CONTENTS 



Original Papers 



Pace 



Geophysics.— Live aa lava at Kilauea. T. A. Jaggar 241 



Stratigraphy. — Tongue, a new stratigraphic term, with illustrations from 

 the Mississippi Cretaceous. Lloyd William Stephenson 243 



Botany. — Taxonomic botany and the Washington botanist. A. S. Hitch- 

 cock 251 



Abstracts 



Photometry 264 



Geology 264 



Mineralogy 267 



Technology 268 



Proceedings 



The Philosophical Society of Washington 269 



The Biological Society of Washington 271 



The Anthropological Society of Washington 273 



