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OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



FEffiAY, November 1, 1907 



CO'NTE'UTS 



The Vagaries of Beryllium : Pkofessok 

 Charles L. Pabsons 569 



The Application of Scientifio Method to Edu- 

 cational Prohlems: SiE Philip Magnus .. 574 



Scientific Boolcs: — 



Mann's Report on the Diatoms of the Pacifio 

 Ocean: Dr. George T. Moore. Kraepelin's 

 Leitfaden fiir den hiologischen Unterricht; 

 Hough and Sedgwick's Elements of Physi- 

 ology: Professor Chas. W. Hargitt. 

 Hawk's Practical Physiological Chemistry : 

 Dr. John H. Long. Jones's Elements of 

 Physical Chemistry: Professor H. W. 

 FooTE. Wundt's Outlines of Psychology: 

 Professor Raymond Dodge 586 



Societies and Academies: — 



The New York Section of the American 

 Chemical Society: Dr. C. M. Joyce. The 

 American Philosophical Society 589 



Special Articles: — 



Heredity of Eye-color in Man: Dr. Gert- 

 rude C. Davenport and Dr. Chas. B. 

 Davenport. The Nomenclature of Dextral, 

 Sinistral and Attentional Organs and Func- 

 tions: Dr. George M. Gould. Color Varie- 

 ties of LocustidoB: Dr. Frederick Knab. 

 Cone in Gone: G. C. Broadhead 589 



Quotations : — ■ 



Externalism in American Universities .... 597 



Current Notes on Meteorology and Climatol- 

 ogy:— 

 British Rainfall; Light and Bacteria; Phe- 

 nomenal Rainfall in Suva, Fiji; Rainfall in 

 the Lake Region; Variations in Level of 

 Lake Chad; Roumanian Meteorological 

 Work; Bright Sunshine in the British 

 Isles; Symons's Meteorological Magazine: 

 Professor R. DeC. Ward 598 



The New Philippine Medical School, estab- 

 lished by the Government of the Philippine 

 Islands: Dr. Paul C. Freer 600 



Some Astronomical Consequences of the Pres- 

 sure of Light: Professor J. H. Poyntinq 602 



Scientific Appointments at the University of 

 Wisconsin 603 



Scientific Notes and News 



University and Educational News 



604 

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 review sliould be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Iludson. K. Y. 



THE VAGARIES OF BERYLLIUM'- 

 As it has become a custom in the Ameri- 

 can Chemical Society that the chairmen of 

 the various sections, into which the sessions 

 of the general meetings are divided, shall 

 present an address upon some branch of 

 their work in which they are especially in- 

 terested, I have decided to speak this morn- 

 ing upon beryllium and especially upon 

 those peculiarities of the element which 

 stand out prominently as characteristic of 

 itself. I realize fully the narrowness of 

 the subject and fear that what I have to 

 say will scarcely be of interest to all of 

 you, but must plead as my excuse that, 

 realizing fully the limitations of my own 

 knowledge, I can select no other subject 

 with which I am more familiar. 



Even at its christening beryllium 

 started on a vagarious career and its early 

 sponsors as well as those who followed have 

 recognized it under different names and 

 have ascribed to it and to its compounds 

 properties as widely variant as the condi- 

 tions under which they worked. Referred 

 to first by Vauquelin, its discoverer, as 

 "la terre du Beril" the German translators 

 naturally adopted Berylerde as the name of 

 its oxide and although Vauquelin later ac- 

 cepted, under virtual protest, the sugges- 

 tion made that glucine be used on account 

 of the sweetish taste of the salts of the 

 element, the name never secured adoption 



' Address of the chairman of the Section on 

 Inorganic Chemistry, Toronto Meeting, American 

 Chemical Society. 



