Scientific Progress - Annual Exhibition of the New York Academy

The New York Academy of Sciences will hold its fourth annual reception and exhibition of some features of the recent progress of science at the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, on the evenings of Monday and Tuesday, April 5 and 6. The reception on Monday evening will be for the members of the Academy and certain invited guests, and features of the exhibition will be described by members of the Academy. On the following day the exhibition will be open to students in the afternoon, while in the evening the reception will be of a more popular nature, and a brief talk on “The Streams of Lennard and Roentgen, with Novel Apparatus for their Production,” will be delivered by Dr. Nicola Tesla.

The exhibition is in charge of the following committees: Honorary committee of members — Judge Addison Brown, Judge Charles P. Daly, William E. Dodge, E. L. Godkin, Abram S. Hewitt, Morris K. Jesup, President Seth Low, and William C. Schermerhorn; reception committee — Prof. Henry F. Osborn, Charles F. Cox, Prof. Richard E. Dodge, chairman; general committee — anatomy, Prof. George S. Huntington; astronomy, Prof. J. K. Rees; botany, Prof. L. M. Underwood; chemistry, Prof. Charles A. Doremus; electricity, George F. Sever; ethnology and anthropology, Dr. Franz Boas and M. H. Saville; experimental psychology, Prof. J. McK. Cattell; geology, Prof. James F. Kemp; mineralogy, George F. Kunz; paleontology, Gilbert Van Ingen; photography, Prof. William Stratford; physics, Prof. William Hallock and Prof. John F. Woodhull; physiography, Prof. Richard E. Dodge; zoology, C. L. Bristol.