SCIENCE 



Feiday, February 19, 1915 



CONTENTS 

 Proilems of Geographic Influence: Pko- 

 PESSOE Albert Perry Beigham 261 



Lewis Lindsey Dyche: Chancellor Prank 

 Strong 280 



The Bonaparte Fund of the Paris Academy of 

 Sciences 282 



Scientific Notes and News 282 



ty and Educational News 287 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 A Typical Case: Professor E. C. Picker- 

 ing. A Sphenoidal Sinus in the Dinosaurs: 

 Professor Eoy L. Moodie 288 



Scientific Boolcs: — • 



Luciani's Suman Physiology: Professor 

 W. B. Cannon. Thomson's The Wonder of 

 Life: Professor T. D. A. Cockerell. 289 



Special Articles: — 



Microdissection Studies on, the Germ Cell: 

 Professor Robert Chambers, Jr. Some 

 New Cases of Apogamy in Ferns: W. N. 

 Steil 290 



The American Society for Pharmacology and 

 Experimental Therapeutics : Dr. John Auee. 294 



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

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

 on-Hudson, N. Y. 



PROBLEMS OF GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCE-^ 

 Four points of view will be taken witli 

 reference to our theme : its importance, its 

 difficulties, the related sciences, and fields 

 of investigation. 



"We deal here with the heart of geography. 

 The ties, infinite in number, which bind 

 life to the earth lead surely up to man. No 

 other phase is so insistent and so appealing 

 as the earth's influence upon our kind. 

 The plant and animal world joins itself to 

 our physical habitat to enrich our environ- 

 ment and multiply our problems. The first 

 members of this association came into it 

 from the field of geology, and these men 

 have, from meeting to meeting and from 

 year to year, marched steadily up toward 

 the human goal of our science. In Mr. 

 Roorbaeh's^ recent symposium on the Trend 

 of Modern Geography,^ by far the larger 

 number directed their call for research 

 toward the field of geographic influence. 

 Whether we speak of influence, or response, 

 or adjustment, matters little. Terminology 

 will grow unbidden, if we are exact in our 

 thinking. 



Here lies the weight of our theme. We 

 all have a duty to do in view of the ill- 

 founded and doubtful conclusions too often 

 set forth, and in view of the vast extent of 

 the unknown in this field. The factors of 

 influence are not carefully isolated. What 

 these forces really do and how they do it 

 are not shown. Ripley holds it certain 

 "that the immediate future of this science 



1 President's address before the Association of 

 American Geographers, read at the eleventh an- 

 nual meeting, Chicago, December 30, 1914. 



2 "The Trend of Modern Geography," Bull. 

 Am. Geog. Soc, November, 1914. 



