New-York tribune., 1901-12-22
MEETINGS OF SCIENTISTS,
IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING GATH
FRINGS IN WASHINGTON NEXT WEEK.
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Washington. Dec. ts-Washington will be COM
nensated for the holiday of Congress by the
annual meetings in this city next week of two OF
1be most important social science associations OF
this country-the American Historical Association
which will have its seventeenth and the American
Economic Association, which will hold its four
teenth meeting These influential organizations in
Guiding in their membership most of the leaders
in research and study subjects indicated by
their names will have joint meetings on Friday,
December y. and the following Monday evening
devotng the remainder Of their sessions matters
of special interest to each society.
On Monday. December 80, the Astronomical and
Astrophyscal Society of America will begin three
days' meeting which will attract the leading as
trouoners of the United States Professor Simon
Newcomb who is of its foremost members, ex-
poets an attendance of thirty forty. and looks
for valuable series cf papers and discussions. Nc
formal programme of proceedings showing the
titles Of papers has been published The exceeding
ly abstruse character of the most of the subjects
renders it OF comparatively slight popular attrac-
tion, but on Tuesday evening the most prominent
citizens of the capital will give reception to the
society and this occasion there will be lantern
exhibition Of slides showing the most recent works
of members and the latest astronomical develop
ments.
on Friday and Saturday of next week the Fedora
tion Of University Clubs will meet at Columbian
University. and will proceed in body to the
White House to shake hands with the President
Their sessions will close with a dinner No fixed
programme has been issued by this young organ
zation. but its discussions promise to be entertain
ing and valuable.
The programme of the American Historical As
sociation repete with the of instruct
i've and highly interesting subjects At the open
ing joint session with the Economic Association
President Richard T. Ely of the latter associa-
ton will deliver address on ~'Industrial Lib
erty' and President Charles Francis ADAMS Of
the Historical Association will deliver his inaugu-
raj address. Saturday morning the Library of Con-
gress will be visited and after the members view
the collection Of historical records the following
papers, among others, vii, be read:
European Archives by Professor George l.
The massachusetts, Public Record Commission
and Its Work" by Robert T Swan, Commissioner
Of Public Records OF Massachusetts.
torical Research in the United States, by Herbert
Putnam. Librarian of Congress.
Professor Lucy NJ. Salmon Eassar College
In the evening at Columbian University the fol-
lowing papers American history will be read:
Some Colonial Court Records by DR.. George E.
Howard, of San Francisco.
Relations Between Great Britain and the Ameri-
can Colonies During the Seventeenth Century, by
versity .-.--..-.- - 49, 7,,,,.,,,,.
Purchase" by Professor Frederick j. Turner or the
University of Wisconsin: -
James Madison and Religious Liberty py
Gaiard Hunt, Of the Department of State
On SUNDAY afternoon ex-senator John B. Hender-
son will receive the members. and Monday
morning there will be papers on European His
tory" by Professor E L. Stevenson. Of Rutgers
College. and Professor Ephraim Emerton, Of Har-
ward University, the rest of the day being devoted
business matters
The same evening. at another joint meeting with
the Economic Association. the following papers are
expected:
B PTotsaT in e9RgFss
Lawrence Lowell of Harvard lniyerslty 49,.
reFafo @ EfoT bV Profeser @ Edwin R seig
man. of Columbia University
The last day,s session. held al the National Mu-
scum will be devoted to Southern History, the
principal papers being:
The Records of the London Company" by Pres
ident Lyon G. Tyler, of William and Mary 5 So5iege, a
The Relations Of the Virginia Piantess Pan aao ane
The Piace of Nathaniel Macon in Southern His
tory by Professor William E. Dodd, OF Ranooipn
aSnn .sIyianGas First Courts by DR. Bernard c.
Steiner of Johns Hopkins University
The American Economic Association will hold six
sessions the first and last being jointly held with
the historians in accordance with the programme
above The second session, held Saturday morning
zriu he devoted 10 international trade The TWO
papers. each 70 be followed by discussion are;
The Meaning of the Recent Expansion L3fi1e OF the
Foreign Trade of the United States BROOKS
AaSIT' nTnrnercIa ol Policy of Europe worthngton c.
Ford, OF Boston
Saturday afternoon the two papers VIII pe'
some Theoretical Possibilities of a Protective
Tariff Thomas n Carver. of Harvard University
Dscussion-Guy S. Calender, of Bowdoin Coliege;
Maurice H Robinson, of Yale University
.aTbe Position of the Workman in the Light OF
Economic Progress Charles A Tutte, OF wabash
Diseussion-David Kinley. of the University OF
Illinois: Samuel N. Lindsay, OF the University ol
Pennsylvania.
Labor problems will be discussed Monday morn
ing. the papers being;
The Negro in the Yazoo- Mississippi Valley;
SocioIogic and Economic STUDY AiLreo u oloile'
o. CIreenVille. Miss.
Tiscflssior-I-. G. Powers, United States census:
Cancellation and Arbitration Among Miners
Herman Justi, commissioner Illinois Coal operators
Association. -, ,-t..,
DiscIIssion-John Mitchell president Of the United
Mine Workers of America; Carroll D. Wright, Com
missioner Department Of Labor
Monday afternoon, under the head OF pubic
Finance" the programme is as follows:
Porto Rican Finance: a Comparative STUDY OF
Snanish and American Administrative Methods t
s Adams of the University of Wisconsin, late as
sistant the treasurer or Porto RICO. 80.
sor of finance Johns Hopkins University. late
tyeasurer of Porto Rico; Leo s. RcWe, assistant
professor of political science University OF Penn
svlvania member of the Porto Rican Cooe Conl-
mission. ..,-..,
Report of the Committee Uniform Municipal
Accounts and Statistics. Moses N Baker, Editor
Engineering News" <
Discussion7C| |harles E Curtis. vice president Of
the CITY Bank of New-Haven; Roland p Falkner'
CT the Library of Congress
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