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and 83 members were elected as fellows, making the present 
number of fellows about 875. 
For the next meeting, to be held at Detroit, Mich., in Au- 
gust, 1897, Prof. Wolcott Gibbs, of Newport, R. I., is elected 
president: and for Section E (Geology and Geography), Prof. 
I. C. White, of Morgantown, W, Va., vice president, and Prof. 
C. H. Smyth, Jr., of Clinton, N. Y., secretary. This meeting 
will be held immediately previous to that of the British As- 
sociation, which next year is to meet in Toronto, Ontario. 
The affiliated societies meeting also in Buffalo, in conjunc- 
tion with the American Association, were the Geological So- 
ciety of America, August 22, under the presidenc)^ of Prof. 
Joseph LeConte: the American Mathematical Society; the 
American Chemical Society ; the Society for the Promotion 
of Agricultural Science; the Association of Economic Ento- 
mologists ; the Botanical Society of America ; the Botanical 
Club of the Association ; and the Society for the Promotion 
of Engineering Pklucation. 
The Geological Society of America. 
According to a vote previously taken by the Council of the 
Geological Society, the papers presented before it at this 
eighth summer meeting were read only by title, and their full 
reading was deferred to the Thursday sessions of Section E 
of the Association. Six new fellows were elected, namely, 
Jose Guadalupe Aguilera, of Mexico; Philip Argall, of Den- 
ver, Colo.; Ezequiel Ordonez, of Mexico; Thos. W. Vaughan, 
of Washington, D. C;.; Henry S. Washington, of Locust, N. 
J. ; and George H. Ashley, of San Bernardino, California. 
It was voted to hold the next winter meeting of this Society 
in Washington, D. C, on Tuesday to Thursday, Dec, 29-31. 
Geological Excursions. 
Several excursions, for specialists in ditferent branches of 
geology, were made before the meetings. One, extending over 
several days, under the guidance of Prof. C. S. Prosser, had 
for its object the examination of the stratigraphy and pale- 
ontology of the rock formations of western New York in the 
neighborhood of Syracuse, Rochester, Mt. Morris, Portage 
Falls, and westerly to Buffalo. Another excursion, for obser- 
vations in petrography, spent a week in the Lake C-hamplain 
valley and in the Adirondack mountains, under guidance of 
