New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-06
FOR THE BIG SCIENTIFIC NETTING

NAVY SOCIETIES To BE REPRESENTED "''D
PROMINENT MEN INVITED As GuEsTa.
,r,. r~o,gsrnents for the meeting Of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement OF science -
he held in brooklyn August ID t. - inclusive d.
being RAPIDLY carried forward under the auspices .,
tho General Citizens Committee that was "pl'.'"','
At n meeting held at the city Hall on APT" - J"
response % a call by Mayor Schioren-
while # has been known for some weeks uH' ~"
American Association would accept the ihVi'a"oh
extended by the General Citizens Committee
formal acceptance OF the invitation was mol '''e''
until Yesterday in the following letter;
professor Franklin ". Hooper Chairman, OF lon,
Inittce on Organization Of Citizens Reception
Committee. brooklyn ~ c0 ~ Of the coun-
eli OF the American Association ior the Al ,, 20
ment OF Science. appointed at tne lay, neetjng
determine upon the place OF me ny veicomn in
have the honor to acknowledge NsrS "eeoci ZION
vtaon to hold the next meeting Of the aSSo''h''o"
III beg hat you will convey TO HIS Honor the the
Educational Institutions Of the city ana 70 'e ~.
zens who have taken an active par. III . cnrdiai
Invitation which the committee 81 me assU, ,'s
has great pleasure r FFR RfSSPERfsitcK " PUTNAM
Permanent Secretary OF the american @sSo0iA''o"
for the Advancement or sciences
Tho sub-committees Of the Citizens Conii''''e
have been actively at work. It Is customary Tor a
large number Of other scientific organizations 10
meet nj the same time and In the same pace d.
the American Association for the Advancement ..
coiooca TnvtatiOns have accordingly Deen eN'ehucu
- ,ho following societies to share with the assoca-
zion the hospitallties of the city: The Geological
sociotv of America Sir J. William Dawson OF
,ror,roal nresdent: American Hierosohcal society,"
1acoh u Cox Cincinnati, president; Society lor the
promotion NJ Agricultural Science Professor D. T.
poherts Ithaca president; Society for the PROMO
,,on Of Engineering Education j. b. Johnson, secIo
,ar,,. botanical Club Professor William T. Wison
phiIadelnhia president; Association or economic
Entomologsts Dr. A. s. Forbes, ChaHpaghhe' ,P tsS
rrns,dont PROFESSOR Albert &. Hale, Brooklyh sec
rretary: Association of State Weaiher oeI'1 ~
Major II. c. Dunwoody, president A et rinh a.
s on ~ ofticai Agricultural Chemists; Assocla-
tlon OF American Agricultural ColiegeS anu phunc
ment Stations Entomoioglcai I'M GcoSranhcai So
cte,v CHARLES p DAILY president; Torrey Botahcai
Si,ni' ~ New-York Professor Henry H. RusDy' sec
rotary; NewYork microscopes Sncietv Of New
York New York Mineralogical SOCIETY," NV - ~
Mathematical Society, New-iork Secuo Wr ~ En-
American Chemical Society. ana Ne"-iorA III
Arransements are also being made to have a num-
her OF distinguished scientific men from Europe as
guests of the Citizens ComnItee SuiS Sbnu, II is
ings OF the association. Among those whoIn ~ 80
nronosed to invite to be present are froiesssor
Thomas H. Huxley. Professor William CrooKes.
Professor r George TcSibad eie Sir John Lubbock the
Rev ST George Mozart, Professor H. aney ~
olson Professor George IA. Romans, Or w 'i ma,
Thompson. Professor AlIreo i,c Carmany and other
Der of naturalists from FRANCE Hei"'a"' "'' ~
Arranaements are under way for three large ex-
cursions-two on Saturday. August is. one 10 long
isranch and the other TO Cold Spring Harbor; TO
visit the biological laboratory ana the flsh .oiii-
mission stations there Is eXptcsed The .n formal
close az the scientific meetings an excursion VIII
| be arranged TO West Point