New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-22
IFCVI'RES AND MEETINGS.

The Board of County Canvassers will meet
next Tuesday to canvass the vote for Assembymau In
the XNIs. District
Richard a Proctor +. Il. s., will close his
course OF astronomical lectures tonight at Association
Hall. The subject is The Birth and Growth of the
Solar system"
The annual meeting of the directors of the
New.Nork Eve and Ear lnfrmary held last evening
and the following officers elected. President Royal
Phelps esq; vce-PresidcntS b. H. Field. esq, 4. Della
field, VI. D.; Treasurer, Clinton Gilbert; Secretary
Charles NJ Allen, NJ d. During me past year $50
patients were treated VINO were suffering rom diseases
of the eye aud throat H. 80 operations per
formed 10 the different departments
A semi-monthly meeting OF the American
Society OF C.yil Engineers was held at 40. 6j Wamst.
last evening, Gabriel Leverich presiding. discussion
was had upon the Tests Materials Used Construct
ing aud Testing Machines" paper read by c. b.
Ricnard. Of Hartford upon experiments in the fracture
by tensile strains ~ differently shaped specimen. IL
iron Another read oy C. Macdonald on tests Of
cyr-DaTs. Til, followed by discussions and
explanation Of testing machines uaed IN ST. Louis,
Mdyae. and Zurich, switzerland
The first course of lectures TO women, deliv-
cred under the direction oil a committee Of ladies belong
ing TO soross, will be opened this afternoon. The
general theme is IIyscuic and Moral Influences OF
:" the special topic for today is Health Of
Women "a Affected by Dress :" for Tomorrow Inhu-
ence aud Results OF Extravagance IN Dress for saur-
day morning. Dress from both Points of View" DR.
Mary j. Stuiey will lecture in the chapel OF Dr. Deems's
Church. Dr.. Elm f. Judson in the ecture-room DR..
Gallaude Church. Dr. Anna D. French in the chapel Of
Newark. \. j. similar course will be given sub,e
quentB.
Miss Kate Ilillard lectured last evening ut
Unity Chapel. AZ Fourth-aye and Northumberland
twenty ghth-st., upon Wordsworth" she had eX-
pected TO speak upon the subject OF "Old English
Ballads" but owing TO the loss Of the manuscript in
Ffth-ave stage IN the morning another theme sub
-tiiutcd She considered Burns superior TO Wordsworth
because he had keen appreciation OF all that
humorous. Wordsworth believed mat children and he
lower classes approached nearer to IA perfect human
nature because they had never been taught. Miss Hill
lard claimed that II impossible that mankind IN a
thoroughly uncultured state could De superior any
way to mankind "A state OF perfect civilization. She
said that Walt Whitman had carried out WORDSWORTH
ideas.
The first quarterly meeting OF the AssOcia-
ton for the Advancement OF Woman held yesterday
at No. 81 West Twenty ifh-st. There largo at
tendance OF official members nine States being repre-
scented. seycnty-ive new members were admitted and
bureau OF personal communication Cor women
throughout the country was organized. lt was also
voted that the ablest women in the world bc invited to
furnish papers Tor The next annual Congress Letters
were received rom Frances Power COODe, Emily Faith
full, Julia Ward Howe Mary 4. LivermOre, Frances
willard Abba G NOOlson, DIR. Mary Stafford Blake,
Catherine VI. Johnson, Kate NJ Doggett Chicago: Vie
turia crown Princess Of Germany; aud NADIA Faiero
dc Luna FLORENCE. The next quarterly meeting Will DC
held IN BrooklYn, IN April at which time the date aud
place ot the next annual Congress will be