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 22, 1904. ,<.w)j«aj 



CONTENTS: (. ■"v-; 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Geography in the United States, I.: Peo- 

 FESSOB W. M. Davis 121 



Some Unsolved Problems of Oryanic Adapta- 

 tion: Peofessoe Chaeles VV. Hakgitt.... 132 



Scientific Books: — 



The Honeysuckles: De. N. L. Beitton. 

 Human Anatomy in the International Cata- 

 logue of Scientific Literature: M 145 



Scientific Journals and Articles 147 



Societies and Academies: — 



The San Francisco Section of the American 

 Mathematical Society: Peofessor G. A. 

 MlLl.EE. The Anthropological Society of 

 Washington: De. Walter Hough. The 

 Science Club of the University of Wiscon- 

 sin : Victor Lenher 148 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Lunar Theory: Professor Asaph 

 Hall. The Scaurs on the River Rouge: 

 De. Maek S. W. Jeffeeson 150 



Shorter Articles: — 



Wonder Horses and Mendelism: Peofessoe 

 C. B. Davenpoet. The Inherita/nce of Song 

 in Passerine Birds: William E. D. Scott. 151 



The U. S. Naval Observatory 154 



Scientific Notes and News 156 



University and Educational News 160 



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

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

 son-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



GEOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES.* I. 

 |. For twenty years past our section has 

 acknowledged in its name an equal rank 

 for geology and geography, but not one of 

 the vice-presidential addresses during that 

 period, or, indeed, since the foundation of 

 the association over fifty years ago, has 

 been concerned with the subject second 

 named. Unless we cross off geography 

 from the list of our responsibilities, it 

 should certainly receive at least occasional 

 attention; let me, therefore, depart from 

 all precedents, and, even though geologists 

 may form the majority in this gathering, 

 consider the standing of geography among 

 the sciences of the United States; how it 

 has reached the place it now occupies, and 

 what the prospects are for its further ad- 

 vance. 



One measure of the place that geography 

 occupies in this country may be made by 

 considering the share that geographical 

 problems have had in the proceedings of 

 our association; here follow, therefore, the 

 results of a brief examination of our fifty 

 volumes of records. In the early years of 

 the association there was no fixed division 

 into sections. The meetings were some- 

 times so small that papers from various 

 sciences were presented in general session. 

 At least once in the early years the work 

 of our predecessors was recorded under the 

 general heading, ' natural history, etc.' 

 As early as in 1851 there was a section of 



* Address of the vice-president and chairman of 

 Section E — Geology and Geography — of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 St. Louis meeting, December, 1903. 



