SCIENCE 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Friday, September 18, 1908 

 contents 



The Address of the President of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence : Dr. Feancis Dabwin 353 



Doctorates conferred by American Universi- 

 ties 362 



Scientific Notes and News 369 



University and Educational News 371 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Schaeherle and Geological Climates: De. 

 Joseph Baeeell 371 



Quotations : — 

 The PuUic Health 373 



Scientific Books : — 



Pirsson's Rocks and Bock Minerals: Peo- 

 PESSOR Chaeles H. Waeeen. Simroth's 

 Die Pendulationstheorie : Eobekt E. Rich- 

 AEDSON 374 



Morehouse's Comet: Pkofessoe Edwin B. 

 Feost 379 



Special Articles: — 



Note upon the Structure of the Santa Oata- 

 lina Gneiss, Arizona: Pbopessob William; 

 P. Blake. Physiographic Sketch of Lewis 

 County, N. T.: T. A. Bendeat 379 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section E: Bailet Willis 381 



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THE ADDRESS OP THE PRESIDENT OF THE 

 BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD- 

 VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE'— I. 



Before entering on the subject of my ad- 

 dress, I may be allowed to refer to the loss 

 which the British Association has sus- 

 tained in the death of Lord Kelvin. He 

 joined the association in 1847, and has 

 been for more than fifty years a familiar 

 figure at our meetings. This is not the oc- 

 casion to speak of his work in the world or 

 of what he was to his friends, but rather 

 of his influence on those who were person- 

 ally unknown to him. It seems to me 

 characteristic of him that something of 

 his vigor and of his personal charm was 

 felt far beyond the circles of his intimate 

 associates, and many men and women who 

 never exchanged a word with Lord Kel- 

 vin, and are in outer darkness as to his 

 researches, will miss his genial presence 

 and feel themselves the poorer to-day. 

 By the death of Sir John Evans the asso- 

 ciation is deprived of another faithful 

 friend. He presided at Toronto in 1897, 

 and since he joined the association in 1861 

 had been a regular attendant at our meet- 

 ings. The absence of his cheerful person- 

 ality and the loss of his wise counsels will 

 be widely felt. 



May I be permitted one other digression 

 before I come to my subject? There has 

 not been a botanical president of the Brit- 

 ish Association since the Norwich meet- 

 ing forty years ago, when Sir Joseph 

 Hooker was in the chair, and in "eloquent 

 and felicitous words" (to quote my fath- 



' Dublin, 1908. 



