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[N. S. Vol. XVI. No. 397. 



The editorial staff of the Transactions has 

 been increased by the appointment as assistant 

 editors of Professor James Harkness, Professor 

 E. B. Van Vleck, Professor H. S. Wliite, Dr. 

 C. L. Bouton, Professor L. E. Dickson, Dr. J. 

 I. Hutchinson, and Professor M. B. Porter. 



The July number (Vol. 8, No. 10) of the 

 Bulletin of the American Mathematical So- 

 ciety contains: ' The First Meeting of the Sail 

 Erancisco Section of the American Mathemat- 

 ical Society,' by E. J. Wilczynski ; ' Mathe- 

 matical Problems, Lecture by D. Hilbert before 

 the Paris Congress of Mathematicians,, 1900,' 

 translated by M. W. Newson ; ' Eeply to Mr. J. 

 L. Coolidge's Eeview of Hill's Eiiclid,' by M. 

 J. M. Hill; 'Notes'; 'New Publicatioiis ' ; 

 ' Eleventh Annual List of Papers read before 

 the Society and Subsequently Published'; and 

 a nineteen-page Index of the volume. 



The Botanical Gazette for August contains 

 the following articles : J. C. Arthur describes 

 the IJredinae occurring upon Phragmites, Spar- 

 tina and Arundinaria in America, giving full 

 synonymy and specimens examined, descri- 

 bing two new species, and presenting a key; 

 Aven Nelson continues his ' Contributions 

 from the Rocky Mountain Herbarium,' de- 

 scribing numerous new species ; George E. At- 

 kinson describes and illustrates three new gen- 

 era of the higher fungi, the names proposed be- 

 ing Eomycenella, Eoterfezia and Dictybole. 

 Boterfezia is taken as representing a new fam- 

 ily, which is named Eoterfeziacese. Edward W. 

 Berry presents a paper ' On the Phylogeny of 

 Liriodendron' tracing the development of the 

 type through fossil forms to the present L. 

 Tulipifera. Mel. T. Cook reports polyembry- 

 ony in Ginkgo; Hermann von Schrenk de- 

 scribes a root rot of apple trees, and E. M. 

 "Wilcox shows that Stipa Hassei is not a good 

 species. 



The Popular Science Monthly for August 

 has for its article Charles S. Minot's ad- 

 dress before the American Association on ' The 

 Problem of Consciousness in its Biological 

 Aspects.' Consciousness is considered as the 

 most important factor in the evolution of ani- 

 mals, without which the author thinks evolu- 

 tion could not have taken place as it has done. 

 The following hypothesis is advanced near the 



close of the paper: Consciousness has the 

 power to change the form of energy, and ia 

 neither a form of energy nor a state of proto- 

 plasm. William H. Burr concludes his paper 

 on ' The Panama Route for a Ship Canal,' 

 this seeming to be preferable to the Nicara- 

 gua route in the more important particulars. 

 Edward Atkinson considers ' Social Bacteria 

 and Economic Microbes, Wholesome and Nox- 

 ious,' this being a review of the money ex- 

 pended or received for the leading staple pro- 

 ducts of our country. Edward L. Thorndike 

 discusses ' Marriage among Eminent Men,' 

 concluding that they marry at about the same 

 age and in the same proportion as other men, 

 and David Starr Jordan treats of the problem 

 of ' University Building.' Two of the most 

 important desiderata are shown to be suffi- 

 ciently long course of training and the conduct- 

 ing of original Research in the best sense of the 

 word. Minnie Marie Enteman in. a paper ' On 

 the Behavior of the Social Wasps ' presents 

 a good study of the psychology of these insects. 

 ' Field Notes of a Geologist in Martinique and 

 St. Vincent,' by Thomas A. Jaggar, gives one 

 of the best accounts of the recent eruptions, 

 and what actually did take place, that has been 

 published. The final article, by Frederick 

 Adams Woods, on ' Mental and Moral Hered- 

 ity in Royalty,' is an inquiry into the problem 

 which is the more important, environment or 

 heredity, or is there still another factor to be 

 taken into consideration? 



The American Naturalist for August, opens 

 with an article by Freeland Llowe, Jr., on ' A 

 Case of Abnormality in Cats' Paws,' being ap- 

 parently the intercalation of an extra digit. It 

 is refreshing to see that it is not considered as 

 a case of reversion. Helen Dean King de- 

 scribes in some detail ' The Gastrulation of 

 the Egg of Bufo Leniiginosus,' and Charles 

 W. Hargitt presents some ' Notes on the 

 Ccelenterate Fauna of Woods Hole,' which in- 

 cludes descriptions of several new species. 

 William A. Hilton has a very careful study of 

 ' The Body Sense Hairs of Lepidopterous Lar- 

 vae,' concluding among other things that in 

 most species all body hairs are sensory and 

 supplied by the bipolar cells. Hannah Teresa 

 Rowley notes the ' Histological Changes in 



