SCIENCE 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING TKf 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Editorial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickering, 

 Astronomy ; T. C- Mbndenhall, Physics ; R. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Ira Eemsbn, Chemistry ; 

 Charles D. Walcott, Geology ; W. M. Davis, Physiography ; Henry F. Osborn, Paleon- 

 tology ; W. K. Brooks, C. Hart Merriam, Zoology ; S. H. Scudder, Entomology ; C. E. 

 Bessey, N. L. Brition, Botany ; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology ; H. P. Bow- 

 ditch, Physiology ; J. S. Billings, Hygiene ; William H. Welch, Pathol- 

 ogy ; J. McKebn Cattbll, Psychology ; J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, ]\L4rch 14, 1902. 



CONTENTS: 



The Society for Plant Morphology and Phys- 

 iology : Professor W. P. Ganong 401 



Third Annual Meeting of the Cordilleran Sec- 

 tion of the Geological Society of America: 

 Professor Andrew C. Lawson 410 



A New Barometry for the United States, 

 Canada and the West Indies: Professor 

 Frank H. Bigelow 417 



Scientific Books: — 



Memorial Lectures delivered iefore the 

 Chemical Society of London: Dr. Henry 

 Carrington Bolton. Vertcorn's Allgemeine 

 Physiologic: Professor Frederic S. Lee. 421 



Scientifio Journals and Articles 425 



Societies and Academies : — 



The American Physical Society : Professor 

 Ernest Merkitt. The American Mathe- 

 matical Society: Professor F. N. Cole. 

 The Nebraska Academy of Science: Robert 

 H. Wolcott. The Philosophical Society of 

 Washington : Charles K. Wead 425 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Agriculture and the Experiment Stations: 

 Professor H. F. Roberts. Injuries to the 

 Eye Caused by Intense Light: Dr. J. Paul 

 Goode. a Geographical Society of North 

 America: J. Stanford Brown. The Phys- 

 iological Effects of the Electrical Charge of 

 Ions: Dr. Jacques Loeb 430 



N otes. on Inorganic Chemistry : J. L. H 434 



Current Notes on Meteorology: — 



Mauritius Meteorological Society; British 

 Rainfall; Climatic Conditions of Panama 

 and Nicaragua; Day Darkness in London: 

 Professor R. DeC. Ward 435 



Scientific Notes and News 437 



University and Educational News 439 



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

 for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Pro- 

 essor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrisnn-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE SOCIETY FOR PLANT MORPHOLOGY 

 AND PHYSIOLOGY. 



The fifth regular annual meeting of this 

 Society was held at Columbia University, 

 New York City, December 31, 1901, and 

 January 1, 1902, under the presidency of 

 Dr. Erwin F. Smith. There was a good 

 attendance of members, and the meeting 

 was in all ways successful. Friendly greet- 

 ings were exchanged by telegraph with the 

 botanists in session at Chicago. Some busi- 

 ness of general interest was transacted, of 

 which a full account will be found below. 

 This included action upon the report on 

 the Botanisches Centralblatt and the Asso- 

 ciation Internationale des Botanistes, the 

 nomination of American members of the 

 executive committee of the Association In- 

 ternationale, and the report on the College 

 Entrance Option in Botany. The following 

 neAV members were elected : Miss Margaret 

 Ferguson, Wellesley; Messrs. Ernst A. 

 Bessey, Washington; T. E. Hazen, St. 

 Johnsbury, Vt. ; A. S. Hitchcock, Wash- 

 ington; C. F. Hottes, Urbana, 111.; E. C. 

 Jeffrey, Toronto; and R. H. True, Wash- 

 ington. The following officers were elected 

 for the ensuing year: President, Professor 

 Volney M. Spalding, University of Michi- 

 gan; Vice-President, Professor Byron D. 

 Halsted, Rutgers College ; Secretary-Treas- 

 urer, Professor W. F. Ganong, Smith Col- 

 lege. The Society will meet next year with 

 the other societies at Washington. 



