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, Januaey 10, 1908 



CONTENTS 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Report of the General Secretary for the 

 Chicago Meeting: President F. W. Mc- 



Naie 



Address of the Retiring President: The 

 Interdependence of Medicine and other Sci- 

 ences of Nature: Pbofessor William H. 

 Welch 



Scientific Books: — 



Neure Anschauungen auf dem Gebiete 

 der Anorganischen Chemie: Dr. Herman 

 ScHLESlNGEE. Colc's Manual of Biological 

 Projection : Pbofessoe M. F. Guter .... 



Societies and Academies: — 



The New Torh Academy of Sciences : Dr. E. 

 O. HovET. Biological Section: De. Rot 

 Waldo Miner. The Geological Society of 

 Washington : Dr. Feed E. Wright 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



A Better Method of Preparing Herbarium 

 Specimens: Professor W. A. Kelleeman. 69 



Special Articles: — 



Altamaha Formation of the Coastal Plain 



of Georgia : Otto Veatch 71 



Current Notes on Meteorology and Climatol- 

 ogy:— 

 Lightning Vagaries; Cloud Classification; 

 Meteorological Formulce and Tables; A 

 "Step" Anemometer: Professor R. DeC. 

 Ward 74 



The Meeting of the International Seismolog- 

 ical Association: Dr. Harry Fielding Reid 74 



Scientific Notes and News 76 



University and Educational News 80 



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 re-view should be sent to the Editor of Sciehce, Garrlson-on- 

 Hudson. N. Y- 



EEPOET OF THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE FOR THE CHICAGO 



MEETING, CONVOCATION WEEK, 1907-8 



The fifty-eighth meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 

 was held from December 30, 1907, to January 3, 1908, inclusive, at the University of 

 Chicago. 



This was the second meeting in Chicago, and, including the one at New Orleans, the 

 ninth which has been held so far west. The first Chicago meeting, the seventeenth of 

 the association, was held in August, 1868. Several things about it seem of interest in 

 this connection. The sessions were held in the Assembly Hall of the Y. M. C. A. Build- 

 ing and the Baptist Church, both located in what is now the downtown business section 

 of the city. The meeting was under the auspices of the citizens rather than of any 

 scientific or educational body. 



During the war no meetings were held, but in 1866 an effort was made to revive the asso- 

 ciation, and a meeting was informally called at Buffalo. It was attended by 79 persons. 



