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, May 17, 1907 

 contents 



The Oeologieal Society of America: De. Ed- 

 mund Otis Hovet 761 



Zoology at the New York Meeting, II.: Peo- 



FESSOE C. JUDSON HeERICK 775 



Scientific Boohs: — 



Pillsbury on Attention: Peofessoe Joseph 

 Jasteow. Whipple on the Value of Pure 

 Water: Peofessoe W. P. Mason. StarTce 

 on Alcohol: De. Geaham Lusk 785 



Scientific Journals and Articles 787 



Societies and Academies: — 



The American Mathem,atical Society: Peo- 

 fessoe P. N. Cole. Northeastern Section 

 of the American Chemical Society: Peo- 

 fessoe Feank H. Thokp 789 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The First Reviser of Species: Peofessoe S. 

 W. WiLLlSTON. Types of Genera by First 

 Species: De. Haeeison G. Dtab. A Sheep- 

 goat Hybrid: Db. W. J. Spillman 790 



Special Articles: — 



The Significance of Latent Characters: De. 

 Geoege Haeeison Shull 792 



Current Notes on Meteorology and Climatol- 

 ogy:— 



The Lop-Nor Desert; Franklin, the Kite 

 and the Lightning-rod: Peofessoe E. DeC. 

 Waed 794 



A Monument to Lamarch 795 



The Seventh International Zoological Congress 795 



Scientific Notes and News 797 



University and Educational Neics 800 



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

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

 HudscB, N. Y. 



TBE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA' 

 The New York meeting was the largest 

 in the history of the society, the number of 

 fellows and fellows-elect in attendance be- 

 ing 133. The sessions began Thursday 

 afternoon at Columbia University with the 

 business meeting and the reading of mem- 

 orials and were continued through Friday 

 and Saturday at the American Museum of 

 Natural History. Six titles were added to 

 the printed list, making eighty-six papers in 

 all on the program as offered. On account 

 of the long list of communications, the ses- 

 sions were held in two sections on Friday 

 and Saturday, but even with this arrange- 

 ment twenty-nine papers were read by 

 title only, and most of the remainder were 

 read in abbreviated form. 



The council accepted the invitation of 

 the University of New Mexico to hold the 

 annual meeting of 1907 at Albuquerque, 

 New Mexico, beginning December 30, 1907. 

 It was felt that a meeting in the west would 

 be of interest and advantage to the society 

 at large, since it would give an opportunity 

 for a general convention of the whole so- 

 ciety, the Cordilleran section having inti- 

 mated its willingness to meet in Albu- 

 querque, if the general society were to meet 

 there. 



The society will hold no summer meeting 

 this year, but the fellows have been invited 

 to join with Section E of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science 

 in a field meeting near Plattsburgh, N. Y. 



'Meeting in New York, December 27-29, 1906. 



