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, Maech 23, 1906. 



CONTENTS. 

 The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society 

 of America: Peofessob Haeold Jacobt. . . 441 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section A — Mathematics and Astronomy: 

 Peofessob Laenas Giffoed Weld 460 



Scientific Books: — 



Ostwald's Die Schule der Chemie : De. Will- 

 iam A. Notes 463 



tific Journals and Articles 465 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Biological Society of Washington: 

 M. C. Maesh. The New York Academy 

 of Sciences, Section of Geology and Min- 

 eralogy: Peofessob A. W. Geabau. The 

 Torrey Botanical Club: 0. Stuart Gageb. 465 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 A New Type of Electric Organ in An Ameri- 

 can Teleost Fish: De. Ulbic Dahlqben. 

 A New Method of Collecting Earthworms 

 for Laboratory Use: Peofessob Chaeles 

 W. Haesitt 469 



Special Articles: — 



Effect of Drying upon Legume Bacteria: 

 KLabl F. Kellebman and T. D. Beckwith. 471 



■Current Notes on Meteorology : — 



Helm Clouds in North Carolina; Daily 

 March of Temperature in the Tropics; 

 Rainfall of Mexico; Notes: Peofessob R. 

 Dec. Waed 472 



Botanical Notes: — 



Botanical Articles in Recent Periodicals; 

 Cryptogamae Formationum Coloradensium ; 

 Recent Botanical Bulletins; The Eew Pub- 

 lications; Montana Botany: Peofessob 

 Chaeles E. Besset 473 



The Magnetic Survey of the Pacific Ocean: 

 Db. L. a. Baltee 475 



University Control: Peofessob J. MoKeen 

 Cattell 475 



Scientific Notes and News. 477 



University and Educational News 480 



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

 review sbould be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrlson-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE ASTRONOMICAL AND ASTROPHYSICAL 

 SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 



The seventh annual meeting was held 

 December 28 to 30, 1905, at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York. Some sixty members 

 were in attendance and forty papers were 

 on the program. 



As usual, a number of pleasant social 

 gatherings occurred during the meeting. 

 On December 29 all lunched together in 

 the department of astronomy, and in the 

 evening were received by Mrs. Henry 

 Draper at her house on Madison Avenue; 

 many members also attended a dinner of 

 the Mathematical Society and the Physical 

 Society on the same evening. 



The election resulted as follows: 



President — E. C. Pickering. 

 First Vice-president — George E. Hale. 

 Second Vice-president — W. W. Campbell. 

 Secretary — George C. C'omstock. 

 Treasurer — C. L. Doolittle. 

 Councilors for 1906-8 — E. B. Frost and Harold 

 Jacoby. 



The council designated Harold Jacoby to 

 act as editor for 1906. 



"We give below a list of papers presented 

 at the society's sessions, together with brief 

 abstracts furnished by the authors. Some 

 of these have been slightly condensed by 

 the editor. 



