In the debate on the place of next meeting the urgent demand of Texas was overruled, on the ground that in summer it is "too hot." When a member leaves home and gets caught in a warm wave, he generally blames the " hot place," forgetting that if he had been at home it would have been just as hot there. The writer of this has been over every part of the United States in summer, from the mouth of the Saint Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the Arctic Circle to the Lower California, and has found no place but seemed the " hottest place on earth; " unless he was on a mountain top, or some special " watering place " along the coast, where cool " sea breezes" sometimes successfully compete with the hot wave from the land. In Southern places the heat is longer continued than other places, that is all. For a few days one might as well be in the South as in the North. The writer has found a more sweltering and oppressive heat in Canada in August, than in Texas in the same month. The Association will miss much profit if it does not visit Texas some time.