SCIENCE 



Friday, August 27, 1909 



CONTENTS 

 The British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science: — 



Address of the President: Pbofessob J. J. 

 Thomson 257 



Robert Eduxirds Carter Stearns: Peofessoe 

 Wm. H. Daix 279 



Scientific Notes and Neics 280 



University and Educational News 281 



Scientific Books: — 



Maxim on Artificial and Natural Flight: 

 O. Chanute. Smith's Our Insect Friends 

 and Enemies: Dn. W. E. Bbitton 282 



^otes on Entomology : Db. Nathan Banks 283 



Special Articles: — 



An Experiment in Miisical Esthetics: Pbo- 

 fessob Leonabd B. McWhood 285 



The Fortieth General Meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Chemical Society: — 

 Section of Pharmaceutical Chemistry : B. 

 K. Cubby 287 



MSS. intended for publication and booki, etc., Intended for 

 i«Ticw should be sent to the Editor of Sciekce, Garrison-oo- 

 ludaon, N, Y. 



ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE 



BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE '^ 



TwKNTY-FiVE years ago a great change 

 was made in the practise of the British 

 Association. From the foundation of our 

 society until 1884 its meetings had always 

 been held in the British Isles ; in that year, 

 however, the association met in Montreal, 

 and a step was taken which changed us 

 from an insular into an imperial associa- 

 tion. For this change, which now I think 

 meets with nothing but approval, Canada 

 is mainly responsible. Men of science wel- 

 come it for the increased opportunities it 

 gives them of studying under the most 

 pleasant and favorable conditions differ- 

 ent parts of our empire, of making new 

 friends; such meetings as these not only 

 promote the progress of science, but also 

 help to strengthen the bonds which bind 

 together the different portions of the king's 

 dominions. 



This year, for the third time in a quarter 

 of a century, we are meeting in Canada. 

 As if to give us an object lesson in the 

 growth of empire, you in Winnipeg took 

 the opportunity at our first meeting in 

 Canada in 1884 to invite our members to 

 visit Majiitoba and see for themselves the 

 development of the province at that time. 

 Those who were fortunate enough to be 

 your guests then as well as now are con- 

 fronted with a change which must seem 

 to them unexampled and almost incredible. 

 Great cities have sprung up, immense areas 

 have been converted from prairies to pros- 

 perous farms, flourishing industries have 

 been started, and the population has quad- 

 ' Winnipeg, 1909. 



