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 14, 1906. 



GOUTENTS. 



The "New York Meeting of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science 

 and the National Scientific Societies 753 



Scientific Books: — 



Chalfant on Early Chinese Writing: Pbo- 

 FESSOB Edwabd S. Morse. Graves's Forest 

 Mensuration: Db. B. E. Febnow. Ghristen- 

 sen's Index Filicum: Pbofessob Lucien M. 

 Undebwood 758 



Scientifio Journals and Articles 763 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Society for Experimental Medicine and 

 Biology: Da. William J. Gies. The Philo- 

 sophical Society of Washington: Chables 

 K. Wead. The Torrey Botanical Cluh: C. 

 Stuabt Gageb. The Elisha Mitchell Scien- 

 tific Society: Ds. A. S. Wheeleb. The St. 

 Louis Chemical Society : C. J. Bobgmeyeb . . 763 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The ' Elimination ' and ' First Species ' 

 Methods of Fixing the Types of Genera: 

 Db. J. A. Allen. Misrepresentations of 

 Nature in Popular Magazines : A. R. Cbook. 

 Special Anatomy and Physiology of the 

 Gasteropoda of the United States i Joseph 

 Leidt, Jb. Early Types of Man in Iowa: 

 C. W. Malay and Filipino Basketry: Pbo- 

 fessob O. T. Mason. The Rigidity of the 

 Earth: Pbofessob L. M. Hoskins. The 

 Lightning-rod Coincident with Franklin's 

 Kite Experiment : A. Laweence Rotch . . . 773 



Special Articles: — 

 A New Miocene Rhinoceros, Diceratherium 

 Arikarense: Pbofessob Ebwin Hinckley 

 Babboub. The Term ' Colluvial as applied 

 to Clay Deposits ': Otto Veatch 780 



Quotations : — 



* Botany in England ' — a Reply 782 



Current Notes on Meteorology: — 



Peruvian Meteorology; Cirrus a/nd Rain; 

 Meteorological Notes in Labrador; Africa 



and the White Man: Pbofessob E. DeC. 



Wabd 785 



Paleontological Notes : — 



Fossil ChrysochloridcB in North America: 



Db. W. D. Matthew 786 



Scientific Notes and News 788 



University and Educational News 792 



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

 review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Iludson. N. Y. 



THE NEW YORK MEETING OF THE AMERI- 

 CAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE AND THE 

 NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC 

 SOCIETIES. 



The scientific meetings to be held in 

 New York City during convocation week, 

 beginning on December 27, should be of 

 more than usual interest and importance. 

 This is the fifth of the convocation week 

 meetings, the first having been held at 

 Washington in 1902-3, followed by those 

 at St. Louis, Philadelphia and New Or- 

 leans. The large meetings at Washington 

 and at Philadelphia must be regarded as 

 important steps in the organization of sci- 

 entific men and of scientific work, and it is 

 to be hoped that the New York meeting will 

 be even more influential in unifying the 

 diverse scientific interests of the country. 



There are obvious objections to too great 

 centralization, and there are doubtless 

 many men of science who would prefer to 

 see the different societies hold their sepa- 

 rate meetings, but this has become almost 

 impossible, if only because there are such 

 close relationships between the sciences. 

 For a while there was a tendency for the 



