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Rh scientific work attended the meeting and the citizens of Boston probably find the city already saturated with lectures and addresses. At the meetings of the British Association there are usually a thousand or more local members elected for the meeting who provide large audiences. The difference is doubtless largely in the social organization of society; but it is unfortunate that the American Association is able to do so little to give science the dominant place it should have in the life of the people. All those who realize the importance of this problem should unite to do what they can to keep the larger public in touch with the advance of science. It is almost bewildering to consider that the titles of more than a thousand scientific papers were printed on the preliminary program. They were distributed among the sciences included in the association, as follows: astronomy and mathematics, 37; physics, 54; chemistry, 254; mechanical science and 17; geology and geography, 141; zoology, 124; botany, 122; anthropology and psychology, 63; social and economic science, 17; physiology