Pebruaey 26, 1904.] 



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In this way alone will it be possible to bring 



together and compare in a satisfactory manner 



forms from Polynesia, India, the Malay 



Archipelago, Africa, Australia and America. 



Heebebt J. Webber, 



Corresponding Secretary. 



FACULTY SCIENCE CLUB OF WELLESLEY COLLEGE. 



The meetings of the Faculty Science Club 

 for the current academic year have been of 

 sustained interest. Professor Charlotte F. 

 Roberts spoke in October on the ' Action of 

 Metallic Magnesium upon Aqueous Solu- 

 tions,' detailing experiments performed in the 

 chemical laboratory, the results of which were 

 published in the Journal of the Chemical 



The November meeting was addressed by 

 Professor Sarah F. Whiting, on ' The Latest 

 Theory of Electricity and its Historical De- 

 velopment.' This paper was amply illustrated 

 by esperiment, and finally some radium salt 

 was exhibited, also photographs taken with it, 

 and its action in discharging electricity. 



Professor Irving Fisher, of Tale, was the 

 guest of the club in December, and spoke on 

 ' Sundials, their Different Forms and Mathe- 

 matical Theory.' He especially described a 

 bronze cylindrical sundial of his own construc- 

 tion, which gives not only local apparent time 

 but that of any standard meridian and sidereal 

 time. This dial is, through President Hazard, 

 placed in the Whitin Observatory. 



At the January meeting Miss Alice Wilson 

 Wilcox spoke on ' Peciinatella magnifica/ de- 

 tailing her own studies of this form. This 

 paper was illustrated by drawings, photo- 

 id microscopes. 



Grace Langfoed, 

 Secretary. 



of research by Professor Sandsten. A week's 

 rain at the time of blossoming of apples was 

 shown absolutely to prevent distribution of 

 pollen and cause an orchard to be barren. 



The second paper, by Professor Whitson, on 

 ' The Influence of Climate on Soil,' was illus- 

 trated by striking examples of plants grown 

 in soil which had been used for ten years in 

 the university greenhouse, as compared with 

 similar plants which had been grown in the 

 same soil which had been only recently re- 

 moved from the field. The plants in the first 

 case were enormously advanced, while the 

 comparative analysis of the soils showed the 

 greenhouse soil to be much richer in soluble 

 matter and to have undergone marked nitri- 

 fication. 



The January meeting of the club was called 

 to order on the twenty-sixth at 7:30 p.m. in 

 the physical lecture room of Science Hall, 

 President Turneaure in the chair. 



The first part of the evening was devoted to 

 reports of the recent meetings of the science 

 associations. W. H. Hobbs reported on the 

 geology and mineralogy section of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of 

 Science; B. W. Snow on the physics section 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science; V. Lenher on the American 

 Chemical Society, E. B. Skinner on the Wis- 

 consin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 



The paper of the evening, ' Some Economic 

 Problems in the Location of the K. L. and J. 

 E. E. in Tennessee,' by W. D. Taylor, was 

 presented in a very interesting manner, being 

 illustrated by lantern slides of the region and 

 of the workings in the construction of the 

 road. Victor Lenher, 



Secretary. 



THE SCIENCE CLUB OF THE UNIVERSITY OF 

 "WISCONSIN. 



The December meeting of the club was held 

 on the 22d inst.. President Turneaure in the 

 chair. 



The first paper, by Professor Sandsten, on 

 ' Conditions which affect the Production and 

 Fertility of Pollen,' dealt with a number of 

 interesting questions which have been subjects 



THE NORTHEASTERN SECTION OF THE AMERICAN 

 CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 



The forty-ninth regular meeting of the sec- 

 tion was held at the rooms of the Tech. Union, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bos- 

 ton, Friday, January 22, at 8 p.m., with Presi- 

 dent W. H. Walker in the chair. Forty mem- 

 bers were present. 



Mr. Maximilian Toch, of New York, pre- 



