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. 



Friday, January 15, 1904. 



CONTENTS: 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 The Proceedings of the St. Louis Meeting: 



President Chabi.es S. Howe 81 



The Elements: Verified and Unverified: 

 Pkofessor Chaeles Baskekville 88 



Meetings of Affiliated Scientific Societies at 

 Philadelphia 109 



The American Mathematical Society: Pro- 

 fessor F. N. Cole 101 



Scientific Books : — 



Noyes oil the General Principles of Physical 

 Science: Professor E. H. Loomis 102 



Scientific Journals and Articles 103 



Societies and Academies : — 



The Society for Experimental Biology and 

 Medicine: Dr. William J. Gees. The 

 New York Academy of Sciences, Section of 

 Anthropology and Psychology: Professor 

 James E. Lough. Section of Geology and 

 Mineralogy: Dr. Edmund Otis Hovey. 

 Michigan Ornithological Club : Alexander 

 W. Blain, Jr. 104 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Word Ba/rometer : Professor John C. 

 Shedd 108 



Special Articles: — 



Color Inheritance in Mice: Professor C. 



B. Davenport 110 



Current Notes on Meteorology : — 



Meteorological Bibliography ; Cloud Obser- 

 vations in India; Air Pressures in India; 

 Note: Professor E. DeC. Ward 115 



The Association of Official Agricultural Chem- 

 ists 116 



Scientific Notes and News 116 



University and Educational News 120 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc.. intended 

 for review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garri- 

 soD-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOB THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 

 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ST. LOUIS MEETING. 



The fifty-third annual meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science was held in St. Louis, December 

 26, 1903, to January 1, 1904. This was the 

 second time the association had met in St. 

 Louis, the first being the twenty-seventh 

 meeting in 1878. The association has met 

 west of the Mississippi but six times. 



The . number of members in attendance 

 was 385, while the number in the affiliated 

 societies was 81, making a total attendance 

 of 466. This places the meeting fifth in 

 point of numbers of those held during the 

 last ten years. As the total membership 

 has rapidly increased in this time, this 

 would seem to be a small meeting, but there 

 are various reasons to account for it. The 

 first and strongest of them is that the ex- 

 position will be held in St. Louis next sum- 

 mer and a large number of the members 

 expect to visit the city at that time. Hence 

 they did not feel like going to St. Louis in 

 the winter, notwithstanding their strong 

 desire to attend the meeting of the asso- 

 ciation. 



Although the meeting was small in point 

 of numbers, it was large in point of papers 

 and earnest work in the section room. 

 Many of the sections were very largely at- 

 tended and had so many papers that they 

 could not complete them during the regular 

 time assigned. Several evening meetings 

 were held, and at least two of the sections 

 held meetings after the final adjournment 

 of the association. This shows that the 



