Summarized Proceedings ... And a Directory of Members 42
Summarized Proceedings ... And a Directory of Members 42
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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iv, 1847| p. 428. Digitized by Google BY G. BROWN GOODE. 47 The new society was born, and it is significant that the name first adopted was as nearly as possible a combination of the names of the two parent organizations. The one contributed the first half of the name — '*The American Association ;" the other the sec- ond half — ''for the promotion of science." The word advancement in place of promotion was substituted afterwards, probably by the first Committee on Rules. Even if it were possib...le, it would be scarcely worth while to determine .the proportionate extent of the participation of either of the two societies in the early history of the American Association. Tlie influence of the National Institu- tion should, however, have due recognition, and the fact should not be forgotten that under its auspices, and in the city of Washing- ton forty-seven years ago, took place the first national congress of American men of science. It seems appropriate that the reTnaining seven years of the first half century of the American Association should be devoted by those con- cemed in the organization of American science to a unification aiid concentration of the forces^ which now, not purposely, but actually are in part centrifugal.
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