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SCIENCE. 



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cially since another diagram of the same thing 

 (Fig. 99), occurring in a later chapter, is cor- 

 rect — and it is made more so by a ' later note 

 by author,' in which Wundt, whose attention 

 had apparently been called to the discrepancy, 

 while not recognizing the perversion of the 

 figure and text, endeavors to slur over the 

 contradiction in a straddling manner that has 

 a curiously characteristic sound. There are 

 a number of other errors in neurological de- 

 tails, though not by any means a large num- 

 ber. Wundt would of course not be the 

 author to whom one would resort for a knowl- 

 edge of nervous anatomy and physiology, with 

 which the present instalment of the transla- 

 tion is concerned. The value of this portion 

 of the work lies in the author's broad, if some- 

 what speculative, views on the general prin- 

 ciples of the structure and functions of the 

 nervous system. 



The translator has thoughtfully provided a 

 special index for this volume. 



r. s. woodworth. 

 Columbia University. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 



The contents of The Journal of Compara- 

 tive Neurology and Psychology for November 

 is as follows : 



Clarence Loeb : '' Some Cellular Changes in the 

 Primary Optic Vesicles of Necturus.' 



Raymond Pearl : ' Some Results of a Study of 

 Variation and Correlation of Brain Weight.' 



A. H. Roth : ' The Relation Between the Occur- 

 rence of White Rami Fibers and the Spinal Ac- 

 cessory Nerve.' (With an Addendum by J. Play- 

 fair McMurrich. ) 



John E. Rouse: 'Respiration and Emotion in 

 Pigeons.' 



John B. Watson : ' The effect of the Bearing of 

 Young upon the Body- Weight and the Weight of 

 the Central Nervous System of the Female White 

 Rat.' 



The Work of Carl Wernicke. 



H. S. Jennings : ' Papers on Reactions to Elec- 

 tricity in Unicellular Organisms.' 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



the convocation week meetings of scientific 



societies. 



There will meet at New Orleans: 



The American Association for the Advancement 



of Science.— The week beginning on December 28. 



Retiring president, Professor W. G. Farlow, Har- 



vard University; president-elect, Professor C. M. 

 Woodward, Washington University, St. Louis, 

 Mo.; permanent secretary, Dr. L. 0. Howard, 

 Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C; general secre- 

 tary. Professor C. A. Waldo, Purdue University, 

 Lafayette, Ind.; secretary of the council. Dr. John 

 F. Hayford, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Local Executive Committee. — Honorary presi- 

 dent. President E. B. Craighead, Tulane Univer- 

 sity; executive president, Professor George E. 

 Beyer, Tulane University; secretary, Henry M. 

 Mayo, The New Orleans Progressive League; 

 treasurer, Mr. Clarence F. Low, of the Liverpool, 

 London and Globe Insurance Company. 

 ' Section A, Mathematics and Astronomy. — ^Vice- 

 president, Dr. W. S. Eichelberger, U. S. Naval 

 Observatory, Washington, D. C; secretary. Pro- 

 fessor L. G. Weld, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 

 Iowa. 



Section B, Physics. — Vice-president, Professor 

 Henry Crew, Northwestern University, Evanston, 

 111.; secretary. Professor Dayton C. Miller, Case 

 School of Applied Science, Cleveland, Ohio. 



Section C, Chemistry. — Vice-president, Professor 

 Charles F. Mabery, Case School of Applied Sci- 

 ence, Cleveland, Ohio; secretary. Professor Charles 

 L. Parsons, New Hampshire College of Agricul- 

 ture, Durham, N. H. 



Section D, Mechanical Science and Engineering. 

 — Vice-president, Professor F. W. McNair, Hough- 

 ton, Mich.; secretary. Professor Wm. T. Magruder, 

 Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 



Section E, Geology and Geography. — ^Vice-presi- 

 dent, Professor Wm. North Rice, Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity, Middletown, Conn. ; secretary. Dr. Edmund 

 0. Hovey, American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York, N. Y. 



Section F, Zoology. — Vice-president, Professor 

 Henry B. Ward, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 

 Nebr.; secretary. Professor C. Judson Herrick, 

 Denison University, Granville, Ohio. 



Section G, Botany. — Vice-president, Dr. Erwin 

 F. Smith, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; secretary. Professor F. E. Lloyd, 

 Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, 

 N. Y. 



Section H, Anthropology. — ^Vice-president, Dr. 

 George Grant MacCurdy, Yale University, New 

 Haven, Conn.; secretary, George H. Pepper, Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History. 



Section I, Social and Economic Science. — Pro- 

 fessor Irving Fisher, Yale University, New Haven, 

 Conn.; secretary. Dr. J. F. Crowell, Bureau of 

 Statistics, Washington, D. C. 



