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, February 12, 1904. 



CONTENTS: 



The Summer's Work at the Woods Hole Labo- 

 ratory of the Bureau of Fisheries: De. 

 Francis B. Sumnbb 241 



Society of the Vei-tebrate Paleontologists of 

 America : Dr. 0. P. Hay 253 



The Memhership of the American Association 257 



Scientific Boohs: — 



Kohl iiber die Organization und Physiologie 

 der Cyanophyceenzelle : Dk. Ernest A. 

 Bessey. Miron on the Geology of Eco- 

 nomic Non-metallic Minerals: G. P. K. . . . 260 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Onortdaga Academy of Science: Pro- 

 fessor T. C. Hopkins. The Olemson Col- 

 lege Science Club : F. S. Shiver 262 



Discussion and Correspondence:— 



Convocation Week: Judge Simeon E. Bald- 

 win, Professor Theodore W. Richards, 

 Professor Wilder D. Bancroft, Pro- 

 fessor Charles W. Hargitt, Professor 

 C. H. Hitchcock 263 



Special Articles: — ■ 



The Tourmaline Localities of Southern Cali- 

 fornia: Dr. Waldbmar T. Schalleb. A 

 Note on Rhizoctonia: G. G. Hedqcock 266 



•Quotations : — 



The Carnegie Institution; Experiments in 

 Flying 268 



Notes on Inorganic Chemistry : J. L. H 270 



Recent Zoopaleontology : — 



The Sauropoda: H. F. C 271 



The Milwaukee Museum : L 272 



The Smithsonian Institution 273 



Scientific Notes and News 275 



University and Educational Netos 280 



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

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

 8on-on-HudBon, N. Y 



THE SUMMER'S WORK AT THE WOODS 



HOLE LABORATORY OF THE BUREAU 



OF FISHERIES {FORMER U. S. FISH 



C0M31ISSI0N).'' 



The laboratory was thrown open on the 

 sixteenth of June last for the nineteenth 

 summer since the establishment of its pres- 

 ent quarters, and scientific work was in 

 progress until the end of September, after 

 which time there remained but a single 

 investigator. The work accomplished dur- 

 ing the season is summarized below, to- 

 gether with mention of certain important 

 lines of work which were planned and com- 

 menced. This statement has been pre- 

 faced by a brief account of the present 

 equipment for scientific work at the sta- 

 tion, although this latter of course varies 

 but little from year to year. 



I. EQUIPMENT. 



Rooms.— In addition to the large labo- 

 ratory room with nine tables, there were 

 fourteen private rooms at the disposal of 

 investigators, all of which are provided 

 with gas and electricity and otherwise 

 equipped for research. To this list must 

 be added the library, supply-room and 

 aquarium, as well as the main hatching- 

 room, which, as usual, -was available for 

 laboratory purposes from the end 'of the 

 lobster-hatching season, early in July. 

 Through the courtesy of Superintendent 

 Locke, certain other portions of the fish- 

 cultural plant were also at the service of 

 investigators. Early in the summer im- 



- Eepoi-t to the Commissioner of Fisheries by 

 the director of the laboratory. 



