The result of the formation of the Geological and Chemical Societies can not yet be foretold, as that will depend upon the plan to be adopted for their meetings. Should these societies wisely arrange to hold their meetings so as not to conflict with the two sections which they represent, by holding their annual meeting on the Tuesday before the first General Session of the Association and their special meetings by agreement with the respective section to suspend its meeting for a half day or a day as might be arranged, and the rest of the time meet with the sections, it seems as if only good could result; particularly if all the members of the societies were also members of the Association, and this would follow naturally under such an arrangement. Certainly in such a body as the Association, composed of workers in, and supporters and lovers of all departments of science, there is strength in union; and while any small portion might flourish for a time as an organization of specialists, entirely independent of the larger body of workers and supporters, it would be very short-sighted policy for any such body to cut the strings by which their own special work is bound to the still larger and grander work of the general advancement of human knowledge. With the mutual benefits to be derived from a close union of all special scientific societies each necessarily narrowed by its specialty with the great popular and spreading influence of the Association, where all united make a grand whole worthy the support of every one, it can hardly be questioned but that the mother of all will be faithfully sustained in the councils of her wise children. Salem, Mass., May 9, 1889. F. W. PUTNAM, Permanent Secretary. IN ACCOUNT WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. By 2500 copies Proceedings Vol. 36 (466 pages) Paper and press-work Printing paper covers and binding 2400 copies Cr. 1887-8. $ 815 16 600 00 264 00 $1,679 16 25.00 5 00 34 50 125 47 227 47 600 copies Constitution, List of Members, etc. 45 00 Expenses of New York Meeting 188 51 Agricultural surplus........ Alaska, Yakutat Indians of.... Aleurodes, metamorphosis in the pleurum of.. Algonkin pictographs............. Aluminum, influence upon cast iron......................................................... ▬▬▬ race, alleged Mongoloid affinities of............ Ammidown, E. H., Suggestions for legislation on the currency. Anæsthesia, new experiments in producing with nitrous oxide and air.... Aqueous chlorhydric acid, coëfficients of volatility. Archæan rocks of the northwest.. Arkansas, age of the crystalline rocks...................... peridotites of Pike Co............................................................ The chemistry of fish...... 379 328 289 326 135 322 325 368 286 280 123 205 The food supply of the future and the doctrine of Malthus... Beal, W. J., Comparison of the flora of eastern and western Michigan in the Observations on the succession of forests in northern Michigan The rarer Indian relics of central New York..... Beauchamp, W. M., The Onondagas of to-day........... Binary arithmetic, economic value of..... Boas, F., The development of the civilization of northwest America... Botanical Club, abstract of proceedings of Cleveland Meeting. 131 327 91 401 288 288 327 327 368 326 64 64 396 |