New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-03
OWE YEAR OF SCIENCE.

| With the close of Summer comes the annual
review of the progress of science which IS
| afforded by the meetings of the American and
the British Associations for its advancement.
From the latter the reports we have presented
prepared by our regular correspondent, IN
dictate that a meeting of fully the usual
| interest and importance is in progress. VI
our own Association we gave during Its ses-
sions abstracts of many of the more notable
| papers in our daily issue: but the pressure
| upOn our news columns at that time compelled
us to omit considerable proportion of our
reports. These are now brought together and
| form part of TRIBUNE EXTRA No. 81, issued
this morning
A year of unusual scientific activity is thus
placed on record in TRIBUNE Extras. The
story of the various exploring expeditions OF
1873 has been told in them. The extensive
preparations for observing the transit OF
Venus were fully described up to the date of
departure of the leading parties in the
Swatara. The meeting of the National Academy
of Science last April gave the opportu-
nifty for placing many particulars OF
advances in research up to that date be-
fore the public, and was exclusively
reported in THE TRIBUNE and reproduced
more fully in an Extra. Since then the lead
ing events in the world of science have been
the advent of COggia's comet the celebration
of the centennial of chemistry at the tomb of
the discoverer of oxygen, the annual meeting
of piiilOlogists, and the assembly OF the Amer
lean Association at Hartford. These four
events furnish the material of The TRIBUNE
Extra issued to-day.
With a view to placing in more permanent
form than is provided by the daily paper. the
scientific information on the subject OF comets
which we provided some weeks since, the en-
tire story of the course and destiny of COggias
comet, the history of Bielas comet by Prof.
Newton of Yale College, and the observations
and calculations respecting the tails OF comets
by Mr. Parkhurst, have been brought
together in this Extra; and this
portion of it is very fully Illus
trated by diagrams. The record OF the pro-
ceedings of the pathological meeting contains
abstracts of nearly every paper presented.
The proceedings at the celebration of the
chemical centennial are very fully given,
including the valuable reviews of the
progress of chemical science by Profs Il.
Sterry Hunt, j. Lawrence Smith, and b.
presented in the report of the American Asso-
citation, embracing the widest variety OF topics,
and including almost every one read before
the meeting, it is impossible to give here more
than the most general notice. AS whole
they equal in interest those of the Portland
meeting; and this, as our readers know, is
high praise.
Some of these papers will have popular as
well as a permanent value-such as the ad
dress of President Lowering on the Advances
of Science; wealth of entertaining nfOrma
ton about insects and nsect-eating plants,
contributed by DR.. Mellichamp, Profs. Gray,
Riley, LIE COnte and Candy and Mrs. Sophie
b. Herrick; on the Destruction of Woodlands
and concerning the alleged tendency of thor
oughbred animals to retrOgrade, by Prof.
Brewer. There is the usual series of valuable
statistics by Prof. Elliott. including further
observations on the periodical changes in the
rate of interest in this city. An unusual num-
Der of brief papers on chemical discoveries
was the fruit of the adhesion of the chem
lists consequent upon their centennial 1t may
here be mentioned that THE TRIBUNEs report
in this Extra contains many papers that will
not be published in the annual volume of
proceedings of the Association, as that is to
be considerably curtailed; it is rarely issued
till nearly twelvemonth after the meet
ing, and never contains the discussions. THE
TRIBUNE Extra reports the debates very fully,
and these are frequently as important, and
usually quite as interesting as the papers The
Extra consists of twelve TRIBUNE pages, and
is sent to any address for ten cents. 1t will
shortly be issued in the pamphlet form which
has attained such wide popularity.