SCIENCE 



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



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



Fkiday, April 17, 1908 



CONTENTS 

 Medical Laboratories — Their Belations to 

 Medical Practise and to Medical Discov- 

 ery: Peofessoe Lewellys F. Babkee ... 601 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section B — Physics: Peofessoe Aifbed D. 

 Cole 611 



Scientific Books: — 

 Bower's The Origin of a Land Flora: Peo- 

 fessoe Chaeles E. Besset. Bouvier's 

 Monographie des Onychophores : T. D. A. C. 618 



Scientific Journals and Articles 621 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Section of Geology and Mineralogy of 

 the New York Academy of Sciences: De. 

 Chaeles P. Beeket. The Biological So- 

 ciety of Washington: M. C. Maesh. The 

 Philosophical Society of Washington: R. L. 

 Faeis. The Anthropological Society of 

 Washington : De. Waltee Hough 622 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Toxicity as a Factor in the Productive 

 Capacity of Soils: Peofessoe F. H. King 626 



Special Articles: — 



A New Apparatus for, Measuring Elec- 

 trolytic Resistance: Peofessoe Aethue 

 Whitmoee Smith - 635 



The American Association of Museums: 

 Paul M. Rea 636 



Scientific Notes and News 637 



and Educational News 639 



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

 review should be sent to the Editor of Scikkok, GarriBon-on- 

 Hudson. N. Y. 



MEDICAL LABORATORIES: THEIR RELA- 

 TIONS TO MEDICAL PRACTISE AND' 

 TO MEDICAL DISCOVERY '^ 



To be asked to give an address on an 

 occasion so worthy of joyful and honorable 

 celebration as that which has brought us 

 together to-day is an honor of which I am 

 far from being insensible. When the in- 

 vitation to the formal opening of your new 

 building came in letters from my former 

 schoolmate, Dr. Third, and the dean of 

 your medical faculty, Dr. Connell, I was 

 much pleased; though I knew that it came 

 to me mainly on account of the fact that 

 I happen to occupy a chair in an institu- 

 tion especially identified with medical labo- 

 ratories, medical instruction and medical 

 research, I could not help but feel grateful 

 to fortuity for the favor she brought. 

 Born in Canada, educated in Canadian 

 schools, a graduate of a medical college in 

 this province and at one time licensed to 

 practise among the people of Ontario, I 

 have every reason for filial affection to this 

 great country and rejoice in my right to 

 share your pride in its phenomenal ad- 

 vance. And no advance seems to me 

 greater than that which you have been 

 making in the betterment of medical edu- 

 cation and in the promotion of medical 

 knowledge; one striking evidence of it is 

 before us in the new building which you 

 have just now met to dedicate. 



The subject which I have chosen for my 

 remarks, namely, "Medical Laboratories: 



'An address delivered at the formal opening 

 of the Medical Laboratories Building, Queen's 

 University, Kingston, Canada, January 14, 1908. 



