SCIENCE 



A WEEKLV JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Friday, December 7, 1906. 



CONTENTS. 



The Budapest Conference of the International 

 Geodetic Association: O. H. Tittmann, Db. 

 John F. Hayfobd 713 



Scientific Books: — 



Morse on Mars and its Mystery: Professor 

 William H. Pickering. Galloway's Zool- 

 ogy: C. W. H 719 



Scientific Journals and Articles '. . 721 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Torrey Botanical Club: C. Stuart 

 Gager 721 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Policy of the U. S. Geological Survey 

 and its Bearing upon Science and Educa- , 

 tion: Professor J. C. Branner. Evolu- 

 tion {Cook) and Mutation (Waagen) : Dr. 

 A. E. Ortmann. Discontinuous Variation: 

 Dr. D. T. MacDougal. The Public Health 

 Defence League: H. W 722 



Special Articles: — 

 A Statistical Study of American Men of 

 Science, III.; The Distribution of American 

 Men of Science: Professor J. McKjeen 

 Cattell. Brachiopod Nomenclature: S. S. 

 BUCKMAN 732 



Current Notes on Meteorology: — 



The Cyclonic Theory; Climatological Atlas 

 of India; Monthly Weather Revieto; 

 Notes : Professor E.. DeC. Ward 743 



Recent Important Anti-malaria Work: Dr. L. 

 0. Howard 744 



The Convocation Week Meetings of Scientific 

 Societies 746 



Scientific Notes and News 747 



University and Educational News 752 



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

 review should be seut to the Editor of SciENCb:, Garrison-ou- 

 Iludson, N. Y. 



THE BUDAPEST CONFERENCE OF THE 



INTERNATIONAL GEODETIC 



ASSOCIATION. 



This account of the recent meeting of 

 the International Geodetic Association is 

 necessarily unbalanced and incomplete. It 

 must be brief. The formal minutes of the 

 meeting were not available for use while 

 preparing the report. It is not easy for 

 one to appreciate fully all that occurs in 

 a meeting in which the proceedings are 

 carried on in three languages. Neverthe- 

 less, it is believed that a prompt report, 

 calling attention to some of the more im- 

 portant features of the meeting will be of 

 value, even if the report has defects. 



The Fifteenth General Conference of 

 the International Geodetic Association was 

 held at Budapest, September 20-28, 1906. 

 Such conferences of the association are, in 

 general, held at intervals of three years. 



There were present 61 delegates, repre- 

 senting 18 nations. Nearly every part of 

 Europe was represented, as well as Japan, 

 Mexico, the United States and Argentina. 

 Argentina was represented in the associa- 

 tion for the first time at this meeting. 



The United States was represented by 

 the undersigned. 



The activities of the conference may con- 

 veniently be grouped in four classes and 

 such grouping is favorable to a clear un- 

 derstanding of the purpose and effect of 

 the conference. The activities were: (1) 

 The presentation by the representatives of 

 the different countries of reports of the 

 progress in geodetic operations during the 



