SCIENCE 



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



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Editorial Committkb : S. Nkwcomb, Mathematios ; R. S. Woodward, Meohanios ; E. C. Pickering, 

 Astronomy ; T. C- Mkndknhall, Physios ; R. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Ira Remskn, Chemistry ; 

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

 tology ; W. K. Bbooks, C. Hart Meekiam, Zoology ; S. H. Scuddee, Entomology ; C. E. 

 Bbssby, N. L. Brixton, Botany ; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology ; H. P. Bow- 

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

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



Friday, Mat 23, 1902. 



COl^'TE'NTS: 



The Pittsburgh Meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation 801 



The Foundation of a National Anthropologieal 

 Society : Dk. Franz Boas 804 



Excerpts from the Report of the Census Gom- 

 miitee of the American Chemical Society: 

 C. B 809 



Memiership of the American Association . . . . 814 



Scientific Books: — 



Correspondence of Liebig and Schonbein: 

 Dr. Henry Cakkincton Bolton. Fleming 

 on the Electrical Laboratory: Professor 

 DugaldC. Jackson. Beck von Mannagetta's 

 Die Vegetationsverhdltnisse der lUyrischen 



Lander: Dr. Frederic E. Clements 816 



Societies and Academies : — 



The American Mathematical Society: Pro- 

 fessor F. N. Cole. The Geological Society 



of Washington : Alfred H. Brooks 821 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Causes of the Sudden Destruction of Life in 

 theMartinique Volcanic SEruption : Profess- 

 or A. E. Vereill. The Whale-Shark (Rhino- 

 don typicus) as an American Fish: Dr. 

 Theo. Gill. A Meteoric Iron: Dr. W. H. 

 Hobbs. The Geological Society of America: 

 Professor Herman Le Roy Faibchild. 

 Social and Economic Science at the Pitts- 

 burgh Meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion: Dr. Carroll D. Weight, Frank R. 



Rutter 824 



Shorter Articles : — 



Streptococci Characteristio of Sewage and 

 Seioage-polluted Waters apparently not 

 hitherto reported in America: C.-E. A. 



WiNSLOw, Miss M. P. Hxtnnewell 827 



The Metric System of Weights and Measures. 829 



National Geographic Society Notes 836 



Expedition to Martinique 836 



Scientific Notes and Netos 837 



University and Educational News 840 



THE PITTSBVBGE MEETING OF TEE AMER- 

 ICAN ASSOCIATION. 



The American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science will hold its iifty- 

 first annual meeting at Pittsburgh, Pa., 

 from June 29 to July 3, and the several 

 scientific societies affiliated with it will hold 

 their meetings at the same place and at 

 about the same time. The Association has 

 never before held a meeting at Pittsburgh, 

 but that city is so easily reached from all 

 parts of the country and is a center for so 

 much of scientific interest that the meeting 

 may be expected to be one of the largest 

 and most' successful in the history of the 

 Association. The preliminary announce- 

 ment, now in press and about to be issued 

 to members, shows that the local arrange- 

 ments have been made with great care, and 

 that everything possible has been done to 

 insure the success of the meeting. Dr. 

 W. J. Holland, director of the Carnegie 

 Museum, is chairman of the local executive 

 committee, and Mr. George A. Wardlaw, 

 P. 0. Box 78, Station A, Pittsburgh, is 

 the local secretary. 



From the advance sheets of the an- 

 nouncement we take the following facts: 

 The council will meet at Hotel Schenley at 

 noon on Saturday, June 28, and the open- 

 ing session of the Association will be held 

 at 10 o'clock a.m., on Monday, June 30, 

 in the Music Hall of the Carnegie Institute. 



