Biology. 
We trust Professor Dallinger, in taking the manage- 
ment of Wesley College, may still be enabled to pros- 
ecute his exhaustive microscopical studies, by the 
methods originally devised by himself, which have al- 
ready been so fruitful of results, and promise to revo- 
lutionize our knowledge of such forms of life. 
We are requested to state by the trustees of the 
Lick Observatories that they will be glad to receive 
the publications of Observatories, and of Astronomical 
and Scientific societies, for the permanent library of the 
Lick Observatory. They inform us that the prelim- 
inary work on Mt. Hamilton has already been com- 
menced, and will be prosecuted as rapidly as possible 
under the circumstances. The small equatorial of 12- 
inch aperture, has been ordered of Alvan Clark & 
Sons, and will be placed in position early in 1881 ; and 
the great equatorial, meridian circle, and other instru- 
ments, will be contracted for at an early day. It is 
not expected there will be any further delay in putting 
the Lick Observatory in complete working order, 
other than that incident to the importance and magni- 
tude of the undertaking. 
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD- 
VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE* 
GENERAL BUSINESS— Monday, August 30TH. 
The fifth day of the meeting was devoted to general busi- 
ness, to essays in the departments, and to visiting Salem in 
the afternoon. In the general session some new members 
were elected, and it was agreed that when the Association 
adjourned, that it should be to Cincinnati, on August 17, 1881. 
The following reports were made : 
Mr. E. B. Elliott, on an uniform system of registering 
deaths, births and marriages ; Prof. E. L. Youmans, on the 
treating of science in public schools ; Mr. F. B. Hough, on 
the preservation of forests ; Prof. Harkness also reported 
certain amendments to the condition of the Association, to 
be acted on next year. At present there are two full sec- 
* Continuation of Report from Science, Sept. 4. 
tions in the association, and it is proposed to establish 
eight, covering the following branches ; A, Physics ; B, 
Astronomy and Mathematics ; C, Chemistry and its Appli- 
cation ; D, Mechanical Science ; E, Geology and Geogra- 
phy ; F, Biology; G, Anthropology; H, Economic 
Science and Statistics. A permanent sub-section of 
Microscopy is also provided for. These changes will 
bring the association in close resemblance to that of the 
British association. 
The reading of the papers in the various sections was 
continued, the subjects of which need not here be staled, 
as we shall offer a full tabulated list of all the papers read 
before this association, conveniently arranged for future 
reference. 
Tuesday, August 31ST. 
The list of essays entered for reading was closed with the 
number 280. The following officers were elected for the 
Cincinnati meeting to be held in 1881 : — President, Pro- 
fessor G. J. Brush, of Yale College ; Vice-President of 
Section A, Professor A. M. Mayer, of Hoboken ; General 
Secretary, C V. Riley ; Secretary, Section A, Professor 
John Trowbridge, of Harvard ; Secretary, Section B, William 
Saunders; Treasurer, W. S. Vaux, of Philadelphia; Audit- 
ing Committee, Henry Wheatland, of Salem, and Thomas 
Meehan, of Philadelphia. Resolutions were adopted for a 
social re-union of the various sections on the second even- 
ing of future sessions. Resolutions were also passed recog- 
nizing the services to science of the late General Myer of 
the Signal Service, and the providing for the appointment 
of a committee to select a series of stars of stellar magni- 
tude for standards, to be reported at the next meeting. 
Cable congratulations were sent to Michel Eugene Chevreul, 
senior member of the French Academy upon the comple- 
tion of his ninety-fifth year. The reading of papers con- 
tinued. 
Wednesday, September ist. 
The seventh and last day of the meeting was opened at 
the Institute of Technology, which had been found so con- 
venient and well adapted tor all purposes of the Association. 
Mr. George Engelman, of St. Louis, Mo., was chosen vice- 
president of the Natural History Section. The following gen- 
tlemen were elected a committee on stellar magnitudes : 
Professor E. C. Pickering, chairman, L. Boss, S. W. Burn- 
ham, Asaph Hall, William Harkness, E. S. Holden, Simon 
Newcomb, C. H. F. Peters, Ormond Stone and C. A. Young. 
The committee is to select a list of standard stars, to which 
the magnitudes of other stars may be referred. The follow- 
ing gentlemen were elected a committee on standard time : 
O. Stone, chairman, S. P. Langley, E. C. Pickering, J. R. 
Eastman, L. Boss, Leonard Waldie, J. K. Rees, G. W. 
Hough and H. S. Pritchett. The following resolution was 
passed : — 
Dr. Charles T. Jackson, one of the founders and an early presi- 
dent of the Association of American Naturalists and Geologists, 
having, after many years of illness and seclusion, just passed away, 
it is fitting that this Association express its high appreciation of his 
long and valuable services, both as an original investigator in 
American geology and mineralogy, and as a teacher of chemistry, 
which will cause his name to be long held in honor and in grate- 
ful remembrance. 
The following resolutions were passed on Tuesday: 
Resolved, That the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science recognizes the value of contemporaneous observations 
at numerous and well-selected stations, and with standard instru- 
ments, as a first and indispensable condition of converting 
meteorology from a chaotic mass of useless facts into a science. 
Resolved, That this Association acknowledges its obligations to 
the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution for originating, 
supporting and cherishing such a system of meteorological obser- 
vations throughout the vast domain of the United States until it 
had outgrown the resources of the institution, had justified its con- 
tinuance by proved usefulness, and had awakened the fostering 
interest of the government. 
Resolved, That, in the opinion of this Association, the welfare of 
commerce and agriculture, and the comfort of every member of 
the community have been promoted by the weather reports and 
weather charts which have been issued by the chief signal service 
at Washington, while they have, at the same time, furnished food 
for scientific thought. 
