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. 



.Fkidat, March 2, 1906. 



CONTENTS. 

 The New Orleans Meeting of Section of the 

 American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science and of the American 

 Chemical Society: Dr. C. E. Waters 321 



Scientifio Books: — 



Gonklin on the Organization and Cell- 

 lineage of the Asoidian Egg: Db. C M. 

 Child. Hann's Lehrbuch der Meteorologie: 

 R. Dec. W 340 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Torrey Botanical Club: C. Stuart 

 Gagee. The American Chemical Society, 

 New York Section: Dr. F. H. Pough. The 

 Society of Geohydrologists : M. L. Fuller 345 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Kelep Excused: Dr. William Morton 

 Wheeler i 348 



■Special Articles: — 



Rambur and the Nature of Species: Presi- 

 dent David Starr Jordan. Glacial Notes 

 from the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks: 

 W. H. Schebzer 350 



Botanical Notes: — 



The Missouri Botanical Garden; Labora- 

 tory Outlines for General Botany; More 

 Philippine Plants; The North American 

 Flora: Professor Charles E. Besset.... 354 



Work at the Lake Laboratory for the Season 

 of 1905: Professor Herbert Osborn 356 



T'he British Association 356 



Scientific Notes and News 357 



and Educational News 359 



MSS. inteudedfOT pnblicatiou aud books, etc., inteDded 

 for review should be sent to the Editor of Scibnce, Qarrl' 

 don-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE NEW ORLEANS MEETING OF SECTION 

 C OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR 

 THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 

 AND OF TEE AMERICAN CHEM- 

 ICAL SOCIETY.'- 



The meetings were held in the chemical 

 laboratory of Tulane University. In the 

 absence of C. F. Mabery, the vice-president, 

 Section C was presided over by L. P. Kin- 

 nicutt. 



At the first meeting the minutes of the 

 preceding meeting at Philadelphia were 

 read by the secretary, Charles L. Parsons. 

 J. H. Long was elected a member of the 

 council of the association, Charles H. Herty 

 as a member of the general committee, W. 

 J. Gies as a member of the sectional com- 

 mittee and C. E. Waters as press secretary. 



J. H. Long read the report of the com- 

 mittee on tax-free alcohol for manufactur- 

 ing purposes. This has already appeared 

 elsewhere in Science. 



In the afternoon the retiring chairman 

 of Section C, L. P. Kinnicutt, delivered an 

 address on ' The Sanitary Value of a Water 

 Analysis.' This has already been pub- 

 lished in Science, January 12, 1906, p. 56. 



The American Chemical Society was 

 then called to order by President F. P. 

 Venable. Harvey W. Wiley delivered an 

 address on 'Some Important Problems in 

 Agricultural Chemistry. ' 



The realm of agricultural chemistry was 

 formerly supposed to be confined to exam- 

 inations of soils and fertilizers. In late 

 years, however, investigations of agricul- 

 tural chemistry have extended far beyond 

 the original confines. The term agricul- 



' December 29 to January 2. 



