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, May 20, 1904. 



CONTENTS : 



The Resources of Montana and their Develop- 

 ment : Peofessoe Morton J. Eleod 777 



Seientific Books: — 



The Geology of the Harriman Alaska Ex- 

 pedition: Peofessor Iseael C. Russell. . . 783 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Michigan Academy of Science: Dk. 

 Raymokd Peael. The Iowa Academy of 

 Sciences: Peofessoe H. W. Noeeis. The 

 Research Club of the University of Mich- 

 igan: Peofessoe F. C. Newcombe. The 

 American Mathematical Society : Peofessoe 

 F. N. Cole. The Torrey Botanical Club : 

 Peofessoe Marshall A. Howe. Tlie 

 Geological Society of Washington: Alfeed 

 H. Beooks. The Philosophical Society of 

 Washington: Chaeles K. Wead. The 

 Association of Ohio Teachers of Mathe- 

 matics and Science. The N oriheastern Sec- 

 tion of the American Chemical Society: 

 Aethue M. Comet 787 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Elliptical Human Erythrocytes: De. 

 AtTSTiN Flint. Convocation Week: Peo- 

 fessoe W. J. Seal. Errors in Nomenolo/- 

 ture: Peofessoe Buet G. Wildee 796 



Special Articles: — 



A Reference to the Origin of Species in an 

 Early Letter signed by both Lamarck and 

 Geoffroy: Peofessoe Bashfoed Dean. The 

 Nature of the Pelee Tower: Professor 

 Angelo Heilpein 798 



Current Notes on Meteorology: — 

 A New Sunshine Recorder; Climate of 

 Chile; Mountain Sickness; Wrecks and 

 Casualties on the Great Lakes in 1903: 

 Peofessor R. DeC. Waed 801 



Professor of the Concilium Bibliographioum . 802 



Seientific Notes and News 805 



University and Educational Neivs 808 



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

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

 soT-on-HudBon, N. Y. 



THE RESOURCES OF MONTANA AND THEIR 

 DEVELOPMENT* 



In easting about for a theme for discus- 

 sion at the opening of this the second meet- 

 ing of tlae Montana Academy of Sciences, 

 Arts and Letters, it seemed appropriate to 

 follow some of the ideas suggested in my 

 preceding address, and elaborate more 

 fully the ideas advanced. This is all the 

 more necessary since the work of the acad- 

 emy is yet in a formative period, and the 

 members to a large extent have no means 

 of communication save by mail. They 

 have to a large extent not grasped the idea 

 of the necessity of individual effort to do 

 something definite in original work. This 

 is not surprising from the fact that one 

 easily loses enthusiasm and interest in the 

 absence of kindred spirits with whom to 

 talk matters over and thus keep alight the 

 spark of interest. 



The state of Montana, the state of grand 

 mountains, whose snow-clad summits pierce 

 the clouds, and whose hidden treasures are 

 of untold richness; the state of blue sky, 

 clear sunshine, pure air and crystal water ; 

 the state rich in mineral wealth, rich in 

 timber resources, and with great possibil- 

 ities for agriculture ; the state with beauti- 

 ful lakes, foaming rivers whose waters 

 teem with the finny tribe, and with broad 

 and fertile valleys rapidly filling with 

 happy and prosperous people ; the state in 

 which are raised the finest and fleetest horses 

 of the world ; the state with its five millions 



* Address delivered at the second annual meet- 

 ing of the Montana Academy of Sciences, Arts 

 and Letters, at Anaconda, Mont., December 29-31, 

 1903. 



