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Friday, February 9, 1917 



CONTENTS 

 The Philosopliy of Geology and tlie Order of 

 the State : De. John M. Clakkb 125 



Beports of Subcommittees of the Committee 

 of One Hundred on Scientific Research of 

 the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Astronomy: Pr(Dfessok E. C. Pickering... 135 



Chemistry: Peofessoe J. Stieglitz 136 



Research Funds: Professor Charles E. 

 Cross 136 



Scientific Notes and News 137 



University and Educational News 140 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Fur Seal Census of 1916: George 

 Archibald Clark. Petrmikevitch's Mor- 

 phology of Invertebrate Types: Professor 

 J. H. Van Cleave 141 



Scientific BooTcs: — 

 Gregory on Discovery : Professor T. Brails- 

 ford EoBERTSON. Balcer on the Relations 

 of Mollushs to Fish: Dr. Henry A. Pilsbrt. 143 



Special Articles: — • 



The Overlapping of the Leaf Sheath: A. B. 

 Conner, K. E. Kaepbe 144 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Report of the Treasurer for 1916: De. E. S. 

 Woodward 145 



The Americani Astronomical Society: Pro- 

 FESSOE Henry Noeris Eussell 146 



MSS. intended for publication and boots, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to Professor J. MciCeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE PHILOSOPHY OF GEOLOGY AND 

 THE ORDER OF THE STATEi 



Once each year we come together to re- 

 new our strength, like Antaeus, by touching 

 the earth. 



I am conscious of taking some degree of 

 liberty in departing from the usual form of 

 this established function — the annual ad- 

 dress. It would gratify me and might in 

 some measure have diverted or persuaded 

 you, if this occasion were given to the illu- 

 mination of some specific technical theme. 

 But the spirit of the hour seems to impel 

 me rather to read from out my experience 

 and observation, or at least to portray, as I 

 see it, some part of the obligation of the 

 state to our science and the responsibility 

 of this science to the state. 



The occasion is perhaps opportune, not 

 so much in this place of meeting which 

 happens to be the seat of government of 

 but one of the many states here repre- 

 sented, and in the presence of members 

 from two great federated governments ; but 

 essentially because, for the sake of all 

 parties of interest, we must recognize more 

 clearly the civic element in geological sci- 

 ence and insist more pertinaciously on the 

 immediate as well as the ultimate depend- 

 ence of a state, if organized to endure, upon 

 the demonstrated laws of this science. 



I wish I might extend to my colleagues 

 among the official geologists of many states 

 an assurance that this address is to be de- 

 voted to some added demonstration of the 

 obligation of the state to exploit to the ut- 

 most its geological resources, for the sake 



1 President 's address before the Geological So- 

 ciety of America, Albany, December 28, 1916. 



