Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-08-09
man SCIENCE.


About the WcrId's Wonders.
DETROIT, Michigan, August 9.-Th'
worlds leaders in science. fully on,
thousand in number, are gathered her'
to-day under the auspices Of the Ameri
ca association for the advancement ol
science. Il 10 the forty-sixth annua
conference OF this notable organization
and quarter OF a century has elapsed
sincs II last assem- 5led In the City Il
the Straits. The arrangements for the
gathering. which will continue for a
| week, havs been Ia tho hands Of = corr
mittee Of Influential Michigander', in
Guiding Governor Pingree, George v.
n. Eathrop, fx,minister 10 Russia |;
Thomas w. Palmer, ex minister to
Spain; Edward F. Hull, ex-ambassador
to Germany; James G. Parkhurst, ex-
minister to Belgium; William E Qaim-
by, ex.minister to The Hague; Dr.
James B. Angel, minister to Turkey /;
Postmaster General Don NJ. Dickin-
son, and Justice Henry b. Brown, OF
the supreme court of the United States.
A feature of the gathering is that the
association does not meet as collect
i've body but, after the opening session,
in separate conventions known as s'sec-
tions,'' and rye business consists ex-
clusively in the reading and discussion
of papers relating to scientific matters.
II IL a gathering of the elite of tbs
| scientific world, Of he learned ssvants
of the educaions institutions of this
country and Europe aud OF thoughtful
msn in all branches of natural history,
phlosohy and tne various arts. A
transcript of the names registered AT
headquarters with the inst. ions or
localfties represented by the visitors
| fills fnul columns Of nonpareil type and
the immensity of the cpmbination- If
gatherings can therefore be imagined
Thr unusually large art ndarce is
dus - the fact tnat the British ar
iuterDanennl association for th- hth
vaucenet.t OF science meets iu foruat,',
next week, and is to ba participated 10
by most of the visitors to the present
gathering. The American chemical |
society and the American Mathematical
society, both of which bodies hold
their annual meetings here, this week,
having also added to the large total of
visitors.
The large auditorium of the new
Central High School building was
filled to .ovcrfowing at 10 o'clock, this
on the occasion OF the jpint
opening exercises of the conference.
0 wing to the death, last April. of Prof.
e. Cope, of Philadelphia,
president of the association, Professor
Theodore Gill, of Washington, called
the meeting TO order aud introduced
the president ELECT, Professor Wolcott
Gibbs, of Newport. Addresses of
welcome we're delivered by Mayor
William C. Maybury ana Hon. Thomas
w. Palmer, chairman of the executive
committee of Citizens Of Michigan. An
appropriate reply was made by Presi-
dent Gibbs and the exercises closed.
The section on mathematics and as
lronomy organized this afternoon.
Prof. w. w. Beman, OF the University
Of Michigan, who was chosen as chair
man, devoted his annual address to
"a Chapter 10 the History of Maihe
matics''
The department Of physics was lr'-
'idgd over by DR.. Karl Btrus, .:
Brown University, Providence, and n
Who delivered an address upon IL ing
Range Temperature and Pressure Va {
liable in Physics.
The section on Mechanical Science |
md Engineering was jointly presided !
'ver by Prof. John G,lbraith, of {
and Prof John j. Father, of s
'urdue University, Lafayette. Prof
opening address was de-
'oted to the ground work of dynamics.
Prof. I. G. White, OF the University !
i West Virginia, presiied over the d
Iction devoted to geology and geo-
.rephy and spoke at length on the
coal bed.
Prof. L. o. Howard, of the Depart
nent Of Agricultural at Washington,
vas selected as chairman Of the Sec
ion on zoology, and delivered an IN
eres,ing address on the spread OF
species by he agency Of man with I
rp' cial reference to insects.
Prof. Geo. E. A kinson, OF Cornell
was the presiding officer
# the section of Botany. His address
vas dev ted to sExperimental Nor !
phology.'
Prof w. ] McGae, OF the Bureau
u American Ethnolovy at Washington,
was chairmsn Of the Anthropological
Section. Tn hie opening address he /
ssrhe Science of Humani- ,
~" IL
The section on sociology and econo-
mic science, was p esided over by (
Prof. R. T Colbum, OF E'iz ,beth, N.
His Inaugural address was direc:ed |
10 the subject Of ''Impr6yement Civil
cation =
Tonight the delegates viii! be ten
dered reception and a round OF tsol-
lev and river rides have been arranged
Tor every evening this week.