SCIENCE 



Friday, November 26, 1909 



C0XTEXT8 



Preliminary Program of the Boston Meeting 

 of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science 737 



Our Food from the Waters: Professor W. 

 A. HERDjrAN 740 



Reform in Hydney University : Professor 

 Pebcival E. Cole 749 



T. Xishik-awa, 181^-1909: Professor Bash- 

 ford Dean 750 



The American Society of Zoologists: Pro- 

 fessor Lorande Loss Woodruff 750 



Scientific Xotes and News 750 



University and Educational News 754 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



The Endowment of Men and Women, a 

 Check to the Institutional "Exploitation" 

 of Genius: Professor Alexander F. 

 Chamberlain. The Kumbainggeri, Tur- 

 riihul, Kaiabara and Mycoolon Tribes of 

 Australia: R. H. JIathews. Uniformity 

 in English Abbreviations: John N. Jaxies. 

 The Indiscriminate Killing of Musk Oxen: 

 Dr. G. R. Wieland 754 



Scientific Books: — 



Drieseh's Science and Philosophy of the 

 Organism, Strecker's Das Kausalitiitsprob- 

 lem der Biologic: Professor A. 0. Lovejot. 

 Lankester's Treatise on Zoology: Dr. A. E. 

 Ortmann. Ton. Reichenbach's Paleozool- 

 ogie: Professor Charles Schuchert. 

 Maelaxtrin on Light: Professor R. W. 

 Wood 76i 



Recent Views of L. Cu4not on the Origin of 

 Species by Mutation 768 



Special Articles: — 



The Question of Viviparity in Fundulus 

 Majalis: Dr. H. H. Newman. Devices for 

 Changing the Timbre of Musical Instru- 

 ments: E. H. IIawley. The Pickens 

 County Meteorite: S. W. McCallie. Some 

 Conditions favoring Nitrification in Soils: 

 Professor T. Lyttleton Lyon and Jas. 

 A. Bizzell 709 



The National Academy of Sciences 774 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Neio York Academy of Sciences — Sec- 

 tion of Anthropology and Psychology : Pro- 

 fessor R. S. WooDWORTH. The New York 

 Section of the American Chemical Society: 

 Dr. C. M. Joyce. The Elisha Mitchell Sci- 

 entifio Society of the University of North 

 Carolina: Professor A. S. Wheeler 775 



PRELIMINARY PROGRAM OF THE BOSTON 

 MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSO- 

 CIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 

 OF SCIENCE 



The sixty-first meeting of the American 

 Association for tlie Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, and the eighth of the Convocation 

 "Week meetings, will be held in Boston, De- 

 cember 27, 1909, to January 1, 1910, at the 

 invitation of Harvard University and the 

 :Ma.ssachusetts Institute of Technology. 



The opening session of the association 

 will be held at 10 o'clock a.m., on Monday, 

 December 27, in Huntington Hall, Rogers 

 Building, Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology. The meeting will be called to 

 order by the retiring president. Professor 

 T. C. Chamberlin, who will introduce the 

 president of the meeting, Dr. David Starr 

 Jordan. Addresses of welcome will be de- 

 livered by Dean W. C. Sabine, for Harvard 

 University, and by President R. A. Mac- 

 laurin, of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, and President Jordan will 

 reply. 



The addresses by retiring vice-presidents 

 will be given as follows: 



December 27, at 2:30 p.m. 



Vice-president Keyser, before the Section of 

 Mathematics and Astronomy. Title : " The Thesis 

 of Modern Logistic." 



Vice-president Sumner, before the Section of 

 Social and Economic Science. 



Vice-president Willis, before the Section of Geol- 

 ogy and Geography. 



Vice-president Herrick, before the Section of 

 Zoologj-. Title: "The Evolution of Intelligence 

 and its Organs." 



DECEMBER 28, AT 2:30 P.M. 



Vice-president Guthe, before the Section of 



