SCIENCE 



Febdat, October 14, 1910 



CO^^TENTS 



William James: Db. Henet Rutgers Mak- 

 SHALL 489 



Hurface Tension in Relation to Cellular Pro- 

 cesses. II : Peofessoe A. B. Macallum . . 492 



The Eighth International Zoological Con- 

 gress : Peofessoe Chaei^s L. Edwabds . . 502 



Scientific Notes and News 504 



Unwersiiy and Ed^icational News 508 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Ammba meleagridis: Db. Theobald Smith. 

 Winchell on Ophitic Tewture: Peofessoe 

 Alfeed C. Lane. The Reform of the Cal- 

 endar: Peofessoe Andeew H. Patteeson 509 



Scientific Books: — 



Physical Science in the Time of Nero : 

 Bbotheb Potamian. Allen's Commercial 

 Organic Analysis: Peofessoe W. A. Notes 515 



Scientific Journals and Articles 516 



Notes on Entomology : Dk. Xathax Banks . 517 



Special Articles: — 



The Selective Elimination of Organs: Dk. 



J. Abthxie Habris 519 



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

 revieTT ahould be Bent to th< Editor of Science, Garrison-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



WILLIAM JAMES 



Those who had known William James 

 only through his writings must have felt 

 no little surprise to learn that he had all 

 but reached his sixty-ninth birthday, and 

 that he had for many years been made 

 painfully aware of the organic trouble that 

 finally took him from us. For during 

 these later years of his life his most telling 

 writings had appeared in rapid succession ; 

 writings so full of the spirit and vigor of 

 youth that it was difficult even for his 

 friends to realize that he was approaching 

 the limit of three score years and ten, and 

 that infirmity threatened him. 



These later years, as aU his readers 

 know, were devoted to the promulgation 

 of certain metaphysical doctrines, and it is 

 indicative of the persuasive power of the 

 man that the audience gained by him 

 among men of science in the beginning of 

 his career was not lost when he asked them 

 to consider subjects usually looked upon 

 as quite foreign to their mode of thought. 



For it must be remembered that he made 

 his first impression as a man of marked 

 ability among scientific men. He was edu- 

 cated in the Lawrence Scientific School. 

 He accompanied Agassiz on one of his 

 scientific expeditions. He took the degree 

 of doctor of medicine at the Harvard 

 School, and shortly after devoted some 

 years to the teaching of phj'siologj'. 

 And it was in connection with physi- 

 ological studies that we first have indi- 

 cations of a fullj'' awakened interest in 

 the nature of the mental changes that ac- 

 company bodily activities. In his early 

 psychological essays, such for instance as 

 those on instinct and habit, and in his later 



