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. 



Feidat, Makch 9, 1906. 



CONTENTS. 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science; Section K — Physiology 

 and Experimental Medicine: — 



Executive and Scientific Proceedings: Pro- 

 fessor Wm. J. GiES 361 



The Experimental Method in Sanitary Sci- 

 ence and Sanitary Administration: Pro- 

 fessor William T. Sedgwick 362 



Symposium on Yellow Fever and Other 

 Insect-borne Diseases — The Protozoon Life 

 Cycle: Professor Gary N. Calkins; 

 Filariasis and Trypanosome Diseases: Peo- 

 PESSOE Henet B. Ward; The Practical Re- 

 .sults of Reed's Findings on Yellow Fever 

 Transmission: Dr. J. H. White; Difficulties 

 of Recognition and Prevention of Yellow 

 Fever: Dr. Quitman Kohnke; The Prac- 

 tical Side of Mosquito Extermination: Dr. 

 Henry Clay Weeks 367 



Scientific Books: — 



Walker's Analytical Theory of Light, 

 Gurry's Electromagnetic Theory of Light: 

 C. E. M. Catalogue of the Crosby Brown 

 Collection of Musical Instruments : Charles 

 K arson Weed 385 



ific Journals and Articles 387 



Ic Notes and News 397 



University and Educational News 400 



■Societies and Academies: — 



The New York Academy of Sciences, Section 

 of Oeology and Mineralogy : Professor A. 

 W. Grabau. The Chemical Society of 

 Washington: Dr. C. E. Waters. The Ver- 

 mont Botanical Club: Professor L. E. 

 Jones 387 



Discussion amd Correspondence: — 

 Eye Anomalies: Professor Carl Baeus. 

 Preserving Spiders' Webs: De. Frank E. 

 Ltjtz. a New Meteorite from Scott 

 County, Kansas: Dr. George P. Merrill. 

 The Walter Reed Memorial Fund: G. M. K. 390 



Special Articles: — 



Results of a Replantation of the Thigh; 

 Successful Transplantation of Both Kid- 

 neys : Alexis Caerel and C. C. Guthrie . . 393 



Notes on Entomology : Dr. Nathan Banks . . 395 



-Japanese Meteorological Service in Korea and 

 China: Dr. S. T. Tamura 396 



MSS. inteuded for pubiicatlou aud books, etc., intended 

 (01 review should be sent to the Editor of Sciencx, Garrl- 

 Bon-on-Hndflon, N. Y • 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 

 SECTION K— PHYSIOLOGY AND EXPERI- 

 MENTAL MEDICINE. 



EXECUTIVE PROCEEDINGS. 



Officers elected for 1906-1907: 



Vice-president and Chairman of the Section — 

 Simon Flexner. 



Secretary — ^William J. Gies. 



Member of Council — Alexander C. Abbott. 



Sectional Committee — W. T. Sedgwick, vice- 

 president, 1905-'06; Simon Flexner, vice-president, 

 1906-'07; William J. Gies, secretary, 1905-'07; 

 Frank Baker (one year), C. S. Minot (two years), 

 J. McK. Cattell (three years), Ludvig Hektoen 

 (four years), Graham Lusk (five years). 



Member of General Committee — James Carroll. 



SCIENTIFIC PROCEEDINGS. 

 Morning Session. 

 Vice-presidential Address— T/ie Experi- 

 mental Method in Sanitary Science and 

 Sanitary Administration: William T. 

 Sedgwick. (Presented by A. L. Metz.) 



Symposium on Yellow Fever and other 



Insect-borne Diseases. 



Introductory remarks by the acting chairman, 

 Alexander 0. Abbott. 



Gary N. Calkins : ' The Protozoon Life Cycle.' 



Henry B. Ward: 'Filariasis and Trypanosome 

 Diseases.' 



J. H. White : ' The Practical Results of Reed's 

 Findings on Yellow Fever Transmission.' 



Afternoon Session. 

 Quitman Kohnke : ' Difficulties of Recognition 

 and Prevention of Yellow Fever.' 



