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 



Feidat, May 10, 1907 



CONTENTS 

 Zoology at the New York Meeting: Pbofessoe 

 C. JuDSON Heeeick 721 



Scientific Books: — 



Report of the Wellcome Research Labora- 

 tories: Pbofessob HenetB. Wabd. A 1671 

 English Version of Nicolaus Steno's de 

 solido intra solidum naturalitur contento: 

 PEOFESSOE J. B. WOODWOETH 737 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Society for Experimental Biology and 

 Medicine: Peofessoe Wm. J. Gies. The 

 Biological Society of Washington: M. C. 

 Mabsh 739 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The First Species Rule: PsorEssoE John B. 

 Smith. The Anthropological Exhibits in 

 the American Museum of Natural History: 

 Henet L. Waed. Magazine Science: Cheis- 

 TTNE Ladd Feankun 744 



Special Articles: — 



The Ether Freezing Microtome in Botanical 

 Technique : E. M. Feeeman 747 



Astronomical Notes: — 



The Tale Parallaxes: Peofessoe S. I. 

 Batt.ey 749 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science — the Plattshurg Meeting of 

 the Section of Geology and Geography : De. 

 E. P. GuxtrvEB 751 



The Leicester Meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation 753 



The American Museum of Natural History . . 754 



The Second Annual Meeting of the American 

 Association of Museums 755 



The Carnegie Institution and a Department 

 of Anthropology 756 



Notes amd News 757 



University and Educational News 760 



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

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



ZOOLOGY AT THE NEW YORK MEETING 

 I 

 At the convocation week meetings held 

 in New York, December 27, 1906, to Jan- 

 uary 2, 1907, Section F of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence and the Eastern Branch of the Amer- 

 ican Society of Zoologists held joint meet- 

 ings throughout for the reading of papers. 

 In the forenoon of Friday, December 28, 

 there was a joint session of these two socie- 

 ties with Section G, devoted to papers on 

 animal and plant breeding, and in the 

 afternoon of the same day the societies 

 joined with the American Society of Nat- 

 uralists in a discussion on the biological 

 significance and control of sex, which has 

 been published in full in Science for 

 March 8. Section F and the Society of 

 Zoologists held separate business sessions, 

 the proceedings of which follow. 



SECTION F 



A business meetiag was held December 

 27 for the election of officers, and the sec- 

 tion was represented in a committee of the 

 council which recommended the appoint- 

 ment by the president of the association of 

 a committee to arrange a suitable memorial 

 of the fiftieth anniversary of the publica- 

 tion of the 'Origin of Species.' The offi- 

 cers for the ensuing year are as follows: 



