The Annual of scientific discovery: or, Year-book of facts in science and art . Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by GOULD AND LINCOLN,In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the District of R. PRINTER AND STEREOTYPED Caccton 93utlbins, 81, 83, and 85 Centre St., N. Y. NOTES BY THE EDITOR ON THE PEOGEESS OF SCIEXCE FOE THE YEAE 1856. THE Tenth Meeting of the American Association for the Promotionof Science was held at Albany, commencing August 20th, Prof. Hallin the chair. The meeting was by far the largest which has thus farbeen held, a


The Annual of scientific discovery: or, Year-book of facts in science and art . Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by GOULD AND LINCOLN,In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the District of R. PRINTER AND STEREOTYPED Caccton 93utlbins, 81, 83, and 85 Centre St., N. Y. NOTES BY THE EDITOR ON THE PEOGEESS OF SCIEXCE FOE THE YEAE 1856. THE Tenth Meeting of the American Association for the Promotionof Science was held at Albany, commencing August 20th, Prof. Hallin the chair. The meeting was by far the largest which has thus farbeen held, and the citizens of Albany, both in their public and privatecapacity, received the members with a most generous session continued until the 28th, when it adjourned to meet onthe 12th of August, 1857, at Montreal, in compliance with an invita-tion from the City Council and Natural History Society of that officers appointed for the ensuing year are Prof. J. W. Bailey ofWest Point, President; Prof. A. Caswell of Providence, Vice-Presi-dent ; Prof. John Le Conte of South Carolina, General Secretary;and Prof. J. Levering of Cambridge, was continued as PermanentSecretary. The whole number of Papers contributed


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