New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-20
SCIENTIFIC CONVENTION
AT EEW.HAYBN.
erienn Association for the Adyaacemsu
of Science.
lReporisd 'or rne Tribune


FIRST DAY...NEw.HAyES, Monday, Aug 10, 1850
The classic shades Of venerated Yale have this
year been awake ned from their cu,s)m,ry Vaca.
ton quiet by the advent Of the American Scientific
Association. The city has but just recovered from
the excitement and hustle Of the Third Semi Cen
tennia Of the College. large number Of strs1-
gers and others 10 attendance upon that occasion
are tMying for another week 20 aTai! the action
Of this Convention,
Nothing was done on Saturday beyond renova-
ting the town, and brushi1g up the dwellings, after
the duat and confusion Of Comnencement. The
houses were half untenaa.able, the people lively
watering carts busily employed laying refractory
1ust-landladles and g0odwivcs we're Cross and
snappish-dogs barksd cattle ran lose, and for
while everything was topsyturvy. Bat presently
the prOverbia stesdy habits oithe populace came
to their aid, being only temporarily frightened
away, and the moving ca1se Of ths uneh,nesI-
dirt-baving been once more snnhiat d, we all
settled down into quiet on Saturday evening
enliyened by the bells ringing merriy for the old
fashioned weekly Singing Schools Sunday was OF
course quiet-wherei is j. not in New England-An1
this morning the town walked up = new lie.
Bat came near losing nigh! Of the blsness that
called nae here. New Haven Is a charming s9ot,
and filed with excellent People-.go things which
are very apt TO make ono forge! thai he has duties
to perform.
This morning there was no pubic organization
ofthe Convention. The prelimiaarics we're arranged
In Committees, and business was at once really
when the Association formally organized Itself ia
70 tho regular Annual Session. The attendance OF
members and strangers ihiS yoar viii, think, a1r.
mass that of any former peri d, excepting perhaps
At PHILADELPHIA ia 1875. Cambdige was both 70
mote and ircony enient, bsng o. the time o. the
Convention last year entirely unProYided wi;A
pubfo accommoda atoms Of adequate capacity
New Haven is quite different ia many respects
and from it's central situation viii naturally
s,trac, a large share. l understand, from some
promineut members Of the Association who have
taken some trolble to provide acconnolai!o1s
for ali who come, that the numbers looked Tor
will swell the Convention 70 r most respectable
size. Ii need not be said tina. The proceedings
will be of marked and peculiar intarss', for these
annual gathering, Of the learned mon Of our coan
try are rapidly growing IN numbers importance
and the esteem AMI interest OF the public. shall
carefully note all questions Of general Interest o.
particular Importance that may transpire through
the week, and forward you as complete digest
a. can be obtained wlhou! entering into those nj
mute details which possess interest oaly for the
scientdo deliver, who viii Of course had them else
where.
Among the celebrities present, obss.vo PROBES
.or, LOUIS AeAssIZ, E. N, HoKsFoRD aad Ben
yAnlS PEsRcE Of Harvard University Lieutenant
CHARLES Il. DAVIS, T. S. NJ Professor ALEAAN'
DIR ID. BAcHE, SuperintoEden! OF the Coast Sur
vsv and Preside nj OF the A,so iAton io- this yeV
Professor 0. II. MITCHELL, Superintendent o. the
Cincinnati Observatory Dr. 4. l.. ELwYN Of Phi.
Adslptia; Professor WALrTR Il. JoHSsoS Of
Washington; Professor JosEPA HESRY, Secretary
of the Smithsonian Institution WILLIAM Q. RED
YnLD, ESQ, Of Newly rk; President WooLsEI
and many Of the Professors Of Yale College taking
an active part in the proceedings. Am'ng the lat
ter may be mentioned Professor DENIsoN DIN.
srEAD; the two SILNAN's, senior and elder
JAMES d. DANA, L. {. HgRRIcH and + Looms,
Professor AGAssIz, the indSlatgablo colatoF Of IA
trA curiosities and coulss,edly the most able IA
turslst Of the present y Is here in his fall glory,
one of the most busy aud respected members Of
the body. He began detailing the results Of hi,
inves,ea ATOMS even Is eSgy 81 this aaarnoon. An
abstract Of his remarks is sigea below Many OF
themembers are accompanied BY their families
sra altogether We sntioiPsto very cheerful
week.
Upon assembling 1T 81 O'clock, Pm. in tbs Geo
logical Lecture Room Of the College Cabinet the
Association was soon organized and proceeded 70
basinesL Prof. SULLIVAN, sen. announced toe
presence Of Prof BAcaE IS President Of the Coz
Vel'ioni and that gonaemsa having taken bis ssat
The exercises were opened In ,ras Nox-Engani
fashion With Prayer BY Rev President WooLsEY
OF yale. The Prayer was exceedingly aoproori.te
and eloquenIy worded.
We then heard paPers from Profssso-s OLusrgD
Of New-HEven, on Certain Poia.s Of El,o.,i,,l
Theoy"-!ollosed By an Interesting di,s,,,;o,
on the AnSlogy between Filhes and M,akioa bv
Pro-. AGAsslz, which gave yiie to ooasider.bl.
meuime1t; on curious SpheroidL Struc,ure,5D
ROOks, by Prof SILLEAS, Jr and on Electrical
Phenomena in New York, by PfOi. LOOMS.
On motion Of Mr.. HERRIED, three additional
secre,ariss were appointed, 30 that the acting
general oltcsrs Of the Conventon are "a follogs:
fsssidssi-Prof ALEXANDER ID. BACHE, Washington
ets'srts-Pto' LDgnls, New Haven; Dr. 8eoi A
0Vsd Csmoriigei Wa p sisks NeEdavsn
Invitations bAye already been reserved sad Ac-