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, January 25, 1907 



GO'NTE'NTS 



On Some Points of Importa/nce to Anatomists : 

 Peofessob Fbanklin p. Matt. 121 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Some Phases of Prehistoric Archeology: 

 Pkofessob Geoege Gbant MacOuedy 125 



American Society of Biological Chemists: 

 Peofessob William J. Gies 139 



Scientific Books: — 



Beehe on The Bird, its Form and En- 

 vironment: F. A. L. Oroth's Chemische 

 Krystallographie : Peofessob Edwaed H. 

 Keatjs. Bergen's Principles of Botany: 

 Peofessob Chaeles E. Besset 142 



Scientific Journals and Articles 145 



Societies and Academies: — 

 The American Philosophical Society 145 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The First Species Rule vs. the Law of 

 Priority in Determining Types of Genera: 

 De. Ch. Waedell Stiles. The First Spe- 

 cies Rule versus Elimination: Witmee 

 Stone 145 



Special Articles: — 



On a Case of Reversion induced by Cross- 

 breeding and its Fixation: Peofessob W. 

 E. Castle 151 



Botanical Notes: — 



The Rusts of Australia; Popular Cana- 

 dian Botany; The Philippine Journal of 

 Science: Peofessob Chaeles E. Besset. . 153 



Fellows elected at the New York Meeting of 

 the American Association 155 



The Sheffield Lecture Course 156 



Scientific Notes and News 156 



and Educational News 160 



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

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

 llui'.tnn, N. Y, 



ON SOME POINTS OF IMPORTANCE TO 

 ANATOMISTS^ 



It has been said that the president of a 

 scientific association should not burden its 

 meeting with an address in case the com- 

 munications to be made to it are numerous 

 and of value. If this be true it seems to 

 me that we have reached a stage at which 

 silence on my part would be appropriate, 

 but I can not resist the temptation to exer- 

 cise my right to speak, for a few minutes 

 only, regarding some points which I con- 

 sider to be of vital importance to our pro- 

 fession and to this association. 



I think we have safely passed the pioneer 

 stage in the development of scientific pro- 

 fessions in America and it is unnecessary 

 now to formulate the forces which have 

 brought this change about, for they are 

 known to us all. However, during the de- 

 velopment of a science, it is well for the 

 workers in it to meet from time to time 

 to pass judgment upon the recent progress 

 that has been made. Their approval, giv^n 

 on such an occasion to an investigator, is 

 a most encouraging stimulus and election 

 by his colleagues to the presidency of such 

 a meeting is the highest honor a scientist 

 can receive. I accept with gratitude this 

 elevated post to which you have appointed 

 me and regard it not as approbation of 

 myself, but rather as a mark of apprecia- 

 tion of the co-workers, whom I have had 

 the good fortune to have associated with 



• Remarks by the president at the twenty-first 

 meeting of the Association of American Anato- 

 mists, New York, December 27, 1906. 



