Friday, January 10, 1913 



CONTENTS 

 The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Proceedings of the Cleveland Meeting: Pro- 

 PEssoE H. E. Summers 41 



The American Society of Naturalists: — 

 Heredity and Besponsibility : Professor 

 Edwin G. Conklin 46 



Scientific Notes and Neivs 55 



University and Educational News 57 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



The Vote on the Priority Side: Dr. W. H. 

 Dall. The Staining of Protozoa: Samuel 

 T. Darling. Dorsal Scale Bows of Snakes: 

 Professor Alexander G. Euth\'en. The 

 Question of Text-iooks in Composition: 

 Professor A. T. Robinson 58 



Scientific BooTcs: — 



Partington on Higher Mathematics for 

 Chemical Students: Professor Edwin Bid- 

 well Wilson. Hertwig's Allgemeine 



F. E. L. Csapelc's Chemical 

 Phenomena in Life: Professor Raymond 

 J. Pool 63 



Standardisation of the Accounts of Learned 

 Societies: Professor Albert Bushnell 

 Hart 66 



Special Articles: — 



Evidence that Sodium belongs to a Radio- 

 active Series of the Elements: Professor 

 F. C. Brown 72 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section A — Mathematics and Astronomy: 

 Professor G. A. Miller 76 



Societies and Academies : — 



The Anthropological Society of Washing- 

 ton: W. H. Babcock. The Helmintholog- 

 ical Society of Washington: Maurice C. 

 Hall 77 



MSB. intended for publication and books, etc.. intended for 

 review should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 On-Hudsnn, N. Y. 



THE CLEVELAND MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 

 ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



The sixty-fourth meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 

 was held at Cleveland, Ohio, from December 30, 1912, to January 4, 1913, under the 

 presidency of Dr. Edward Charles Pickering, director of the Astronomical Observatory of 

 Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 



The excellent arrangements made for the meetings, the good hotel and other public 

 utilities of Cleveland, and unusually mild and pleasant weather through most of the week, 

 combined to make the material environment one of the most agreeable experienced by the 

 association. The number of members registered was 720, and in addition 150 from the af- 

 filiated societies; but as is well known this registration is always incomplete, especially in the 

 case of members of affiliated societies who are not members of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. It is safe to say that the total in attendance must have 

 exceeded 1,000. 



The following societies, most of them affiliated with the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, met in Cleveland at the same time: 



