SCIENCE 



Editorial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. Woodwaed, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickering, 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics; R. H. Thoeston, Engineering; Iea Remsen, Chemistry; 



J. Le Contb, Geology; Vi. M. Davis, Physiography; O. C. Maesh, Paleontology; "W. K. Brooks, 



C. Hart Mekriam, Zoology; S. H. Scuddee, Entomology; C. E. Bessey, N. L. Beitton, 



Botany; Henry F. Osboen, General Biology; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology; 



H. P. BowDlTCH, Physiology; J. S. Billings, Hygiene ; J. McKeen Caxtell, 



Psychology; Daniel G. Brinton, J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, Januaey 14, 1898. 



CONTENTS: 



Some of the Functions and Features of a Biological 

 Station: C.O.Whitman 37 



Recent Progress in Agricultural Chemistry (II.): 

 H. W. Wiley 44 



The Montreal Heeling of the Geological Society of 

 America. 3. F. Kemp 48 



The Section of Anthropology at Ithaca : W J 

 McGee 53 



Alonzo S. Kimball: T. C. M 54 



Current Notes on Physiography : — 

 Milne on Suboceanic Changes ; HafcJier's Explora- 

 tions in Patagonia ; The St. Croix Dalles, Minn. : 

 W. M. Davis 56 



Ou/rrent Notes on Anthropology : — 



The Unity of the Human Species; Local Ethno- 

 graphic Collections ; Bacial Geography of Europe : 

 D. G. Brinton 57 



Scientific Notes and News : — 



The United States Fish Commission ; The Washing- 

 ion Academy of Sciences; The Swedish Arctic 

 Expedition of 1S98 58 



University and Educational News 63 



Discussion and Correspondence : — ■ ' 

 The Third International Congress of Applied Chem- 

 istry ; Proposed Sylvester Memorial: Raphael 

 Meldola. Travel and Transportation : O. T. 

 Mason. ' ' Time Wasted ' : X. Zoology at the 

 University of Chicago: C. O. Whitman. In- 

 formation Desired : F. A. LuoAS 64 



Scientific Literature : — 



Schneider's Text-hooJc of General Lichenology : 

 Charles E. Bessey. Noyes' Organic Chemistry : 

 James F. Noeeis 68 



Societies and Academies : — 



TJie Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society : 

 Eugene A. Smith. Anthropological Society of 

 Washington: J. H. MoCORMlCK. Geological 

 Society of Washington: W. F. Moesell 70 



New Books ^. 72 



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

 for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Prof. J. 

 McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



S03IE OF THE FUNCTIONS AND FEATURES OF 

 A BIOLOGICAL STATION.* 



I HAVE a few considerations to offer on a 

 subject not quite new, but perhaps not 

 without some interest, to a Society of 

 Naturalists. The subject may be stated in 

 the form of a question: What are some 

 of the more essential functions and features 

 to be represented in a biological station? 

 This question is one that may fairly claim 

 the attention of a society organized for 

 'the discussion of methods of investiga- 

 tion and instruction, and other topics of in- 

 terest to investigators and teachers of 

 Natural History ; and for the adoption of 

 such measures as shall tend to the advance- 

 ment and diffusion of the knowledge of 

 Natural History.' 



I know of no other organization in this 

 country in which the different sides of 

 biology are more fully and widely repre- 

 sented, and no other in which the discus- 

 sion of such a question as I have stated has 

 been more explicitly invited. 



The question before us, as you perceive, 

 is one of ideals, something which we can 

 construct without the aid of an endowment, 

 and probably without any permanent loss 

 of protoplasm. And yet, what I have in 

 mind is not wholly imaginary, for it has 



*Address of the President of the Society of American 

 Naturalists prepared for the Ithaca meeting, 1897, 

 hut not delivered, owing to the unavoidable absence 

 of the vrriter. 



