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. 



Feiday, October 9, 1908 

 contents 



Address of the President to the Mathemat- 

 ical OMd Physical Section of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence: Db. W. N. Shaw 457 



Graphic Art in Science: Db. A. W. Lee .... 471 



The Marine Biological Station of Roscoff: 

 Pbofessob J. Playfaie McMukeich 479 



The Bogoslof Islands: Pbofessob J. C. 

 Bbanneb 480 



Scientific Notes and News 480 



University and Educational News 482 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Administration at the University of 

 Illinois : Pbofessob Geo. T. Kemp 483 



Quotations: — 

 At the University of Oklahoma 488 



Scientific Books: — 



Goerens's Introduction to Metallography: 

 Pbofessob Heney Fay 489 



Scientific Journals and Articles 490 



The Rule of Priority in Zoological Nomen- 

 clatmre 490 



Special Articles: — 



Some Results of a Series of Tests made by 

 the Wire-basket Method for Determining 

 the Manurial Requirements of Soils : Feank 

 T. Dillingham. Sudan III. deposited in 

 the Egg and transmitted to the Chick: 

 Pbofessob Simon H. Gage and Susanna 

 Phelps Gage 491 



Geology at the British Association: Pbo- 

 fessob Wm. H. Hobbs 495 



MSS. lutended for publication and booke, etc., Intended fsi 

 leview Bhuuld be sent to the Editor of Scibncb, GaFrisoo-on' 

 Hudson. N. y. 



ADDRESS OF TEE PRESIDENT TO THE 

 MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL SEC- 

 TION OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIA- 

 TION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT 

 OF SCIENCE ■" 



It is with much misgiving that I en- 

 deavor to discharge the traditional duty of 

 the president of a section of the British 

 Association. So many other duties seem 

 to find a natural resting-place with any one 

 who has to reckon at the same time with 

 the immediate requirements of the public, 

 the claims of scientific opinion, and the in- 

 terests of posterity, that, unless you are 

 content with such contribution towards the 

 advancement of the sciences of mathe- 

 matics and physics as my daily experience 

 enables me to offer you, I shall find the 

 task impossible. 



With a leaning towards periodicity per- 

 haps slightly unorthodox I have looked 

 back to see what they were doing in Sec- 

 tion A fifty years ago. Richard Owen was 

 president of the association, William Whe- 

 well was president of Section A for the 

 fifth time. 



At the meeting of 1858 they must have 

 spent some time over nineteen very sub- 

 stantial reports on researches in science, 

 which included a large section of Mallett's 

 facts and theory of earthquake phenom- 

 ena, magnetic surveys of Great Britain 

 and of Ireland, and, oddly enough, an ac- 

 count of the self-recording anemometer by 

 Beckley; perhaps a longer time was re- 

 quired for fifty-seven papers contributed 

 to the section, but very little was spent 



'Dublin, 1908. 



