Maech 28, 1902.] 



SCIENCE. 



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8:00 o'clock at the Free Museum of Science 



and Art. 

 ' The Eelatiou of the American University to 

 Science ' : President Henry S. Phitchett, of Bos- 

 ton. 



' The Advancement of Knowledge by the Aid of 

 the Carnegie Institution ' : President Daniel C. 

 Oilman, of Baltimore. 



Friday, April li, 10:00 o'clock. 



' Historical Investigation of the Supposed 

 Changes in the Color of Sirius since the Epoch of 

 the Greeks and Romans ' : T. J. J. See, Ph.D., of 

 Washington. 



'Recent Progress in the Lunar Theory': Pro- 

 fessor Ernest W. Brown, F.R.S., of Haver- 

 ford, Pa. 



' On a New Method of Transiting Stars ' : Pro- 

 fessor Monroe B. Snyder, of Philadelphia. 



' On the Evolution of Martian Topography ' : 

 Mr. Peecb'Al 'Lowtsli., of Flagstaff, Arizona. 



' Results of Observation with the Zenith Tele- 

 scope at the Sayre Observatory ' : Professor 

 Charles L. Doolittle, of Philadelphia. 



' On the Spectra of Gases at High Tempera- 

 ture ' : Professor John Trowbridge, of Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



' On Some Equations pertaining to the Propaga- 

 tion of Heat in an Infinite Medium ' : Professor 

 A. Stanley Mackenzie, of Bryn Mawr, Pa. 



Afternoon Session, 2 :00 o'clock. 



' The Direction of Evolution in Color-Marks in 

 Rock Pigeons ' : Professor Charles 0. Whitman, 

 of Chicago. 



' On Biological Heredity and Organic Evolu- 

 tion ' : Professor Giuseppe Sergi,- of Rome, Italy. 



' Is Scientific Naturalism Fatalism ?' A one- 

 minute paper: Professor William Keith Brooks, 

 of Baltimore. 



' On Diclwtoma, a new genus of Hydroid Jelly- 

 Fish ' : Professor William Keith Brooks, of 

 Baltimore. 



' On the Continuity of Protoplasm ' : Professor 

 Henry Kraemer, of Philadelphia. 



' Further E.xperiments on the Physiological 

 Action of Ions': Dr. Jacques Loeb, of Chicago. 



' The Embryology of a Brachiopod ' : Professor 

 Edwin Grant Conklin, of Philadelphia. 



' Relationship of the Gordiacea ' : Professor 

 Thomas H. Montgomery, Jr., of Philadelphia. 



' Tlie Spermatogenesis of Oniscus Asellus Linn., 

 with especial reference to the history of the Chro- 

 matin': M. Louise Nichols, Ph.D., of Philadel- 

 phia. 



Saturday, April 5, 10:00 o'clock. 



' The International Catalogue of Scientific ■ 

 Literature ' : Cyrus Abler, Ph.D., of Washington. 



'A Classification of Economics ' : Professor 

 Lindley Miller Keasbey, of Bryn Mawr, Pa. 



' Experiments on Cytolysis ' : Professor Simon 

 Flexner, of Philadelphia. 



' On Osteitis Deformans ' : Professor James C. 

 Wilson, of Philadelphia. 



' The Influence of Acute Alcoholic Intoxication 

 upon Certain Factors involved in the Phenomena 

 of Hasmotolysis and Bacteriolysis ' : Professor A. 



C. Abbott, of Philadelphia. 



' Blindness from Congenital Malformation of the 

 Skull ' : Charles A. Oliver, M.D., of Philadel- 

 phia. 



' Race Elements in American Civilization ' 

 (illustrated by German Examples) : Professor M. 



D. Learned, of Philadelphia. 



THE AMERICAN ELECTRO-OHEMICAL SOCIETY. 



Arrangements for the first general meeting 

 of the American Electro-chemical Society, to 

 be held at Philadelphia on April 3, 4 and 5, 

 are as follows : 



Thursday afternoon, April 3, 2 p.m. Visits 

 to places of interest. 



Thursday evening, April 3, 8 p.m., at the 

 Manufacturer's Club, inaugural meeting. 

 Tliis meeting will be devoted to the organiza- 

 tion of the Society, adoption of a constitu- 

 tion and by-laws, .election of officers, deter- 

 mining times and places of future meetings, 

 discussing the question of publishing the 

 transactions, etc. 



Friday morning, April 4, 9 a.m., at the lec- 

 ture hall of the John Harrison Laboratory of 

 Chemistry of the University of Pennsylvania. 

 Reading- and discussion of the following 

 papers : 



'A University Course in Electro-chemistry ' : 

 Professor Joseph W. Richards, Ph.D., Lehigh 

 University, Bethlehem, Pa. 



' Electrodes ' : Clarence L. Collins, 2d, 

 Niagara Falls, N. Y. 



' Note on the Gladstone Tribe Couple ' : Pro- 

 fessor Wilder D. Bancroft, Ph.D., Cornell Uni- 

 versity, Ithaca, N. Y. 



'The Nascent State': C. J. Reed, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. 



' The Electrolytic Reduction of Lead ' : Pedro 

 G. Salom, Ph.D., Philadelphia, Pa. 



