SC TEE. 
EDITORIAL ComMitTTEE: S. NEwcoms, Mathematics; R. S. WoopwArp, Mechanics; E. C. PICKERING, 
Astronomy; T. C. MENDENHALL, Physics; R. H. THurstTon, Engineering; IRA REMSEN, Chemistry; 
J. LE ConTE, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; HENRY F. OSBORN, Paleontology ; W. K. 
Brooks, C. HART MERRIAM, Zoology; S. H. ScUDDER, Entomology; C. E. Brssry, N. L. 
Britton, Botany; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology; H. P. BowpitcH, Physiology; 
J. S. Binuines, Hygiene; J. MCKEEN CATTELL, Psychology; 
J. W. PowELL, Anthropology. 
Fripay, OcroBer 6, 1899. 
CONTENTS: 
Address by the President of the British Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science: SiR MIcH- 
AEL FOSTER..........:00cseeeeeeee sogonoE9bececbonbs0800e 465 
The International Catalogue of Scientific Litera- 
ULIRQ> ooacnoono cegopendaDHDODHOOD bsuaodagoND coQSBoSGHRRg0N005 482 
The American Association for the Advancement of 
Science :-— 
Section E.—Geology and Geography: PROFES- 
SOR ARTHUR HOLLICK..........c.ccseeecneceeeseeeeees 487 
Scientific Books :— 
Trouessart’s Catalogus Mammalium: Dr. T. 8. 
PALMER. Bather on Blastoidea: CHARLES 
ScHUCHERT. Képpen’s Grundlinien der Mari- 
timen Meteorologie: RK. DEC. WARD. Till- 
man’s Descriptive General Chemistry, Torrey’s 
Elementary Studies in Chemistry: PROFESSOR 
Ep@Aar F. SmitH. Books Received...............- 491 
Scientific Journals and Articles ..... 12.610 seceeereeeeeens 497 
Discussion and Correspondence :— 
Naturalism and Philosophy: PROFESSOR W. K. 
Brooks. Medical Sciences in the University : 
PROFESSOR W. H. HOWELL...............-...02000008 497 
Notes on Inorganic Chemistry: J. L. H.............- 499 
The New College Presidents..........2.ssesccsesseeesreeees 500 
LERPLOLeCliOM Offi BinS).02ea-\a nv sacecereeasseeseocesees 501 
PEN COMPANLONS Of) POLATIS:.. -.nc -naecseneieccenaeceeserse 50L 
Scientific Notes and News.............s.+cceeceeesascovee «+ 502 
University and Educational News.........2.cscceeeeeeees 504 
MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended 
for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Profes- 
sor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE 
BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD- 
VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.* 
He who until a few minutes ago was your 
president said somewhere at the meeting at 
Bristol, and said with truth, that among 
the qualifications needed for the high honor 
of Presidency of the British Association for 
the Advancement of Science, that of being 
old was becoming more and more dominant. 
He who is now attempting to speak to you 
feels that he is rapidly earning that distinc- 
tion. But the Association itself is older 
than its President ; it has seen pass away 
the men who, wise in their generation, 
met at York on September 27, 1831, to 
found it; it has seen other great men who 
in bygone years served it as presidents, or 
otherwise helped it on, sink one after 
another into the grave. Each year, indeed, 
when it plants its flag as a signal of its 
yearly meeting, that flag floats halfmast 
high in token of the great losses which the 
passing year has brought. This year is no 
exception ; the losses, indeed, are perhaps 
unwontedly heavy. I will not attempt to 
call over the sad roll-call; but I must say 
a word about one who was above most 
others a faithful and zealous friend of the 
Association. Sir Douglas Galton joined the 
Association in 1860. From 1871 to 1895, 
as one of the General Secretaries, he bore, 
and bore to the great good of the Associa- 
* Dover Meeting, 1899. 
