SCIENCE 



Friday, February 14, 1913 



CONTENTS 



The Geological Society of America: — 

 Pleistocene Geology of New Yorlc State: 

 Professob Herman L. Fairchild 239 



Scientific Notes and News 249 



University and Educational News 252 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



U7iiversity Registration Statistics: Pro- 

 fessor EUDOLF ToMBO, Jr. Building 

 Stones and Clay Frodiicts: Dr. Henry 

 Leighton 253 



Quotations : — 



Correspondence between the President of 

 Wesleyan University and the Professor of 

 Economics and Social Science 254 



Scientific Books: — 



Hyatt and Pilsbry's Manual of Conchol- 

 ogy: Professor T. D. A. Cockebell. 

 Lemoine's Geologic du Bassin de Paris: 

 Dr. Edward W. Berry 255 



Scientific Journals and Articles 257 



The Diagrams in Professor Thorndike's Ad- 

 dress on Educational Diagnosis 258 



Special Articles: — 



A Wild Host-plant of the Boll Weevil in 

 Arizona: Dr. O. F. Cook 259 



The American Society of Zoologists: Pro- 

 fessor "W. C. Curtis 26 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Society of Besearch WorTcers in Ex- 

 perimental Biology : Lewis W. Fetzeb . . . 274 



MSS. intended for publication and boots, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattcll, Ga 

 on-Hudson, N. Y. 



PLEISTOCENE GEOLOGY OF NEW YOBK 

 STATE .'^ I 



INTRODUCTION 



The primacy of New York among the 

 states in population, wealth, manufacture 

 and commerce is based on its physical char- 

 acters — geologic structure, physiographic 

 relief and geographic relations. The state 

 has the greatest range and perfection in its 

 stratigraphic series and the greatest variety 

 in physiographic features. In scenery 

 other states may possess single features of 

 surpassing grandeur and beauty, like the 

 Colorado Grand Canyon, Yosemite Valley, 

 Crater Lake, the mountains of the Cordil- 

 lera or the snow-capped volcanic cones of 

 the northwest, but for abundance and va- 

 riety of beautiful scenery of educational 

 value New York may claim first place. In 

 the variety and excellence of Pleistocene 

 phenomena the state probably excels any 

 other equal area of the earth's surface. 

 This is due to the varied and unusual 

 physiography combined with a favoring 

 attitude of the area in relation to the con- 

 tinental glacier. The features of special 

 excellence occur largely in the western part 

 of the state. These are the series of more 

 than twenty parallel, north-sloping valleys 

 which hold the unique series of twelve so- 

 called Finger lakes ; the remarkable succes- 

 sion of glacial lakes in the Ontario drain- 

 age area ; the conspicuous, abandoned chan- 

 nels of the rivers that drained those lakes; 

 the surpassing display of drumlins, of 

 kames and eskers; the fine series of mo- 



' Annual address of the president of the Geolog- 

 ical Society of America, read on December 28, 

 1912. The numerous maps which illustrated this 

 address are here omitted. 



