June 22, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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with alkali and methyl iodide, the N-methyl 

 derivative resulted in every case. With ethyl 

 iodide, both 0- and N-derivatives were ob- 

 tained, while with the higher iodides the 0- 

 compound was the chief product. The pure 

 N-alkyl compounds were prepared from the 

 acyl anthranils, and the pure O-compounda 

 from the corresponding chlorine derivatives 

 and sodium alcholates. A large number of 

 isomers were prepared and examined, both of 

 nitrated and unnitrated quinazolines. 



F. H. POUGH, 



Secretary. 



THE TOEREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 



The meeting of May 8, 1906, was held at 

 the American Museum of Natural History 

 at 8 P.M., with President Eusby in the chair. 



The scientific program was an illustrated 

 lecture by Dr. Grace E. Cooley on ' Forestry.' 



The lecture considered the relation of for- 

 ests and forest products to man, and the 

 consequent importance of an intelligent corn- 

 prehension of the principles and economic 

 bearings of forestry. The nature of various 

 important species of trees was treated of from 

 the standpoint of silviculture, treating the tree 

 as an individual plant; forestry, considering 

 tree groups, or forests; physiography, discus- 

 sing the relation of trees to the landscape and 

 physiographic processes, and also from the 

 point of view of economics and esthetics. The 

 historical development of the U. S. Bureau of 

 Forestry was briefly traced from the early be- 

 ginning when a few interested persons met 

 regularly at the home of Mr. Gifford Pinchot 

 for discussion and instruction until the pres- 

 ent organization of the national forest service. 

 Forestry in other countries was also alluded 

 to, and its long recognition and advanced 

 stage of perfection abroad, standing in con- 

 trast to its rather tardy development in the 

 United States. 



C. Stuart Gager, 



Secretary. 



THE CALIFORNIA BRANCH OF THE AMERICAN 

 FOLK-LORE SOCIETY. 



The eighth meeting of the California 

 Branch of the American Folk-Lore Society 



was held at Cloyne Court, Berkeley, Tuesday, 

 April 17, 1906, at 8 p.m. Mr. Charles Keeler 

 presided. The minutes of the last meeting 

 were read and approved. Dr. J. W. Hudson, 

 having been approved by the council, was 

 elected to membership in the society. On 

 motion, Charles Keeler, A. H. Allen and P. 

 E. Goddard, previously appointed by the 

 Berkeley Folk-Lore Club as a committee to 

 report on the feasibility of making a special 

 study of the folk-lore of Berkeley and vicin- 

 ity, were elected to represent the California 

 Branch and to secure the cooperation of the 

 two societies in the undertaking. A report 

 reviewing the work of the society during the 

 first year of its activity, which closed with 

 this meeting, was read by the secretary. Dr. 

 H. du E. Phelan, captain U. S. Volunteers, 

 gave the address of the evening on ' The 

 Peoples of the Philippine Islands,' based on 

 a sojourn of several years in different parts 

 of the archipelago and illustrated with numer- 

 ous ethnological specimens. At its conclusion 

 Dr. Phelan's talk was discussed by the mem- 

 bers. The acting president thereupon an- 

 nounced the conclusion of the first year of the 

 society's existence and the meeting was ad- 

 journed. Forty-five persons attended the 

 meeting. 



A. L. Kroebee, 



Secretary. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



FACTS AND THEORIES IN EVOLUTION. 



With reference to the writings of Weis- 

 mann, I wrote in 1896,' that he has constantly 

 mixed up the origin of species and variations, 

 and the origin of adaptive characters. This 

 holds good also at the present time, and may 

 be said of other writers. The confusion is 

 partly due to Darwin's phrase: origin of spe- 

 cies, which was intended to include the whole 

 process of evolution; but we must bear in 

 mind that the latter is composed of several 

 distinct processes. 



In a recent article in Science/ Dr. F. Way- 

 land Vaughan gives a review of de Vries's 



'Pr. Am. Pkilos. Soe., 35, 1896, p. 191. 



' Science, May 4, 1906, p. 681. 



