New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-18
SCIENTISTS IN SESSION.
FORTY. FIRST MEETING OF THE AMERICAN
ASSOCIATION
PAPERS READ BEFORE VARIOUS sEcTIoNs-AD-
DRESSES OF THE RETIRING AND IN
COMING PRESIDENTS.

pApErs READ BEFORE VARIOUS sEcTIoNs-AD-
DRESSES OF THE RETIRING AND IN
COMING PRESIDENTS.
,aY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRiBUsZf
Rochester. n. V. Aug. 1.-THE forty-hrst meeting
a, N. American Association for the Arrangement OF
SCIENCE began here to-day. The retiring PRESIDENT
Professor A. g. Prescott Of Ann Arbor. called the
meeting 10 order and introduced che president-elect.
Professor Joseph lie Conte. Of California. who laid
There three divisions Visions on 1,ose To TA sre are
gon fine art and sciencethree sisters destined TO co
operate in cevang The nature OF man What can tS be
'hfee' III. pursuit Of scientific .Is Z
doubt s s sody ons 90 aSs eeS
honored beyond my due in receiving this office
@ Tho that NSy seSE at
There we Dana. Guyot. Perie. Aesssiz, Han
ss F Ws mn as mot not sna to at
Innate tho present. The golden age Is ahead Of u;
ard not %A 's61d was u.s. !, The eo last Then came
The war and my removal to California. y
lost the Uh ting sr asc o. a sse e@cn en
my friends. but they react ar rs and we educate only
saw viii require your constant forbearance. The
qualities that possess 40 not permit me 70 peT
hcrh md % not the World sS T'" # tbs
political meeting In which there was to BE any STRIFE
scientific men are law unto themselves. Never
theless will rely upon your assistance ana correcuoh'
After az invocation by Mr.. Gardner felicitous ad-
dresses of welcome made by DR.. p. NJ Moore
MAYOR Curran and David J. Hui, president 81 the
University. The aunnai report Of the secretary
showed the finances Of the association 10 be IN
sound condition. and the membership the largest
ever known The organization OF the several sections
followed. New York and It's neighborhood were
represented in the organization by the election OF
Thomas II. Rockwell, Of Tarrytown, as n member OF
the nominating committee Of the section OF astronomy
Ioob ~ Nav York
t,onal committee; william McMurtrie. Of the nomi-
mating committee OF Tire chemical section; Deralson
Wood OF Iioboken, nominating committee OF the
engineering section: F. l.. Button. o! Newly YORK city,
nominating committee Of tho biological section: II.
Hale. OF Brooklyn, nominating committee OF inc
economical section.
The afternoon was occupied by the annual addresses
OF the several vicepresidents J. R. Astman ad-
dressed the astronomical sectiOn urging more work
In the old fundamental department OF locating accur'
ately the principal b. =. Thomas made plea
for better methods Of education before the section OF
physics. Alfred Springer delivered before the chom-
cal section an address on Micro ganisms OF the
Son. John p. Johnson read TO the engineering
section q paper "Tte Applied Sciences" IL b.
Williams presented TO the geological section an IN
teresung paper on :" The Scope Of Paleontolosy ana
Its Value 10 Geologsts." S. II. Gage read TO the
dialogist. paper on Physiological Breathing" 10
which no reported the result OF experiments by MN
self on the rosiratpion Of smphibous annnas
showing that these animals derive their supply OF
oxygen chiefly from the atmosphere. Ala
excrets most OF the carbonic sctd into the wafer W.
H. Holmes discussed before the anthropologis,s the
evolution OF aesthetics. tracing the development OF
the aesthetic sense back TO savage and pre- savage
man and even to pre- human animals. Lister T. ware
read to the economists paper In which he urged me
substitution Of psychologist in place al 6'oogc selec
uen
Tn. evening was devoted to the annual address and
Hall IN he v G. A.
The address Of Albert B. Prescott the retiring pres
dent Of the association, upon 1.-THE Immediate
Work In Chemical science" The speaker said In
part:
II IL be in my power make the annual address OF
thi. meeting any service at all to yon who hear II
! in your loyalty 30 the association would onhs
before you some account Of the work that Is wanted III
IN. science Of chemistry ~ what the chemists have
done In the past the arts Of industry speak more plainly
than the words Of any address. OF what chemists may
do In the future 1t would be quite IN vnn tiIat na
work that is waiting In the chemical world "A, the
present time desire to say . whas Sa genera Sns is
not small task TO find out how the matter OF the uni
made The a !; naIa not nor Dei by reason Of
the multiplicity Of the hnds and compounds OF mailer;
Ss s from on 1hs is dSen from The
hysicis> reach conclusion that matter Is an I
OF molecules little things not 81 large AS mihoi
OF mime,er In size and the formation OF these they
leave the work Of the chemists me smallest sc U
ects dealt with In science ar hcst eserc Of IN
The realm Of chemical action The world s %n'
the molecules OF matter, the abode o. chemical s
Is indeed new world and but little known. i .nc
ne has an S 1R9 truth Of
As working hypothesis 1t has directed aDs nT
research through difficult Ways .v 10 1Pe Of SnoWlre
has more than kept pace wtth us ra, rae, 0, nfn"nd
gno;SDS IN ,SSss ma .n S'G n
living bodice A s..D ian s1ts cssnl ssi
events "Sen Something might have been done, no doubt
without IT had 1t been possible to keep out o Dl 'i 10
he more than facile language than lucid cass
cation more than wbrkng hypothesis. 1t Is the aenhi
TT The STIMULATING truth Of the atomic constitution
Of the molecule great truth In elastic lonSh VIII
sVe a.l RDa'S' from ei the truth se sh e
n nIpS'efe. oTms suck are the
of molecules polymeizing into cells and oi vitny ~
ones OF the nature Of atoms, and the genesis OF
the elements they are now known H D r
from the primary law Of the atomic consu.r Of
simple molecules in gaseous bodes an d Paye
the comfortable assurance every day 10 ne pres
his balance Of precision, that the atonnane nsnye
many unsettled questions may lie around abolt mem
knowledge Of molecular structure mases che dnmion
over matter. for benefcence TO NE. ..o,. o ,nv,,
Studies Of structure were never oel nrciai oppor
tuTitles appeal. Moreover. the actual worker mere
and there fbreas iio unsxpccte1 paths q pcms,e
Certainly the sugar group Is presenting 10 the oci',
AN open way from simple aooIols on through u u'
cell substances Of the vegetable world a 'a a. Dn IN
| Dg anywhere could be suggestive tDtii w. ~
trcmely simple unions OF nitrogen lately d.'cyVclen
They are Likely eucdaie linincs OF ems e sG
In great classes Of carbon componnl an sl,I.n, .,
in general chemistry Then certain ha,oeehe have
iean upon trial SIDE BY side with each other so io
instance. silicon nnst be PAT through lie Pc Nil
lt,,fa u,e cilOr mas
~ ch.mca side as we'll a. from the SIDE OF ply ,lc>
In mat attractive but perplcXing border GROUND Do
tween ahnity and the state, OF aggregation, ,,-
| have spoken OF the century OF begnhhIns
,euical labor and have referred to the divisions ana
| sy.caltles Of chemical study. What can bay vi