SCIENCE 



A W^EEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 



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. Mendenhall, Physics ; R. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Iea Eebiskn, 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. Britton, Botany ; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology ; H. P. Bow- 

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

 ogy ; J. McKben Cattell, Psychology ; J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, April 25, 1902., 



GOti TENTS: 



Inaugural Address of President Butler, of 

 Columbia University 641 



Types and Synonyms: 0. F. Cook 646 



Meeting of the Gounoil of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science. . . . 657 



Scientific Books : — 



The Dutch Expedition to the Malay Archi- 

 pelago: Professor Bashfokd Dean. 

 Nemee's Die Reizleitung hei den Pflanzen: 

 Professor C. R. Barnes. Roscoe-Sehor- 

 lemmer's Chemie: R. H. "Chittenden. 

 Von Zittel's History of Geology and Pale- 

 ontology : Professor John J. Stevenson. . 658 



Scientific Journals and Articles ■. . . 662 



Societies and Academies : — 



The National Academy of Sciences. The 

 Geological Society of Washington: Alfred 

 H. Brooks. The Ghemical Society of Wash- 

 ington : L. S. MuNSON. Boston Society of 

 Natural History: Glover M. Axlen. The 

 Academy of Sciences of St. Louis: Pro- 

 fessor William Trelease 663 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science {Section D, Mechanical Sci- 

 ence and Engineering) : Professor J. J. 

 Flather. (Section A, Mathematics and 

 Astronomy) : Professor Edvcin S. Craw- 

 let. Central Control of the Experimental 

 Stations: Professor E. W. Hilgard. The 

 Sutmarine Valleys of the California Coast: 

 W. S. Tangier Smith 668 



Shorter Articles: — 



llotv Many One-dollar Bills Will Equal in 

 Weight a Five-dollar Gold Piece? J. Frank- 

 lin Messenger 672 



Recent Progress in Petrology : — 



Chemical Classification of Eruptive Rocks ; 

 Gneisses of the Schwarewald ; Sequence of 

 Volcanic Rocks: Dr. F. L. Ransome 673 



The Alaska Fuel Supply 674 



Cruise of the Albatross 675 



Scientific Notes and Neivs 675 



University and Educational News 679 



INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT 

 BUTLER, OF COLUMBIA UNI- 

 VERSITY. 



For these kindly and generous greetings 

 I am profoundly grateful. To make ade- 

 quate response to them is beyond my power. 

 The words that have been spoken humble 

 as well as inspire. They express a confi- 

 dence and hopefulness which it will tax 

 human capacity to the utmost to justify, 

 while they picture a possible future for 

 this University which fires the imagination 

 and stirs the soul. We may truthfully say 

 of Columbia, as Daniel Webster said of 

 Massachusetts, that her past, at least, is 

 secure; and we look into the future with 

 high hope and happy augury. 



To-day it would be pleasant to dwell 

 upon the labors and the service of the 

 splendid body of men and women, the Uni- 

 versity's teaching scholars, in whose keep- 

 ing the honor and the glory of Columbia 

 rest. Their learning, their devotion, and 

 their skill call gratitude to the heart and 

 words of praise to the lips. It would be 

 pleasant, too, to think aloud of the pro- 

 cession of men which has gone out from 

 Columbia's doors for well-nigh a century 

 and a half to serve God and the State ; and 

 of those younger ones who are even now 

 lighting the lamps of their lives at the 

 altar-fires of eternal youth. Equally pleas- 

 ant would it be to pause to tell those who 



