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 24, 1907 

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The American Philosophical Society 801 



The Society of American Bacteriologists: 

 Pkofessoe S. C. Peescott 805 



Scientific Books: — 



Eccperimentelle Beitrage «ur Morphologie: 

 C. R. B. Mayer on Rhythmical Pulsations 

 iti the Scyphomedusae : Peofessop. Feank 

 W. Banceoft 820 



Scientific Journals and Articles 822 



Societies amd Academies: — 



The Philosophical Society of Washington: 

 E. L. Faeis. The Geological Society of 

 Washington: Ralph Aenold. The Chem- 

 ical Society of Washington: J. A. LeCeeec. 823 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Another Word on the Vultur Case: De. J. 

 A. Allen. Sunspot Zones: Pbofessoe J. A. 

 Udden". African Basketry Weaves: Mart 

 Lois Kissell. Recuperative Power of Ital- 

 ian and English Workmen: L. H. Baeke- 



LAND 827 



Special Articles: — 



Some Latent Characters of a White Bean: 

 Db. Geoege H. Shtill 828 



Quotations : — 



The University of Oxford 832 



Current Notes on Land Forms: — 



Narrow Coastal Plains: I. B. and W. M. D. 

 Glacial Troughs and Hanging Lateral Val- 

 leys : W. M. D. Hanging Valleys in English 

 Lakeland: W. M. D. Hanging Valleys in 

 General: W. M. D 833 



The Wistar Institute of Anatomy 836 



Bermuda Biological Expedition: Professok 

 E. L. Mark 838 



Minutes of the First Meeting of the Committee 

 on Seismology: Professor William H. 

 HoBBS 838 



■Scientific Notes and News 839 



University and Educational News 840 



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

 TOTiew sliould be sent to the Editor of Sciekce, GarriBon-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 

 The annual meetings of the American 

 Philosophical Society, which this year were 

 held April 18 to 20, have now become a 

 permanent feature and are looked forward 

 to by the members as an agreeable occasion 

 for meeting colleagues from various parts 

 of the United States and for listening to 

 papers covering the entire range of scien- 

 tific investigation. In the latter respect 

 the sessions are unique, and it is perhaps 

 well in these days of extreme specialization 

 that there should be one organization which 

 should not merely cover all the so-called 

 natural sciences but extend its range to his- 

 tory, archeology and philology, as well as 

 literature. 



In all five sessions were held for the read- 

 ing of papers, which left plenty of time 

 for the full presentation of the thirty-five 

 papers that had been announced. The ses- 

 sion of Friday morning was rendered par- 

 ticularly interesting by the presence of 

 the Honorable James Bryce, the British 

 Ambassador, who was formally presented 

 to the members and made a happy address. 

 After the luncheon on Friday, Mr. Bryce 

 presented the gold medal of the Eoyal As- 

 tronomical Society to Professor Ernest W. 

 Brown, in recognition of his important con- 

 tributions to the problems relative to the 

 motions of the moon. 



The sessions were, as far as possible, so 

 arranged as to place papers of the same 

 class together. In accordance with this 

 plan, the papers for Thursday afternoon 

 and part of Friday morning were chiefly 



