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, March 15, 1907 



CONTENTS 

 The New York Meeting of Section C of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science and the Thirty-fifth Meeting of 

 the American Chemical Society: C. E. 

 Waters 401 



The Association of American Geographers: 

 Pkofessoe Albert Peeey Bbigham 416 



Scientific Books: — 



Doelter's Petrogenesis : Pbofessob J. P. 

 Iddings. Mansfield's The Origin and Struc- 

 ture of the Roxlmry Conglomerate: S. L. 

 W. Bailey's Text-look of Sanitary and Ap- 

 plied Chemistry: X 417 



Scientific Journals and Articles 419 



Societies and Academies: — 



The American Mathematical Society: Pbo- 

 fessob F. N. Cole. Society for Experi- 

 mental Biology and Medicine: Pbofessob 

 WiTT.TAM J. Gies. The Biological Society 

 of Washington: M. 0. Marsh 420 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Reversion induced by Cross-breeding : Q. I. 

 and J. P. Simpson. Relations of Salary to 

 Title in American Universities: Professor 

 ■ T. D. A. COCKERELL 426 



Special Articles: — 



River Capture in the Tallulah District, 

 Georgia: Pbofessob Douglas Wilson 

 Johnson. Reasons for believing in an 

 Ether: Dr. Daniel F. Comstock 428 



Notes on Organic Chemistry: — 

 Glyoxal : Dr. J. Bishop Tingle 433 



Current Notes on Meteorology and Climatol- 

 ogy:— 

 Hail-shooting — the Question settled; Trop- 

 ical Cyclo7ie Tracks; The Briickner Period 

 of Rainfall in Rio de Janeiro; Meteorolog- 

 ical Phenomena of Volcanic Eruptions; 

 Tree-planting for Snow-breaks; Note: Pro- 

 fessor R. DeC. Ward 434 



Photographs of Faint Stars: Professor Ed- 

 WABD 0. Pickering 435 



The Seismological Society of America 437 



Scientific Notes and News 437 



University and Educational News 440 



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

 review should be sent to the Editor of Sciencb, Garrison-OD- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



TEE NEW YORK MEETING OF SECTION C 

 OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR 

 THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 

 AND THE THIRTY-FIFTH GEN- 

 ERAL MEETING OF THE 

 AMERICAN CHEMICAL 

 SOCIETY— I. 



The meetings were held in the Have- 

 meyer Chemical Laboratory of Columbia 

 University. On Thursday morning, De- 

 cember 27, Section C was organized with 

 Vice-President Clifford Richardson in the 

 chair. 



Dr. H. P. Talbot was elected councilor, 

 Dr. J. H. Long, member of the general 

 committee; Dr. Leonard P. Kinnicutt, 

 member of the sectional committee, and Dr. 



C. E. Waters, press secretary. 

 Immediately following this, the opening 



meeting of the American Chemical Society 

 was held with President "W. P. Hillebrand 

 in the chair. Two addresses were de- 

 livered: 'The Advisability of Restricting 

 the Use of the Ionic Theory in Teaching 

 Qualitative Analysis,' by H. L. Wells, and 

 'The Chemist and the Community,' by A. 



D. Little. 



In the discussion which followed the 

 second address reference was made to the 

 establishment of the Perkin Chemical 



