SCIENCE 



Friday, September 23, 1910 

 contents 



Address to the Mathematical and Physical 

 Section of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science: Pbofessoe E. W. 

 HOBSON 385 



Grants by the British Association 403 



Scientific Notes and News 404 



Vmversity and Educational News 406 



jyiscussion and Correspondence: — 



The Spectrum of Mars: G. R. Agassiz, 

 Dk. W. W. Campbell 407 



Quotations : — - 



Th^ British Association 408 



Scientific Books: — 

 Osborne on The Vegetable Proteins: Pbo- 

 fessoe Lafayette B. Mendel. Our Search 

 for a Wilderness : Louis Agassiz Fuebtes 409 



Scientific Journals and Articles 411 



Special Articles: — 



The Prevention of the Toxic Action of Vari- 

 ous Agencies upon the Fertilized Egg 

 through the Suppression of Oxidation in the 

 Cell: Pkofesssoe Jacqxjes Loeb. Oscilla- 

 tions in Electric Discharge: Pbofessoe 

 Feancis E. Niphee 4II 



The International Geological Congress at 

 Stockholm : Pbofessoe Wm. Hebbebt Hobbs 413 



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

 levisw Ehould be 8e2t to the Editor of SciEfiCE, Garriaon-oo- 

 Hodson, N. Y. 



ADDRESS TO THE MATHEMATICAL AND 

 PHYSICAL SECTION OF THE BRITISH 

 ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 

 MENT OF SCIENCE^ 



Since the last meeting of our association 

 one of the most illustrious of the British 

 workers in science during the nineteenth 

 century has been removed from us by the 

 death of Sir William Huggins. In the mid- 

 dle of the last century Sir William Hug- 

 gins commenced that pioneer work of ex- 

 amination of the spectra of the stars which 

 has insured for him enduring fame in con- 

 nection with the foundation of the science 

 of astrophysics. The exigencies of his 

 work of analysis of the stellar spectra led 

 him to undertake a minute examination of 

 the spectra of the elements with a view to 

 the determination of as many lines as pos- 

 sible. To the spectroscope he later added 

 the photographic film as an instrument of 

 research in his studies of the heavenly 

 bodies. In 1864 Sir William Huggins 

 made the important observation that many 

 of the nebula have spectra which consist 

 of bright lines ; and two years later he ob- 

 served, in the case of a new star, both 

 bright and dark lines in the same spectrum. 

 In 1868 his penetrating and alert mind 

 made him the first to perceive that the 

 Doppler principle could be applied to the 

 determination of the velocities of stars in 

 the line of sight, and he at once set about 

 the application of the method. His life- 

 work, in a domain of absorbing interest, 

 was rewarded by a rich harvest of discov- 

 eiy, obtained as the result of most patient 

 and minute investigations. The "Atlas of 

 Representative Stellar Spectra," published 



^Sheffield, 1910. 



