SCIENCE 



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Friday, Mabch 2, 1917 



CONTENTS 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Geographical Distribution of Marine Algce : 

 Peofessob W. a. Setchell 197 



The Carnegie Institution of Washington and 

 Scientific Research: De. E. S. Woodwaed. 204 



Scientific Events: — 



Wireless Telegraph Installation at the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago; The Lease of the Trop- 

 ical Botanical Station at Cinchona; The 

 Council of National Defense; The Annual 

 Meeting of the National Academy of Sci- 

 ences 208 



Scientifio Notes and News 211 



University and Educational News 213 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Phosphate Experiments: Peofessoe Cyeil 

 G. Hopkins. The Organisation Mania: In- 

 DivrDUAL. Science as Contraband: Pro- 

 pessoe Howaed C. Waeebn. Trimmed 

 Magazines and Efficiency Experts: De. E. 

 W. Gudgee 213 



Quotations : — 



Intellect and the War 216 



Scientific BooTcs: — 



Miller's Introduction to Historical Geology: 



Peofessoe G. D. Haeeis 218 



Special Articles: — 



Boiling Buffalo Clover Seed: A. D. McNaie. 



Goldfish as Embryological Material: De. 



EoBEET T. Hance 220 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section M — Agriculture: E. W. Allen 222 



Societies and Academies: — 

 The Anthropological Society of Washington: 

 Eeances Densmoeb 224 



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

 review should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison. 

 on-Hudson, N. Y. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF 

 THE MARINE ALGJEi 



In connection with some work I am at- 

 tempting along the line of geographical 

 distribution, it has become desirable to 

 make some sort of a survey of the entire 

 literature of the marine algae, to classify it 

 and to note the influence of various writers 

 in developing the different lines of geo- 

 graphical study. The progress of the 

 knowledge of the marine algae has been 

 slow in comparison with that of most other 

 groups and the progress of our knowledge 

 of the geographical distribution has been 

 slower still. Much of this is due to the 

 comparatively limited access to living ma- 

 terial, the difficulties of collection, and the 

 lack of any extensive economic value. 



In attempting to arrange the literature, 

 as indicating the progress of thought and 

 development, it has seemed best to sepa- 

 rate the lines of work formally, and some- 

 what arbitrarily, into several more or less 

 distinct, yet necessarily overlapping and 

 intertwined groups of subjects. The sub- 

 jects finally selected as bearing either di- 

 rectly or secondarily on geographical dis- 

 tribution are five, viz., taxonomy, morphol- 

 ogy and development, fioristics, physiology 

 and geographical distribution. It is, of ne- 

 cessity, an impossible matter to segregate 

 all the literature and arrange it definitely 

 under one or another of these groups. Cer- 

 tain writers have written along two or more 

 of these lines and in the later literature, 

 particularly, several lines of thought and 



1 Address of the vice-president and chairman of 

 Section G, Botany, American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, New York, December 27 

 1916. 



