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, Maech 20, 1908 



CONTENTS 



The American Society of Zoologists — I: Dr. 

 Leeande Loss Woodbuff 441 



Extracts from a Report presented to the Cor- 

 poration of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology hy Arthur A. Noyes, Acting- 

 president 456 



Scientific Books: — 



Riley on American Philosophy: Peofessoe 



A. O. LovEJOT 464 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Washington Academy of Sciences: J. S. 

 DiLLEE. The Geological Society of Amer- 

 ica: Ralph Aenold. Society for Experi- 

 mental Biology and Medicine: De. Wm. J. 

 GiES. The Torrey Botanical Clui: De. C. 

 Stuart Gagee. The American Mathemat- 

 ical Society: Peofessoe F. N. Cole 466 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Lafayette Deposits in Louisiana: De. W J 

 McGee. a Eandy Substitute for the Blast 

 Blowpipe in Blowpipe Analysis: Peofessoe 

 Charles W. Beown 472 



Special Articles: — 



Transplantation of Formaldehyde-fi-xed 

 Blood Vessels: De. C. C. Guthrie. A 

 Drought-resistant Hickory: C. G. Bates . . 473 



Current Notes on Meteorology and Climatol- 

 ogy:— 

 Kassner's Meteorological Olohes; Water- 

 spouts on the Swiss Lakes; A Hygroscope 

 of a Unique Pattern: Professor R. DeC. 

 Ward 474 



The First International Congress for the Re- 

 pression of Adulteration of Alimentary and 

 Pharmaceutical Products 475 



Recent References to Lamarck 477 



Scientific Notes and News 477 



University and Educational News 480 



MSS. iutended for publication and books, etc., intended fo* 

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

 Hudson, N. Y. 



THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ZOOLOGISTS 

 I. 



The fifth annual meeting of the Eastern 

 Branch of the American Society of Zool- 

 ogists, and the eighteenth since its estab- 

 lishment as the American Morphological 

 Society, was held at the Sheffield Scientific 

 School of Tale University on December 26, 

 27 and 28, 1907. 



The following officers were elected: 



President — William Morton Wheeler, American 

 Museum of Natural History. 



Vice-president — ^Herbert S. Jennings, Johns 

 Hopkins University. 



Secretary-Treasurer — Lorande Loss Woodrufif, 

 Yale University. 



Member of the Executive Committee — Gilman 

 A. Drew, University of Maine. 



Eight investigators were elected to mem- 

 bership, making the total membership of 

 the Eastern Branch 143. 



The society voted to contribute 100 

 francs to the Lamarck Memorial Fund. 



The following papers were presented: 



Some Stages in the Life History of Hcemo- 

 gregarina stephanowi, Danilewskya, of 

 Turtle's Blood: C. W. Hahn. 

 This hfemosporidian. was discovered by 

 Danilewsky in 1885. Through the work 

 of Saccharoff, Labbe, Langman, Simond, 

 Borner, Siegel, Brumt and DuCloux we 

 know that it is closely related to Lankes- 

 trella minima of the frog, which has been 

 the subject of more extensive research. 

 But the results of the investigation which 

 is here reported go to show that the struc- 

 ture and life history of H. stephanowi can 

 not be considered a very close parallel to 



