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. 



Feidat, March 19, 1909 



COlfTENTS 

 The First Pan-American Scientific Congress, 

 held in Santiago, Chile: Dk. W. H. Holmes 441 



Martin Hans Boye 448 



The Darwin Centenary 449 



Scientific Notes and News 449 



University and Educational News 454 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Adulteration and the Condition of An- 

 alytical Chemistry among the Ancients: 

 C. A. Bbowne. Evolutionary Collections as 

 Monuments to Darwin: Pbofessob Bubt 

 G. WiLDEE 455 



Quotations : — 

 The Future of Yale 458 



Scientific Books: — 



Johnstone on Conditions of Life in the 

 Sea: Pbofessob Wm. E. Ritteb. Furman's 

 Manual of Practical Assaying: Db. Henbt 

 C. BoTNTON. Worthington's Study of 

 Splashes : Pbofessob K. W. Wood 461 



Special Articles: — 



Note concerning Inheritance in Sweet Corn : 

 De. E. M. East 465 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section B — Physics: Pbofessob Alfeed D. 

 CoiE 467 



The American Physiological Society : De. Reid 

 Hunt 478 



The American Association of Economic Ento- 

 mologists : A. F. BuEGESS 479 



Societies and Academies: — 



The New York Academy of Sciences, Sec- 

 tion of Biology: L. Hussakof. The An- 

 thropological Society of Washington: John 

 R. Sw ANTON 479 



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

 review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, Js. Y. 



THE FIRST PAN-AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC 



CONGRESS, HELD IN SANTIAGO, CHILE, 



DECEMBER 25, 1908-yIANUARY 6, 1909 



The first Latin- American Scientific Con- 

 gress, whicli was convened in Buenos 

 Aires in 1898, was projected by the 

 Scientific Society of tliat city, and success- 

 fully carried out. It was attended by 

 representatives of twelve Latin-American 

 republics, and yielded results of sucb im- 

 portance that a second congress was con- 

 vened at Montevideo in 1901 ; and this was 

 followed by a third at Rio Janeiro in 1905. 

 Arrangements were made for a fourth 

 meeting at Santiago, Chile, in 1908, and 

 the Chilean organization committee,^ feel- 

 ing that the activities of the congress, 

 which had been limited to the discussion of 

 Latin-American problems and interests 

 chiefly, should be extended to a fully Pan- 

 American scope, decided that the Santiago 

 meeting should be known as "The First 

 Pan-American Scientific Congress." 



The organization committee, through the 

 medium of the Chilean government, ex- 

 tended to the government of the United 

 States an invitation to participate. Sec- 

 retary Root brought the matter to the at- 

 tention of President Roosevelt,^ and the 



' The organization comniittee was constituted as 

 follows: Honorary President, Marcial Martinez; 

 President, Valentin Letelier; Vice-president, Man- 

 uel E. Ballesteros; General Secretary, Eduardo 

 Poirier; Assistant Secretary, Augusto Vicuna S.; 

 Treasurer, Octavio Maira; Alejandro Alvarez, 

 Jose Ramon Gutietrez, Salvador Izquierdo S., 

 Alejandro del Rio, Miguel Varas, Luis Espejo 

 Varas, Anselmo Hevia Riquelme, Vicente Izqui- 

 erdo, Domingo V. Santa Maria. 



' The President : The government of Chile has 

 invited the government of the United States to 



