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, April 5, 1907. 



CO'SITE'NTS 

 The American Assooiation for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section B — Physics: Pkofessoe Dayton C. 



MlLLEE 521 



Scientific Books: — 



Morgan's Qualitative Analysis: Peofessob 

 Jas. Lewis Howe 535 



Scientific Journals and Articles 537 



Societies and Academies: — 



The New York Section of the American 

 Chemical Society: C. M. Joyce. Section of 

 Geology and Mineralogy of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences: Db. Alexis A. 

 JuUEN. The Torrey Botanical Gluh: C. 

 Stuaet Gagee 537 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Inheritance of the Belt in Hampshire 

 Swine: De. W. J. Spillman. Wing Veins 

 of Insects: Peofessob C. W. Woodwoeth. 

 Delaying the Blossoming of Peach Trees by 

 Etherization: V. A. Claek. An Illinois 

 State Academy of Science: Peofessob A. 

 R. Ceook. The University of Maine and 

 the State Legislature: P. L. R. The Asso- 

 ciated Press and Newspaper Science: Mel- 

 ville E. Stone 541 



Special Articles: — 



The First Species Rule for determining 

 Types of Oenera — Eow it works in Orni- 

 thology : De. J. A. Allen 546 



Current Notes on Meteorology and Climatol- 

 ogy:— 

 Cumulus Clouds over the San Francisco 

 Fire: Peofessob R. DeC. Wabd 554 



The Shaler Memorial Fund 555 



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

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



The Inland Watenoays Commission 556 



Scientific Notes and News 557 



University and Educational News 560 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



SECTION B— PHYSICS 



The annual meeting of Section B, 

 Physics, of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, was held in 

 Fayerweather Hall of Columbia Univer- 

 sity, in New York City, on December 27, 

 28 and 29, 1906. The annual meeting of 

 the American Physical Society occurred at 

 the same time and place ; each society nomi- 

 nally held a separate meeting for the trans- 

 action of business, but all of the sessions 

 for the reading of papers were joint ses- 

 sions. 



The presiding officers were Professor W. 

 C. Sabine, of Harvard University, vice- 

 president and chairman of Section B, and 

 Professor Carl Barus, of Brown Univer- 

 sity, president of the American Physical 

 Society. The other officers of Section B 

 who were present were the retiring vice- 

 president, Henry Crew; the secretary, D. 

 C. Miller; member of the council, E. F. 

 Nichols ; member of the general committee, 

 William Hallock ; members of the sectional 

 committee, Henry Crew, W. C. Sabine, D. 

 C. Miller, B. B. Eosa (elected at this meet- 

 ing to serve for five years), G. F. Hull, B. 

 L. Nichols; press secretary, W. S. Day. 



For the next meeting, to be held in 

 Chicago, in convocation week of 1907-8, 

 the officers, so far as now determined, are: 



