New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-24
. CLOSE OF TIE CINcIyNAT7 MEETING.
AAi'"h ATTENDANCE AND MANY INTERESTING
fAPERs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. TO NOTED POINTS
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ClNCiNNATI, Aug. 23.-The Cincinnati meet
" VIC american Association for the Advancement
ol science is generally acknowledged by its members to
Vc peeh complete success socially and scientifically
ifoessor Putnam, the permanent secretary said
e., 'n''' the meeting compared very
s;o WIN other meetings. In the ses-
SION to-day resolution favorng the establish
O Vi al international park at Niagara and urging
unanimously adopted ~ "''
secretary c. V. Riley, of Washington announced that
~ Ohcihhati meeting had been the most successful with
tne exception of the meeting at Boston last year the at
=, at Ie former being up TO date 531, and that of
inc ter having been 997. At the present meeting more
~" ehpers by far had been received than any pre-
io" meeting The society within few years had in
creased from few hundred members TO 1000 and the
income had increased from So. 900 to So 900
IN section A, ply sizes the first paper read wos nv Pro-
, 9or r. -. Elliott OF Washington, standard time
OF the section we're concluded by listening to hefero
T%nfons collection of figures, words and calculations by
roesSor Asa W. Brown, of Newport KY, entitled Tie
primc o Register of ecses traced from Edens
bnrsf Of Pm q; t which was received with positive
In the subsection of Anthropology at the morning ses
eioh' TWO papers were read the Progress Of
cneoioglcal Research" by w. DeSaas of the Bureau
Oh Ethnology, Washington, and the other by> the
Kew pr' D. ID. Peet, Buffalo Drives Oh
o u, hocK River. in Wisconsin," This papcr
discussion In tie aternoon lesoR the nI
"r MaS one by JUDGE john G. Henderson Agricnl-
lt'htS ol the Mississippi Valley ~
ION was passed and referred the standing
ti"m m asKng Congress TO continue the appropria-
avn ' il Ky 81 cations relating to the mound builders
nHu prehistoric mounds 1t was also resolved TO
oA'loIrc the influence of the Association 10
100, We lhe great mound at CahOkia ILL.,, which was
,'out 10 De sold Otis T. Mason, Washington closed
c s'os2n with speech, in which eulogized the pro
b'rT7 % Tue section on anthropOlogy.
N section b, Natural History. the first manor VIVA
py Irodessor Meechan, of Philadelphia on additional
on me fertilization of Yucca" and the second was
~ ne evidence from the DRIFT of Ohio in Regard to
me oilgln OF Lake Erie" by H. W. Cnvpolo Professor
o. Zoology at Antioch College, Yellow Springs Other
tnppJrs were Notice OF "a Fern Indigenous to Cali
i iprdha, Dnt Heretofore Considered an In
GG,"uiceu iothonse Species by Mrs. Leanier
nistr6ut,onE 'm@rhs on the CLASSIFICATION and
no successful Administration of Nitrous Oxide for
Int"t anu surgical Operations" by C. Il. Rowland
q, On tho DlscoVery OF an Archcmediform Fcnestclnd
IA Inc -, Upper Silurian Rocks OF Ohio" by
~ W. Clhypole; Z" \ Recent Existence of Sword
rplshi shark and Dolphin in tho Fresh Water
roma near Buffalo, \. W" by william Zimmerman
and "On the Relations OF tbs Growth Size and Ace If
Almas,' 10y {. :. Mnot. ~ -
ne is, session of the Association held in Music
nan 'o-hlght. Excursions to Mammoth Cave ChattA-
hoosh ana Lookout Mountain announced for to-
lolI"N' Inc ast batch ot members for this meet
ing was elected making los elected this meeting The
s resolutions OF thanks To all concerned In rendering
'hc meeting pleasant ana successful were passed