SCIENCE 



Friday, October 29, 1915 



TEE IMPOSTANCE OF GEOGBAPHICAL BE- 

 SEABCm 



This year, when the British Association 

 is holding its meeting in times of the ut- 

 most gravity, the changed conditions which 

 have been brought about by this war must 

 occupy the attention of all the sections to 

 a greater or less extent, and our attention 

 is being called to many fields in which our 

 activities have been less marked or more 

 restricted than they might have been, and 

 where more serious study is to be desired. 

 The same introspection may be usefully 

 exercised in geography, for although that 

 branch of knowledge has undoubtedly ad- 

 vanced in a remarkable degree during the 

 last few decades, we have certainly allowed 

 some parts of the subject to receive inade- 

 quate attention as compared with others, 

 and the necessity for more serious study of 

 many of its problems is abundantly evi- 

 dent. 



Nor is the present occasion ill adapted to 

 such an examination of our position, for 

 when the British Association last met in 

 this city, now twenty-eight years ago, the 

 president of this section. General Sir 

 Charles Warren, urged in his address the 

 importance of a full recognition of geog- 

 raphy in education on the grounds that a 

 thorough knowledge of it is required in 

 every branch of life, and is nowhere more 

 important than in diplomacy, politics and 

 administration. 



Matters have certainly advanced greatly 

 since that time, and a much fuller appreci- 



^,. ^. J t. V. » ■ f ^..1 f™ 1 Presidential address to the Geographical See- 



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review should be sent to ProfeBsor J. McKeenCattell, Garrison- tion of the British Association, Manchester, Sep- 



on-Hudson. N. Y. tember, 1915. 



CONTENTS 



The Importance of Geographical Beseareh: 

 Major H. G. Lyons 585 



Some Aspects of Scientifio Beseareh: Pko- 

 PESSOK C. Alfred Jacobson 598 



The v. S. Fisheries Biological Station at 

 Woods Sole 605 



The Colurnbvs Meeting of the American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science: 

 Db. L. 0. Howard 606 



Scientifio Notes and News 606 



University and Educational News 608 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



International Bules of Zoological Nomencla- 

 ture: Dr. Charles Wabdell Stiles. Ger- 

 minating Pollen: E. J. Kbaits 609 



Scientific Books: — 



McFarlane's Economic Geography : Pro- 

 fessor A. P. Brigham. Adams on lo and 

 its Environment: Dr. Frank E. Lutz .... 611 



The Pliocene Floras of Holland: Dr. Edward 

 W. Berry 613 



Special Articles: — 



The Measurement of Oxidation in the Sea- 

 urchin Egg: L. V. Heilbrunn. A Bac- 

 terial Disease of Western Wheat-grass: Dr. 

 P. J. O'Gara 615 



Beport of the San Francisco Meetings of Sec- 

 tion F of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science: Professor H. V. 

 Nbal 617 



