SCIENCE 



A WEEKLV JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Friday, June 29, 1906. 



CONTENTS. 



The California Earthquake 961 



The Royal Society of Canada: Dk. H. M. Ami 967 



The International Meteorological Conference 

 at Innsbruck : De. A. Lawrence Rotch . . . 975 



Scientific Books: — 



The Belgian Antarctic Expedition: Db. Wm. 



H. Dall 977 



Scientific Journals and Articles 978 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Society of Experimental Biology and 

 Medicine: Db. William J. Gies. The Uni- 

 versity of Colorado Scientific Society: Pbo- 

 FESSOE Feancis Ramaley 979 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



College Entrance Examinations: Dr. J. Y. 

 Bergen. Sermons in Stomach Stones: Dr. 

 C. R. Eastman 981 



Special Articles: — 

 The Future of the Crayfish Industry: Pro- 

 fessor E. A. Andrews 983 



Two Letters of Dr. Darwin, the Early Date 

 of his Evolutional Writings: Professor 

 Bashfobd Dean , . . 986 



Statistics of Mortality 987 



The Seventh Internatioiml Zoological Congress 987 



Minute of the Faculty of Medicine of Harvard 

 University on the Retirement of Professor 

 Bowditch 988 



Scientific Notes and Neivs 988 



University and Educational News 991 



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 review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE. 



Three days after the earthquake of April 

 18, Governor Pardee appointed a com- 

 mittee of inquiry consisting of Professor 

 A. C. Lawson, of the State University; 

 Mr. G. K. Gilbert, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey ; Professor Fielding Reid, of Johns 

 Hopkins University; Professor J. C. Bran- 

 ner, of Stanford University ; Professor A. 

 0. Leusehner, of the State University ; Pro- 

 fessor George Davidson, of the State Uni- 

 versity; Professor Charles Burekhalter, of 

 the Chabot Observatory, and Professor 

 William Wallace Campbell, director of the 

 Lick Observatory. Professor Lawson was 

 elected chairman and Professor Leusehner 

 secretary. The results of the inquiry com- 

 municated to Governor Pardee on May 31, 

 are as follows: 



One of the remarkable features of the 

 Coast Ranges of California is a line of 

 peculiar geomorphic expression which ex- 

 tends obliquely across the entire width of 

 the mountainous belt from Mendocino 

 County to Riverside County. The peculi- 

 arity of the surface features along this line 

 lies in the fact that they are not due, as 

 nearly all the other features of the moun- 

 tains are, to atmospheric and stream erosion 

 of the uplifted mass which constitutes the 

 mountains, but have been formed by a dis- 

 location of the earth's crust, or rather a 

 series of such dislocations, in time past, 

 with a differential movement of the parts 

 on either side of the plane of rupture. In 

 general this line follows a system of long 

 narrow valleys, or where it passes through 

 wide valleys it lies close to the base of the 



