The resolution was seconded by Rev. Mr. SHACKELFORD, and after remarks by several members was unanimously adopted. Professor LATTIMORE offered the following: Resolved, That the thanks of the Association be given To Dr. Henry Wheatland, President of the Essex Institute, to Judge William C. Endicott, President of the Peabody Academy of Science, and to the Salem Committee, for the interesting and profitable visit to Salem and its scientific institutions on Monday last. To the Eastern Railroad Company, for the use of trains to convey the members of the Association to and from Salem, Rockport, and Marblehead, and for their great liberality in furnishing trains free of cost for the three days' excursion to the White Mountains. To Messrs. Samuel H. Scudder, Edward Burgess, John M. Ordway, Charles R. Cross, R. H. Richards, William H. Niles, J. Rayner Edmands, Hamilton A. Hill, Charles L. Jackson, A. P. Rockwell, J. R. Chadwick, C. F. Folsom, Nathan Appleton, E. S. Ritchie, Charles H. Williams, Charles E. Fay, Mrs. R. H. Richards, and Mrs. W. H. Niles, for their very kind and numerous attentions, and as representatives of the many who have spared no pains to contribute to the comfort and convenience of the members of the Association. To the representatives of the Press, who have attended its meetings and reported its proceedings so fully, particularly to the Boston Daily Advertiser for the arrangements made for obtaining extended reports of the proceedings of the various Sections. To the following Corporations and persons, for highly appreciated attentions and valuable services : The Western Union Telegraph Company, Geo. F. Milliken, Manager. American Bell Telephone Company, W. H. Forbes, President. Dr. A. Graham Bell, for special telephone conveniences. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Massachusetts Historical Society. The Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The Historic-Genealogical Society. The Society of Decorative Art. The Young Men's Christian Association. The Young Men's Christian Union. The Warren Museum. The Boston Public Library. The Athenæum Library. The Boston Medical Library. The Trustees of the Old South Church. The Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind. Commodore George M. Ransom, Commandant Navy Yard, Charles town. Colonel T. S. Laidley, U.S. A., Commandant Watertown Arsenal. The President and Faculty of Tufts College. Mrs. Thomas P. James, of Cambridge. The New England Woman's Club. Lieutenant Commander White, of the U. S. training ship Minnesota. The Heliotype Printing Company. The School Committee of Boston. The Principal of the Chauncy Hall School. The Adams Express Company. The American Express Company. The United States and Canada Express Company. The New York and Boston Despatch Company. To the following Railroads for reducing their rates to members attending the meeting: - Concord, Northern New Hampshire, Central Vermont, Boston & Providence, Old Colony, Boston & Albany, New York, New Haven & Hartford, Eastern, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, European and North American, St. John & Maine, Michigan Central, Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis, Union Pacific, Central Pacific, East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia, Philadelphia, Wilmington & Georgia, Grand Trunk, Boston, Concord & Montreal, Fitchburg & Hoosac Tunnel Line, Vandalia Line, Bee Line, and Wabash Line. This resolution was most heartily seconded and endorsed by Rev. H. C. HOVEY, of New Haven, Mr. JOHN L. PROCTER, of the Geological Survey of Kentucky, and Dr. J. LAWRENCE SMITH, of Louisville, and was adopted by a rising vote. The PERMANENT SECRETARY stated that as a slight memorial of the Boston meeting, a copy of the Memoirs of the Association had been, by vote of the STANDING COMMITTEE, presented to the New England Woman's Club. After remarks by several members, President MORGAN, with a few concluding words, declared the twenty-ninth meeting of the Association adjourned. J. K. REES, The resolution was seconded by Rev. Mr. SHACKELFORD, and after remarks by several members was unanimously adopted. Professor LATTIMORE offered the following: Resolved, That the thanks of the Association be given To Dr. Henry Wheatland, President of the Essex Institute, to Judge William C. Endicott, President of the Peabody Academy of Science, and to the Salem Committee, for the interesting and profitable visit to Salem and its scientific institutions on Monday last. To the Eastern Railroad Company, for the use of trains to convey the members of the Association to and from Salem, Rockport, and Marblehead, and for their great liberality in furnishing trains free of cost for the three days' excursion to the White Mountains. To Messrs. Samuel H. Scudder, Edward Burgess, John M. Ordway, Charles R. Cross, R. H. Richards, William H. Niles, J. Rayner Edmands, Hamilton A. Hill, Charles L. Jackson, A. P. Rockwell, J. R. Chadwick, C. F. Folsom, Nathan Appleton, E. S. Ritchie, Charles H. Williams, Charles E. Fay, Mrs. R. H. Richards, and Mrs. W. H. Niles, for their very kind and numerous attentions, and as representatives of the many who have spared no pains to contribute to the comfort and convenience of the members of the Association. To the representatives of the Press, who have attended its meetings and reported its proceedings so fully, particularly to the Boston Daily Advertiser for the arrangements made for obtaining extended reports of the proceedings of the various Sections. To the following Corporations and persons, for highly appreciated attentions and valuable services : The Western Union Telegraph Company, Geo. F. Milliken, Manager. American Bell Telephone Company, W. H. Forbes, President. Dr. A. Graham Bell, for special telephone conveniences. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Massachusetts Historical Society. The Massachusetts Horticultural Society. The Historic-Genealogical Society. The Society of Decorative Art. The Young Men's Christian Association. The Young Men's Christian Union. The Warren Museum. The Boston Public Library. The Athenæum Library. The Boston Medical Library. The Trustees of the Old South Church. The Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind. meeting, Professor George F. Barker, of Philadelphia, called the Association to order in Huntington Hall, and introduced President Morgan. The Rev. Dr. George E. Ellis offered prayer, and remarks were then made by Professor William B. Rogers in behalf of the Local Committee. His Honor Mayor Prince and His Excellency Governor Long, extended a most cordial welcome to the members of the Association, to which President Morgan responded. The formalities of organization were then completed. Sections A and B, and the Subsections of Chemistry, Microscopy, and Anthropology, were called to order by their officers in the several rooms in the building of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and perfected their organization by electing their several committees. At one o'clock, a bountiful lunch was served by the Local Committee in the Gymnasium of the Institute, and an hour and a half of sociability followed. At half-past two o'clock, Vice President Hall, of Section A, delivered his address in Huntington Hall, and at four o'clock Chairmen Ordway and Powell, of the Subsections of Chemistry and Anthropology, gave their addresses before their respective sections. In the evening Professor Barker delivered the presidential address to a large audience at a General Session of the Association, in Huntington Hall. After the address, a reception was given to the Association and many invited guests, by the Trustees of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts at the Museum. During the day the Local Committee distributed to each member of the Association a pocket map of Boston and vicinity, with a pamphlet containing a brief account of the Scientific Institutions in Boston, Cambridge, and Salem, both of which had been specially prepared for the occasion by the Local Committee, under the immediate direction of Mr. Samuel H. Scudder. On the walls of the Local Committee room several large maps and plans were hung, showing the different horse-car routes of the vicinity, the water-supply system, old and new drainage systems, and other matters of general interest. A special post-office, telephone, telegraph, and express offices, and newsstand, were established in the Institute building, and were of very great service to the members; thanks particularly to the liberality of the Western Union Telegraph and American Bell Telephone companies. Many invitations and offerings of courtesies were announced on the daily programme from the various institutions of the city and vicinity, and every effort was made to convey to the members of the Association a cordial greeting. The Entomological Club of the Association was more largely attended than ever, and on a later day it was resolved to dissolve the Club and reorganize as a permanent subsection of the Association. The Association of Agricultural Chemists also called a meeting, to be held in the rooms of the Boston Society of Natural History, and the American Chemical Society gave notice of a dinner of members of the society, to be held at Young's Hotel, on Friday evening. On Thursday the Association held its General Session at 11 A.M., in the Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, at which Professor A. M. Mayer, in behalf of the committee appointed at a previous meeting, read an eulogy of the late Professor Joseph Henry. Immediately after the Association met as Section B, and Vice President Agassiz delivered his address. At half-past one o'clock, by invitation of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, the Association took dinner in Memorial Hall, Martin Brimmer, Esq., of the corporation, presiding. After the dinner visits were made to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Peabody Museum of Archæology and Ethnology, the Physical Laboratory, the Mineralogical Cabinet, the Chemical Laboratories, the Library, the Gymnasium, and other College buildings and places of interest. Special receptions were also held in the afternoon at the Botanic Garden, the Observatory, and at the room of the Cambridge Entomological Club, and at Mrs. T. P. James's. At six o'clock a tea was given to the Association at the Botanic Garden, followed by a visit to the Observatory, and by a reception at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell, the members returning to Boston about midnight. Friday was given to solid work in the Sections, after a short General Session in the morning. The intermission between the morning and afternoon sessions was most pleasantly passed at the Association lunch, furnished by the Local Committee. In the evening Professor Bell's paper, on the photophone, was delivered in General Session at Huntington Hall, and was followed by a reception at the Vendome, given to the Association by Mr. and Mrs. William B. Rogers. After the General Session on Saturday morning, the sections and subsections met for the reading of papers. Section A was temporarily subdivided by the separation of the papers on Physics from those on Mathematics and Astronomy. Section B also made a temporary division into Geology and Biology, and the Subsection of Entomology was formed. By invitation of His Honor the Mayor of Boston, the Association made an excursion down the harbor on the steamer Empire State. A collation was provided on board the steamer by the city authorities, and after a delightful trip the party returned at seven o'clock. In the evening, the Nominating and Standing Committees met at the Vendome. From eleven until two o'clock the Woman's Laboratory, the Biological Laboratory, and the workshops attached to the Institute of Technology were open to members of the Association for special examination. A Guide to the Museum of the Boston Society of Natural History, specially prepared for the occasion by Professor Hyatt, the Curator of the Museum, was distributed to members of the Association during the morning, as was also a guide |