December 27, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



899 



quarto Journal of the society published in 

 commemoration of the celebration last March 

 of the one hundredth anniversary of its foun- 

 dation. The volume consists of 753 pages 

 illustrated by 59 plates, six of which are in 

 colors. The work has been printed on spe- 

 cially prepared pajjer and is a noble specimen 

 of typography. It is divided into two sec- 

 tions, the first consisting of the proceedings 

 of the centenary meeting, an account of the 

 banquet, a list of delegates, and a selection 

 from the letters of praise and congratulation 

 received from corresponding institutions at 

 home and abroad, while the second part con- 

 tains the following memoirs contributed by 

 members and correspondents: 



' ' Humaa Spermatogenesis, Spermatocytes and 

 Spermiogenesis : A Study of Inheritance, ' ' by 

 Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr. 



"A Contribution to the Paleontology of Trini- 

 dad," by Carlotta J. Maury, with plates drawn 

 by Gilbert Dennison Harris. 



' ' Early Adaptation in Feeding Habits of the 

 Starfishes," by John M. Clarke. 



"Mimicry in Boreal American Lepidoptera, " 

 by Henry Skinner. 



' ' The Petrographic Province of Neponset Val- 

 ley, Massachusetts," by Florence Bascom. 



' ' Description of a New Fossil Porpoise of the 

 Genus DelpMnodan from the Miocene Formation 

 of Maryland," by Frederick W. True. 



"A Synopsis of the Fishes of the Genus Masta- 

 cemielus, ' ' by George A. Boulenger. 



"The Faunal Divisions of Eastern North Amer- 

 ica in Eelation to Vegetation, ' ' by Spencer Trotter. 



' ' The Eelation of Smell, Taste and the Common 

 Chemical Sense in Vertebrates, ' ' by George 

 Howard Parker. 



"On the Supposed Tertiary Antarctic Conti- 

 nent," by Sir WOliam Turner Thistelton Dyer. 



' ' Mollusk Fauna of Northwest America, ' ' by 

 William Nealy Dall. 



"The Eelation of Plant Protoplasm to its En- 

 vironment," by John Muirhead Macfarlane. 



' ' Tetraplasy, the Law of the Four Inseparable 

 Factors of Evolution," by Henry Fairfield Osborn. 



"The Phylogenetic Value of Color Characters 

 in Birds," by Witmer Stone. 



"Further Experiments with Mutations in Eye- 

 color of Drosophila: the Loss of the Orange Fac- 

 tor," by Thomas Hunt Morgan. 



' ' On the Eadiation of Energy, ' ' by James Ed- 

 mund Ives. 



' ' The History and Zoological Position of the 

 Albino Eat, ' ' by Henry Herbert Donaldson. 



' ' The Gorgonians of the Brazilian Coast, ' ' by 

 Addison E. Verrill. 



' ' New Observations in Chemistry and Mineral- 

 ogj)" by George Augustus Koenig. 



' ' A Study of the Variations and Zoogeography 

 of Lign-us in Florida," by Henry Augustus 

 Pilsbry. 



"Analyse der Siid-Amerikanischen Helieeen, " 

 by H. von Ihering. 



"Experimental Studies in Nuclear and Cell 

 Division in the Eggs of Crepidula," by Edwin G. 

 Conklin. 



A view of the academy's building serves as 

 a frontispiece to the volume. 



A copy of the academy's first publication 

 in 1817, an unpretentious small octavo, was 

 placed beside the sumptuous volume just 

 issued. The earlier issue was printed on 

 paper which has held its own through the 

 wear and tear of more than four-score years 

 and ten, although by no means specially man- 

 ufactured for the purpose. A distinction was 

 given to the volume by contributions from 

 Ord, Say, ISTuttall, Waterhouse, Maclure and 

 Lesueur and by the really beautiful engravings 

 of the last named naturalist, but the contrast 

 of this first publication with the volume just 

 completed is not so great as that of the acad- 

 emy of 1817, housed in three little rooms up 

 Gilliam's Court with the society as now estab- 

 lished and endowed. 



The chairman of the library committee, Dr. 

 Thomas H. Fenton, spoke at the last meeting 

 of the academy of the commemorative volume 

 as a fine specimen of book making and of the 

 value of its contents as contributions to sci- 

 ence, calling special attention to its prompt- 

 ness of issue, as distinguished from the delay 

 usual in the appearance of such memorial 

 publications. He offered the following which 

 was unanimously adopted: 



Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting 

 that the sincere thanks of the academy are due to 

 the recording secretary. Dr. Edward J. Nolan, for 

 his imtiring zeal and industry in the preparation 

 and editing of the splendid memorial volume pre- 



