VI CONTENTS. 



REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



Condition of the fund July 1, 1912 Ill 



Receipts and disbursements July 1, 1911, to June 30, 1912 112 



Summary of appropriations by Congress 114 



PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OP REGENTS. 



Meetings of December 4, 1911, and February 8, 1912 115 



GENERAL APPENDIX. 



The year's progress in astronomy, by P. Puiseux 135 



The spiral nebulae, by P. Puiseux 143 



The radiation of the sun, by C. G. Abbot 153 



Molecular theories and mathematics, by Emile Borel 167 



Modem mathematical research, by G. A. Miller 187 



The connection between the ether and matter, by Henri Poiucar6 199 



Experiments with soap bubbles, by C. V. Boys 21 1 



Measurements of infinitesimal quantities of substances, by William Ramsay. . . 219 

 The latest achievements and problems of the chemical industry, by Carl 



Duisberg 231 



Holes in the air, by W. J. Humphreys 257 



Review of applied mechanics, by L. Lecornu 2G9 



Report on the recent great eruption of the volcano '"Stroialjoli, " by Frank A. 



Perret 285 



The glacial and postglacial lakes of the Great Lakes region, by Frank B . Taylor. 291 



Applied geology, by Alfred H . Brooks 329 



The relations of paleobotany to geology, by F. H. Knowlton 353 



Geophysical research, by Arthur L. Day 359 



A trip to Madagascar, the country of beryls, by A. Lacroix 371 



The fluctuating climate of North America, by Ellsworth Huntington 383 



The survival of organs and the "culture" of living tissues, by R. Legendre 413 



Adaptation and inheritance in the light of modern experimental investigation, 



by Paul Kammerer 421 



The paleogeographical relations of antarctica, by Charles Hedley 443 



The ants and their guests, by P. E . Wasmanu 455 



The penguins of the antarctic regions, by L. Gain 475 



The derivation of the European domestic animals, by C. Keller 483 



Life: its nature, origin, and maintenance, by E. A. Schafer 493 



The origin of life: a chemist's fantasy, by II. E. Armstrong 527 



The appearance of life on worlds and the hypothesis of Arrh^nius, by Alphonse 



Berget 543 



The evolution of man, by G. Elliot Smith 553 



The history and varieties of human speech, by Edward Sapir 573 



Ancient Greece and its slave population, by S. Zaborowski 597 



Origin and evolution of the blond Europeans, by Adolphe Bloch 609 



History of the finger-print system, by Berthold Laufer 631 



Urbanism: A historic, geographic, and economic study, by Pierre Clerget. . 653 



The Sinai problem, by E. Oberhummer 669 



The music of primitive peoples and the beginnings of European music, by 



Willy Pastor 679 



Expedition to the South Pole, by Roald Amundsen 701 



Icebergs and their location in navigation, by Howard T. Barnes 717 



Henri Poincar^: his scientific work; his philosophy, by Charles Nordmann 741 



