New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-16

han, Rrooklvn; Or c. T. ADAMS New-Jersey:
Thomas Grant Allen Armour institute, Chicago:
william Appeby. University Of Minnesota: Professor
william Hyde Appleton. Swarthmore College. Penn;
Emmett Armstrong Stee.ton. Penn; Truman j.
pachus Brooklyn: Herbert u. Baldwin. New-Jer.ey;
Charles Barnard. New-York; David Seward Barnes
Illinois: David Prescott Barrows. Los Angeles. Cal ;
DR. Il. T.. Il. Bayllss. Brooklyn; Robert d. Benedict
brooklyn. Henry & Bennett New-Yo-k; Tunis g.
Bcrgcn. Brooklyn: Van Brunt Bergen. Brooklyn:
Abel T.. Blacknan. Brookyn; Edward NJ Blake.
brooklyn: Charles i. Bawli,ch. Boston. Mass: r.
*. Bawkcr. New York; Arthur G. Bradley Brook
lyn: " T. Bradley. Brooklyn; George ". Brammen
New-YOrk: Thomas Il. Briggs. Network; y. q.
Brown Brooklyn: Or. Albert II. Brundage. Brook
lyn: George ". Brush. Brooklyn; a. W. Burcnari'
Danbury Conn; Felix Campbell, Sands Point, Il.
l.; Robert Coleman Chnl Smithsonian Institute; Or.
Joseph r. C.ark. Brooklyn David II. Cochran. Poly
,echnic Institute Daniel william Coqulllett, Wash
inrton. y. g.: Charles F. Fox New-York; Mary l..
Crchore. Kentucky: Charles w. LAWS. Bayonne, and
pr L. A. Day. Brooklyn
FOR THE SESSION TODAY
The arransernents were made for the general
sessions 20 be held to-day The Council will meet
at 9 a. m. IN the Polytechnic Institute, IN Living
atonc-st. At 10 n. m. a general meeting VIII be
held in Polytechnic Hail. IN the same building Or.
Hardness will introduce hts successor. Or Daniel
c. Brinton of Media. Penn. Or Truman J. Backu'.
Of the Packer Institute Will deliver an address N
welcome on behalf OF the Brooklyn Committee OF
citizens. TO which Dr. Brinton Will respond The
announcement of the arrang FOR the sessions
be held to-day and tomorrow and on Monday,
Tuesday ana Wednesday OF next week Will be
made Each of the nine sections VIII then meet
and transact business. In the afternoon the vice
presidents Of the several sections will deliver adj
dresses upon topics OF especial interest TO the men,
bers OF each This evening the annual address will
be- made In the Academy of Music by DR.. Hardness,
president Of the association. His subject Will be
THE Magnitude Of the Solar System" \ reception
under the direction OF the Ladies' Reception Com
mittee Will follow in the art and assembly rooms
OF the Academy, and luncheon will be served A
choice collection OF paintings has been hung IN the
art gallery.
The American Chemical Society began It's ninth
general meeting yesterday in Room 10 of the Poly
tcchn!c institute and It Will be continued to-day
The members OF the society were welcomed By Dr.
William McMurtre. chairman OF the Committee OF
Arrangements. President II. W. Wiley responded
for IN" society. y paper upon "tonrlbutons 20 the
anS u Il Masl . Mas read by the former John
Enq'.!. read a paper upon Utilization OF Acid SUI
Trade " The members OF the society took the
steamer E.ackb'rl in the afternoon Tor trip up
the East River They lunched at the nlneraI-wdter
mandatory Of Carl II. Schultz, and alec went to
The Geological Society Of America continued It's
summer meeting In the Packer institute H.
shgrzr caf Gper upon account Of the dscovery
HN-
i'm July 1893 at Canandasua Lake or weHpre..
served skeleton OF the ancient platycneinc type OF
man showing, besides the cranlal deve.opmehI Oh
low order the compression Of rsinur, the naNehils
az the tbla and the perfOratlon or the huineIus an
sxrlanatIon was made Of the presence or these
+inlan characters in early man ana thelr occds2ns
occurrence especially In negroes al me prtsent ,as
(,omparsons were made. the Ddrwlnian theory
touched on and the paper Illustrated with numerous
charts and plates Parts OK the skeleton reiereI ~
Iphan an the Tertiary and Early suaternary base-
i.,vsiiino in Minnesota. Manitoba and NorthWe,t-
a., ri and abstracts of papers by ho"aru W. AR
hanks on thu geology OF the California 1oas. rshss
and hv Charles : Prosser on the PsrmoA arOoii'-
orous and Permlln Rocks OF Kansas
wErIKNOWN AUTHORITIES SELECTED.
7, WAS announced that Major Jed Hoichkl's. OF
s,,unton. Va. who was appointed by the judges at
the Worlds Fair report upon the advance OF
Geological knowledge from 1876 10 lS8 had selected
the following eminent authorities TO prepare the re-
mort. Tor the following States and countries: "A
btr,a Professor Eugene A. Smith: North Carolina.
PROFESSOR j. A. Holmes; Arkansas DR.. John C. BAT
ner. Iowa &. II. Reyes: Maryland pr. George n
Wilkins; wyoming. Dr. O. L. Bradley: Missouri,
Arthur W.ns.ow: Michigan. Or. l.. l.. Hubbard;
Nv England Professor IL. Hitchcock, California.
Professor s. c. Lawson; New-York. Professor James
Hall Co.orad j. +. Emmons Pennsylvania, F. V.
pInnIllees. Georgia, Dr. J. H. Spencer Ohlo Pro-
y. 7. Daade; Kansas. X Hay; Louisiana . G