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, June 21, 1907 



CONTENTS 



LinnoBus as a Zoologist: Dr. J. A. Allen . . 953 



Scientific Books: — 



Hydrates in Aqueous Solution: Professor 

 Louis Kahlenberg. Lodge on Electrons 

 or the Nature and Properties of Negative 

 Electricity : Professor H. A. Bumstead . . 962 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Geological Society of Washington: Dr. 

 Fred E. Wright. The Philosophical So- 

 ciety of Washington: P. L. Faris. The 

 Anthropological Society of Washington: 

 J. M. Cassanowicz. The Chemical So- 

 ciety of Washington: J. A. LeClerc. The 

 Torrey Botanical Cluh : Dr. C. Stuart 

 Gager. The Iowa Anthropological Asso- 

 ciation: J. H. Paarmann 965 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The First Species Rule — an Objection: Dr. 

 F. A. Bather. The Great Inferior Tusked 

 Mastodon of the Loup Fork Miocene : 

 Charles H. Sternberg. Concerning Steno : 

 C. K. W 970 



Special Articles: — 



On Sun-spots: Professor Carl Barus. 

 Does the Mammalian Heart obey the Law 

 for Chemical Reaction Velocities as influ- 

 enced by Temperature? Charles D. Snyder. 

 The Flanking Detrital Slopes of the Moun- 

 tains of the Southioest: Professor Wil- 

 liam P. Blake 972 



Quotations : — 



The Presidency of the Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology 978 



Current Notes on, Meteorology and Clima- 

 tology: — 



Meissn-er's ' Meteorologisohe Elemente ' ; 

 ' Internationaler Meteorologischer Kodex ' : 

 Professor R. DeC. Ward 979 



Academic Salaries 980 



Scientific Notes and News 981 



University and Educational News 984 



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

 Hudson, K. Y. 



LINN^US AS A ZOOLOGIST^ 

 Carolus Linn^us, later known as Carl 

 von Linne, was born at Roeshult, in the 

 pi'oviuce of Smaland, Sweden, May 13, old 

 style, 1707, and died at Hammerby, near 

 Upsala, on January 10, 1778. His grand- 

 father was a farmer; his father, a clergy- 

 man. Young Linnseus, the future natural- 

 ist, was intended by his parents for the 

 ministry, and his early education was con- 

 ducted with this end in view. At the age 

 of ten, he was sent to the Latin school at 

 Vexio, biit after seven years at this school 

 he was found to be so deficient in his 

 scholastic studies that his parents thought 

 of apprenticing him to a shoemaker. 



While at Vexio, much of his time was 

 devoted to the study of plants and insects, 

 an inclination apparently favored by his 

 master, who was himself greatly interested 

 in botany. Fortunately young Linnseus 

 was rescued from his threatened degrada- 

 tion by Dr. John Rothman, a physician of 

 Vexio, who recognized his superior abilities 

 and appreciated his interest in natural his- 

 tory. He took him into his own home, 

 where for a year LinnEeus continued his 

 botanical studies, aided by the advice and 

 library of his patron. At the age of 

 twenty he entered the University of Lund, 

 where he soon found himself without means 

 of support, through the death of his patron 

 and friend, the kind-hearted physician of 

 Vexio. Fortunately he soon won the 

 friendship of Dr. Kilian Stobeeus, the pro- 

 '■ Read at the exercises of the New York Acad- 

 emy of Sciences in commemoration of the two 

 hundredth anniversary of the birth of Linnseus. 



