SCIENCE 



Friday, May 12, 1916 



CONTENTS 

 The One Hundredth Anniversary of the 

 United States Coast and Geodetic Sur- 

 vey : — 



Account of the Celebration: William 

 Bowie 655 



Address of the President of the United 

 States ". . . 656 



The United States Geological Survey and 

 its Relation to the United States Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey: Dr. George Otis Smith. 659 



Addresses at the Centennial Exercises .... 665 



Fraternitas Medicorum — a Report and a Dis- 

 cussion : Dk. S. J. Meltzer 675 



Grants for Scientific Research: Professor 

 Charles R. Cross 680 



The New YorTc Meeting of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ience 681 



Ho Notes and News 682 



University and Educational News 685 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Origin of Pacific Island Faunas: Dr. 

 W. D. Matthew. Belgian Hare, a Mis- 

 leading Misnomer: Dr. M. W. Lton, Jr. 

 The Vapor Pressure of Solutions: Pro- 

 fessor James H. Ransom 686 



Scientific BooTcs: — 

 Newell and Drayer on Engineering as a 

 Career: Professor W. F. M. Goss. Levy 

 on the Rare Earths: Philip E. Browning. 

 Cunningham on Relativity and the Electron 

 Theory: Professor Edwin Bidwell Wil- 

 son 687 



Special Articles: — 



The Relation of Osmotic Pressure and Im- 

 bibition in the Living Muscle: Dr. Jacques 

 LoEB 688 



Societies and Academies : — 

 The Kansas Academy of Science 690 



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

 MTlew should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 on-Eudson, K. Y. 



THE ONE-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 



OF THE UNITED STATES COAST 



AND GEODETIC SURVEY 



ACCOUNT OF THE CELEBRATION 



In eighteen hundred and sixteen the 

 United States Coast Survey was organized 

 under Mr. Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, as 

 superintendent, and field work was begun. 



This event was fittingly celebrated in 

 Washington on the fifth and sixth of April 

 last by public meetings in the auditorium 

 of the New National Museum at "Washing- 

 ton at which papers were presented by rep- 

 resentative men in the fields of science, 

 engineering, commerce, government and 

 military aifairs. 



The celebration closed with a banquet at 

 the New Willard Hotel, the evening of the 

 sixth, at which the President of the United 

 States was the principal speaker. The 

 other banquet addresses were by the Secre- 

 tary of the Navy, the Secretary of Com- 

 merce, the minister of Switzerland, and 

 former superintendent of the Survey, Dr. 

 T. C. Mendenhall. 



The superintendent of the Survey, Mr. 

 E. Lester Jones, presided at the banquet 

 and at the three public sessions at the mu- 

 seum. He opened the session with well- 

 chosen remarks and was followed by Mr. 

 Redfield, Secretary of Commerce, the de- 

 partment of which the Survey is a bureau. 

 Mr. Redfield paid a tribute to the valuable 

 work done by the members of the Survey 

 during the hundred years of its existence. 

 He made a plea for support from the public 

 and from Congress in order that the Survey 

 might greatly extend its usefulness to the 

 science, industries, commerce and defense 

 of the nation. 



