The New Orleans Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

THE third meeting of the association was held in Charleston, S. C. in 1850. At that time there were^ 622 members. The number at the meeting is not given. It was probably a negligible quantity, for until 1905 the experiment of a meeting in the south was not again tried; though, of course, the failure to meet again in that section was largely due to the fact that until recently the only time available for an annual meeting has been the hot summer months. The registration at New Orleans was 233. The attend,ance of unregistered members of affiliated societies would raise this number to a probable total of 300. It will be noticed that a comparatively small number of affiliated societies thought it wise to follow the association on so long an excursion from the usual places of meeting. Assurances have been abundantly given that in the NeW York meeting most of the -societies usutally affiliating will resume that relation to the association. o n A pr il 20 , 2 01 7