SCIENCE 



a weekly journal devoteb to the advancement of science, publishinq the 



official notices and proceedings of the american association 



for the advancement of science. 



Friday, December 4, 1908 william keith brooks 



At sunrise November the twelfth there 



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. „ „ „ passed peaceiully away, at his home 



William Keith Brooks: Pbofessob E. A. <<-r^ ■ , • i ,, , , ^ t , -n 



Andbews 777 Brightside, on the shores oi Lake Ko- 



The Convocation Week Meetings of Scientifio land, one of the foremost of the few 



Societies 786 greatest of American zoologists. 



The American Mining Congress 787 William Keith BrOoks owed his early 



The American Institute of Chemical Engineers 788 ^^^^^^^-^^^ i^ p^^t to the excellent public 



VocatioTis of Tale Alumni 789 i , ^ i j- /~n i j rw.- j • 



school teachers of Cleveland, Ohio, and in 



The Charles William Eliot Fumd 790 , , , , ,.■,■■,■, -,, 



„, „ . „ , , . , , ,, ,, , part to such elements of his boyhood s en- 



The Darwin Celebration of the New York . . ■,-,■,■ 



Academy of Sciences 790 vironment as his native bent led him to 



Scientific Notes and News 791 Pick out and assimilate. Among such in- 



Vniversity and Educational News 794 A^^ences were collections of f ossils, stored in 



Discussion and Correspondence.— ^ neighbor's barn and the wonder of the 



A Reply to the Communication of Messrs. flocks of carrier pigeons that Still came 



Loeb, Maaiwell, Burnett and Robertson: j.-u t ^ j. ^ j t. jv ii, j 



Db. chaeles f). Snyder. An Economical over the lake t» be destroyed by clubs and 



Insect Box: Pbofessob Albebt M. Reese. guns on the bluffs, darkening the air till 



Lights attracting Injects: Owen Bbtant 795 ^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ "keep." 



The American University and the College ° -^ 



President 798 aquaria, and the back-yard pond that was 



Scientific Books: — sometimes visited by a migrating carrier 



Wright's Principles of Microscopy: Pbo- ■ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^j ^^^^ 



FESSOB S. H. Gage. Plate's Selections- ^ " 



prinzip und Probleme der Artbildung : delight in the study of the habits of 



f.TX^.-r ^L of NtJ^nmlrica-'vZ aquatic insects. And it was there that was 



FESSOB S. W. WiLLisTON. Hais On Stellar learned an indelible lesson of the power of 



Evolution: Pbofessob Chabi^s Lane Poob 799 ^^^^^^^ ^^^ mechanisms, by the observa- 



Action of the Radium Emanation on Solu- . _aj_iiiiij. 



tions of Copper Salt: Mme. Curie and tion of a dragonfly that had lost most 



MixE. Gi-EDiTscH 805 of its machinery except that of the head, 



Special Articles:— yet continued to chew and swallow food, 



Momentum Effects in Electric Discharge: ,.,_., - ,, 



Pbofessob Fbancis E. Nipheh. Spinal which, like the water drunk by Mun- 



Shock: F. H. Pike. A New Species of the chausen's bisected horse, passed steadily 



Genus Moropus: Dr. W. J. Holland. An + • j. +1, -^ 



Electrical Resistance Method for the Rapid O^^^ l^t^O ^"^^ OP^n VOia. 



Determination of the Moisture Content of He was not given to athletic sports. 



Grain: Lyman J. Briggs 807 ^^^^^^ winning a prize for excellence in 



Societies and Aeadernies.— calisthenics. Contemplative and studious, 



The National Academy of Sciences. Scien- ^ •■ i ■ 



tific Association of the Johns Hopkins he desired to enter college, but his mother 



University: Charles K. Swartz. The ([[^ jjot approve and he began life in his 



Botanical Societv of Washington: Wm. E. n ^t • i- i tt i, 



Saffobd, Haven'Metcalp . . 814 father s counting house. Here he ex- 



