SCIENCE 



Editorial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E, S. Woodwaed, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickering, As- 

 tronomy ; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics ; E. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Ira Remsen, Chemistry ; 

 J. Le Conte, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; O. C. Maesh, Paleontology; W. K. Beooks, 

 Invertebrate Zoology ; C. Hart Mereiam, Vertebrate Zoology ; S. H. Souddee, Entomology ; 

 N. L. Beitton, Botany ; Heney F. Osboen, General Biology ; H. P. Bowditch, 

 Physiology ; J. S. Billings, Hygiene ; J. MoKebn Cattell, Psychology ; 

 Daniel G. Beinton, J. "W. Powell, Anthropology ; 

 G. Brown Goode, Scientific Organization. 



Friday, January 24, 1896. 



CONTENTS: 

 The American Physiological Society : Feedeeic S. 

 Lee 109 



2he Philadelphia Meeting of the American Psycholog- 

 ical Association : Edmund C. Sanfoed 119 



Tenth Annual 3IeeUng of the Iowa Academy of Sci- 

 ences : Herbert Osborn 124 



California Science Association : M. W. Haskell..126 



Current Notes on Physiography ■' — 

 Annual Range of Temperature of the Ocean Su7-- 

 face; Winds of the Pacific Ocean; Abnormal and 

 Solitary Waves: W. M. Davis. Types of Low- 

 land Coasts: F. P. G 127 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 

 Slcin Painting in South America ; ^sop in Aztec ; 

 The Reading of Quipus : D. G. Beinton 128 



Scientific Notes and News : — 



Astronomical: H. J. Russian Science News: 

 George Bbuce Halsted. General 129 



University and Educational News 133 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Marsh Gas under Ice : Ira Eemskn. 'Profes- 

 sors^ Garner and Gates : J. McK. C 133 



Scientific Literature : — - 



T)ie Psychology of Number : H. B. Fine. Ex- 

 perimental Farms : B. E. Fernow. Etard's Les 

 Nouvelles Theories Chimiques: Ferdinand G. 

 Weichmann 134 



Scientific Journals : — 



American Chemical Journal: J. ELLIOTT GIL- 

 PIN. 27(6 Monist 138 



Societies and Academies : — 



Biological Society of Washington : F. A. Lucas. 

 National Geographic Society ; Geological Society of 

 Washington: W. F. Morsell. Ihe Anthro- 

 pological Society of Washington: GEORGE E. 

 Stetson. New York Academy of Sciences: W. 

 Hallock. Geological Conference of Harvard 

 University: T. A. Jaggar, Jr. The Academy 

 of Science of St. Louis: Wm. Trelease 139 



New Books 144 



MSS. intended for publicalion and books etc, intended 

 for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Prof. J. 

 McKeen Cattell, Garriaon-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The eighth annual meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Physiological Society was held in 

 Philadelphia on December 27th and 28th, 

 1895. The meeting was preceded by the 

 usual smoke talk upon the evening of De- 

 cember 26th. Three of the four formal ses- 

 sions of the Society were held at the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, the fourth in the 

 physiological laboratory of the Jefferson 

 Medical College. 



The following communications were pre- 

 sented and discussed: 

 1. R. H. Chittenden : Tlie mucin of the 



white fibrous connective tissue. 



The mucin vi^as prepared from ox-tendons 

 by various methods, more or less analogous 

 to those employed by Loebisch, but the 

 products were all characterized by a com- 

 paratively high content of sulphur (2.30 

 per cent.), whereas tendon-mucin has here- 

 tofore been considered as having a low con- 

 tent of this element (0.81 per cent) . The 

 various results attained point to the proba- 

 bility that white fibrous tissue contains two 

 or more mucins, closely related in general 

 properties and reactions, but dissimilar in 

 composition, owing possibly to variations 

 in the proportion of proteid and carbohy- 

 drate radicles entering into the compound. 

 In the several products analyzed, however, 

 the percentage of sulphur was constant, the 

 variability being confined to the carbon 

 and nitrogen. 



