CIENC 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THE 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



Pridat, April 10, 1908 



CONTENTS 

 The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — , 

 Section B — Physics: Peofessok F. N. Cole 561 



The Report of the President of the Carnegie 

 Institution 572 



Scientific Books: — 



Snyder's " The World Machine " : Dr. E. 

 G. Spalding. Kidd on the Sense of Touch 

 in Mamimals and Birds: Inez Whipple 

 Wilder 580 



Societies and Academies: — 



TJie Geological Society of Washington: 

 De. Ralph Aenold. The Botanical Society 

 of Washington: Haven IMetcalf. The 

 Philosophical Society of Washington: R. L. 

 Faris. The Elisha Mitchell Scientific So- 

 ciety : Pbofessoe A. S. Wheelee 585 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Sehaeherle, Becker and the Cooling Earth: 

 De. Alfred C. Lane 589 



Special Articles: — 



The Rediscovery of a Lost Art and a Feiv 

 Notes on the Theory of the Violin: Frank 

 Della Toree 592 



Quotations ;— 



Mercy to Mankind 593 



Current Notes on Meteorology and Climatol- 

 ogy:— 

 The Monthly Weather Review: Pbofessoe 

 R. Dec. Waed 594 



The Carnegie Foundation for the Advance- 

 ment of Teaching 595 



Scientifio Notes and News 596 



University and Educational News 600 



MSS. intended for publication and boobs, etc., Intended for 

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

 Hudson. N. Y. 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



SECTION B— PHYSICS. I. 



The annual meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, Section B, was held in the Ryerson 

 Laboratory of the University of Chicago, 

 December 30 and 31, 1907, January 1 and 

 2, 1908. This was a joint meeting with the 

 American Physical Society. Each society 

 held a short session for the transaction of 

 routine business, but all of the meetings 

 for the reading of papers were joint ses- 

 sions of the two organizations. 



The presiding officers were Professor 

 Dayton C. Miller, of the Case School of 

 Applied Science, vice-president and chair- 

 man of Section B, and Professor Edward 

 L. Nichols, president of the American 

 Physical Society. Other officers of Sec- 

 tion B present at the meeting were the re- 

 tiring vice-president, Wallace C. Sabine; 

 the secretary, Alfred D. Cole; member of 

 the council, Henry Crew; member of the 

 general committee, H. S. Carhart; members 

 of the sectional committee, W. C. Sabine, 

 D. C. Miller, A. D. Cole, F. E. Nipher, E. 

 L. Nichols and A. P. Carman (elected at 

 this meeting to serve for five years). 



For the next annual meeting, to be held 

 at Baltimore in the convocation week of 

 1908-9, and for the summer meeting to be 

 held at Hanover, N. H., during the week 

 beginning June 29, 1907, the officers elected 

 are: 



Vice-president and Chairman of Section B — 

 Karl E. Guthe. 



Retiring Vice-president — Dayton C. Miller. 



