124 Editorial Conimenl. 
The usual page being allowed for the officers of Section C. 
[the chemical Section,] the vice-presidential address of Prof. 
Prescott occupies eighteen pages while forty-three papers (six 
only by title) are crowded into twenty-two pages. It is worthy 
of remark that eleven of these papers are by the same person, 
Prof. T. H. Norton, three by another. Prof. C. F. Mabery, 
both of Cincinnati; and two by Mr. F. G. Novy. None of 
them were however, read by title. The papers in Section D. 
(Mechanical Engineering) take up twenty-five pages (with five 
pages more of the joint session of D and I) of which twelve 
pages are occupied with the address of vice-president E. B. 
Coxe. Twenty-three papers (including the joint session re- 
ferred to) are condensed into twenty-one pages. 
Section E. [Geology and Geography which may be con- 
sidered the nucleus of the whole Association, since the latter 
was evolved out of the Geological Society] occupies forty-seven 
pages, of which twenty-four pages fall to the share of vice- 
president Gilbert in his attack on the International Geological 
Congress; forty-six papers [of which twenty-six are printed by 
title only] are laid upon twenty-two pages, leaving a little more 
than a page on the average to each of the twenty papers ac- 
tually printed in abstract. 
vSection F. [Biology] claims forty-six pages, nineteen to the 
list of officers and address of the vice-president, and forty pa- 
pers [of which eight appear only by title] are condensed into the 
twenty-seven pages of text which remain. 
Section H. [Anthropology] is furnished thirty-seven pages; 
twenty-one of list of officers and address, and thirty-one papers 
(nineteen by title) are squeezed into sixteen pages. 
Section I. [Economics] has thirteen pages to the end of the 
vice presidential address; and twelve papers (seven by title) are 
printed on three pages of text. 
To sum up — there are nine pages of lists of officers; 114 
pages of vice-presidential addresses; 151 abstracts of papers 
read, occupying 141 pages; and 100 papers read b}' title. 
At page 339 commence the executive proceedings with four 
pages of speeches, and five pages of routine business. Two 
pages contain all of the proceedings of the executive committee 
relating to subjects of science, and two pages are devoted to that 
