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, June 12, 1908 



COTHTETflTS 

 The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section F — Zoology: Peofessor Thomas 

 G. Lee 905 



Scientific Boohs: — 



ScientifiG Publications of the American 

 Museum of Natural History: De. L. P. 

 Geatacap 920 



Societies and Academies: — 



The American Chemical Society, diorth- 

 eastern Section: Professoe Frank H. 

 Thorp. The Geological Society of Wash- 

 ington: Philip S. Smith. The Torrey 

 Botanical Club : Dr. C. Stuart Gageb . . 923 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Adams Fund: R. J. H. DeLoach. 

 Likely Places for Evidence as to the His- 

 tory of the Evolution of the Anthropoid 

 Apes and Primitive Man : S. P. Veenee . . 927 



Special Articles: — 

 A Simple Reflection Goniometer: Peo- 

 fessor Austin F. Rogers. The Existence 

 of Roestelia penicillata and its Telial 

 Phase in North America: Dr. Frank D. 

 Keen 929 



Research Defense Society 931 



The Administration of Syracuse University 932 



Hanover Meeting of the American Associor 

 tion for the Advancement of Science: Dr. 

 L. O. Howard 934 



Scientific Notes and News 934 



and Educational News 936 



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 leview should be sent to the Editor of Sciencb, Garrison-ou- 

 Hudson. N. Y. 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 



SECTION F— ZOOLOGY 



THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ZOOLOGISTS 



A JOINT session of the Central Branch 

 of the American Society of Zoologists with 

 Section F, Zoology, of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science 

 was held at the University of Chicago, De- 

 cember 30, 1907, to January 4, 1908. This 

 was the sixth meeting of the Central 

 Branch of the American Society of Zoolo- 

 gists, and the largest in its history. Presi- 

 dent S. A. Forbes, of the Central Branch, 

 presided at all the sessions, as President E. 

 B. Wilson, of Section F, was unable to be 

 present. 



The society met at 2 :30 p.m., December 

 30, at which time E. B. Conklin, the retir- 

 ing vice-president of Section F, delivered 

 an address upon "The Mechanism of 

 Heredity." The following are the titles 

 and abstracts of papers presented at this 

 meeting. 



On the Specific Gravity of the Constituent 

 Parts of the Egg of Chcetopterus and the 

 Effect of Centrifuging on the Polarity of 

 the Egg: Frank R. Lillie, University 

 of Chicago. 



As the result of experiments with centrif- 

 ugal forces of graded powers, the author 

 concluded that the protoplasm of the 

 polarized ovocyte of Chcetopterus possesses 

 both a polar and a concentric organization 

 of its ground substance, which is the basis 

 of the so-called "segregation pattern," 

 or arrangement of granules ("sub- 



