SCIENCE 



Friday, November 25, 1910 



CONTENTS 

 Problems of Animal Morphology : Pbofessoe 

 G. C. BoUENE 729 



Oeography and Some of its More Pressing 

 Needs: Peofessob A. J. HEBBEETSorf .... 742 



The Association of American Universities . . 752 



The Salaries of Professors of Yale University 753 



Scientific Notes and News 753 



University and Ediicational News 756 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Reform of the Calendar: Pbofessoe T. 

 C. Chajibeelin. Antarctica as a Former 

 Land Connection between the Southern 

 Continents: De. Chables H. T. Towxse>'D. 

 American Education: Pbofessoe E. S. 

 WOODWOBTH 757 



Scientific Books: — 



Reid on the Laws of Heredity: J. P. McM. 761 



Report of the International Commission on 

 Zoological Nomenclature: De. Ch. Wab- 

 DEix Stiles 764 



Special Articles: — 



Preliminary Note on the Permeability to 

 Salts of the Cill Membraties of a Fish: G-. 

 G. Scott, G. F. Wdite. Pcedogenesis in 

 Tanytarsus: 0. A. Johaxxsex 767 



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

 i«Ti<ir should be K:!t to the Editor of Scis^tcs, Garri>on-oa- 

 Hodaea, N. T. 



PROBLEMS OF ANIMAL MORPHOLOGY '^ 

 In choosing a subject for the address 

 vdth which it is my duty, as president of 

 this section, to trouble you, I have found 

 mj'self in no small embarrassment. As 

 one whose basiness it is to lecture and 

 give instruction in the details of compara- 

 tive anatomy, and whose published work, 

 qualecunque sit, has been indited on tj'pi- 

 cal and, as men would now say, old-fash- 

 ioned morphological lines, I seem to stand 

 self-condemned as a morphologist. For 

 morphology, if I read the signs of the 

 times aright, is no longer in favor in this 

 country, and among a section of the zo- 

 ological world has almost fallen into dis- 

 grace. At all events, I have been very 

 frankly assured that this is the case by a 

 large proportion of the young gentlemen 

 whom it has been my fate to examine dur- 

 ing the past two years; and, as this seems 

 to be the opinion of the rising generation 

 of English zoologists, and as there are evi- 

 dent signs that their opinion is backed by 

 an influential section of their elders, I have 

 thought that it might be of some interest, 

 and perhaps of some use, if I took this op- 

 portunity of offering an apology for ani- 

 mal morphology. 



It is a sound rule to begin with a defini- 

 tion of terms, so I will first try to give a 

 short answer to the question "What is 

 morphology?" and, when I have given a 

 somewhat dogmatic answer, I will try to 

 deal in the course of this address with two 

 further questions: What has morphology 

 done for zoological science in the past? 



'■ Address to the Zoological Section of the Brit- 

 ish Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Sheffield, 1910. 



