June 11, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



945 



" The British Guiana Expedition of Indiana 

 University and the Carnegie Museum," by Dr. C. 

 H. Eigenmann. (Illustrated.) 



" A New Museum Case," by Dr. Hermon C. 

 Bumpus. 



•• The Educational Work of the Buffalo Society 

 of Natural Sciences," by Mr. Henry E. Howland. 



" Suggestions for an Educational Exhibit of the 

 Mollusca," by Mr. Frank C. Baker. 



" Present Educational Work of the Philadel- 

 phia Museums," by Mr. Chas. K. Toothaker. 



" What shall we do with our Skeletons and our 

 Fossils?" by Mr. Henry L. Ward. (Read by title 

 only.) 



" The History of Commerce in Museums," by 

 Mr. W. H. Schofif. 



" Photographic Enlarging Methods," by Mr. 

 Fred. D. Maisch. 



" The Adaptation of a Library to a Commercial 

 and Economic Museum," by Mr. John J. Mac- 

 farlane. 



" Some of the Most Recent Museum Instru- 

 ments and Appliances," by Dr. M. J. Greenman. 



" The Planning and Fitting of Exhibition 

 Rooms, Especially Picture Galleries," by Mr. Wm. 

 M. R. French. 



"Art Museums and the Conservation of Monu- 

 ments," by Mr. Benjamin Ives Gilman. 



" The Desirable Projecti,on of Art Museums as 

 suggested by the Desirable Classification of Art 

 Libraries," by Mr. William H. Goodyear. 



" The Training of Curators," by Mrs. Cornelius 

 Stevenson. 



" Problems of Modernizing an Old Museum," 

 by Mr. Witmer Stone. 



" Exhibition Cases without Shelves," by Mr. 

 Frank C. Baker. 



"A Device for exhibiting Fadable Minerals," 

 by Dr. Oliver C. Farrington. 



" The Uses of a Collection of Historical Coins," 

 by Dr. T. L. Comparette. 



" Popular versus Scientific Arrangement of 

 Museum Exhibits," by Dr. James E. Talmage. 



" Special Work of a State Museum," by Dr. A. 

 R. Crook. 



" Progress of the Ohio Archeological Atlas," by 

 Professor William C. Mills. 



These papers will appear in full in the annual 

 volume of proceedings, to be published by the 

 secretary during the summer. 



The following officers were elected by the asso- 

 ■ciation : 



President — ^Frederic A. Lucas, curator-in-chief 



of the Museums of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences. 



First Vice-president — Frederick J. V. Skiff, 

 director of the Field Museum of Natural History, 

 Chicago. 



Second Vice-president — Edward S. Morse, di- 

 rector of the Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass. 



Secretary — Paul M. Rea, director of the Charles- 

 ton Museum, Charleston, S. C. 



Treasurer — William P. Wilson, director of the 

 Philadelphia Museums, Philadelphia. 



Councilors (to serve for three years) — James 

 E. Talmage, director of the Deseret Museum, Salt 

 Lake City, Utah; William J. Holland, director of 

 the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. 



The fifth annual meeting will be held in Buffalo 

 in 1910. 



The association is preparing " A Directory of 

 Museums of Art, History and Science in North 

 and South America," and all museums which have 

 not received circulars requesting information for 

 incorporation in this work are urged to com- 

 municate at once with the secretary. 



Paul M. -Rea, 



Secretary 



The Chableston Museum, 

 Chaeleston, S. C. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



At the 215th meeting of the society, held at 

 the Cosmos Club, on Wednesday evening, February 

 24, 1909, Mr. David White presented an informal 

 communication on the " Occurrence of Resin in 

 Paleozoic Coals," and exhibited specimens of such 

 fossil resins from the Coal Measures of Iowa, 

 Illinois and Indiana. Amber and other fossil 

 resins occur mostly in Mesozoic and Tertiary coals 

 that have not been much altered, but in coals that 

 have suffered regional metamorphism they are as 

 a rule absent. Where devolatilization has ad- 

 vanced so far that the percentage of fixed carbon 

 is 65 or more they are seldom found. 



Correlation of the Books of the Boston Region: 



Laueence LaFoege. 



After a brief rgsrumfi of the development of the 

 current ideas on the subject, the following out- 

 line grouping of the various rocks was described. 



There are two series of sediments, Cambrian and 

 Carboniferous. For the fossiliferous beds of lower 

 Cambrian age the name Weymouth formation has 

 been proposed, while the Braintree slate contains a 



