SCIENCE 



Friday, Decembee 17, 1915 



CONTENTS 



decent Besearches in the Woleott Giibs Me- 

 morial Laboratory of Harvard University: 

 Pkopessor Theodoke W. Eichards 845 



The Life of Radium: Peopessor B. B. Bolt- 

 wood 851 



A Suggested Explanation of "Orthogenesis" 

 in Plants: Professor John M. Coulter. 859 



The Convocation Week Meetings of Scientific 

 Societies 863 



fie Notes and News 865 



University and Educational News 868 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 

 Fre-Cambrian Nomenclature : Professor 

 Alfred C. Lane. Members Holding the 

 Longest Continuous Membership in the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science: Dr. L. O. Howard. Fan-Ameri- 

 can: Dk. Otto Klotz 869 



Scientific BooTcs: — 



Hesse and Doflein's Tierbau und Tierleben: 

 Professor G. H. Parker. Wooton and 

 Standley on the Flora of Neiu Mexico: 

 Professor T. D. A. Cockerell 870 



Scientific Journals and Articles 871 



Special Articles: — 



The Mounting of Celloidin Sections in Se- 

 ries: Professor Alban Stewart. The 

 Bole of Anopheles Functipennis Say in the 

 Transmission of Malaria: W. V. King .... 872 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 



Section G — Botany: Professor W. J. V. 

 OSTERHOUT 874 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Biological Society of Washington: M. 

 W. Lyon, Jr. The New Orleans Academy 

 of Sciences: Professor E. S. Cocks 880 



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

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

 On-Hudson, N. Y. 



BECENT BESEABCHES IN THE WOLCOTT 



GIBBS MEMORIAL LABOBATOBY OF 



HABVABD UNIVEBSITYi 



The Woleott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory 

 of Harvard University is one of the most 

 significant monuments ever built in memory 

 of a chemical investigator. So far as I 

 know, only the Davy-Faraday Laboratory 

 in London, the van't Hoff Laboratory in 

 Utrecht, and the Hofmann Haus in Berlin 

 equal it in importance. Because Professor 

 Woleott Gibbs was one of the founders and 

 presidents of the National Academy of Sci- 

 ences, an account of the memorial building 

 and of its first fruits is especially appro- 

 priate here to-day. 



The new laboratory was initiated by the 

 late Dr. Morris Loeb, the devoted and able 

 pupil of Gibbs. He and his brother, James 

 Loeb, subscribed $50,000, provided that 

 other friends of Harvard University should 

 raise $50,000 more. "With admirable feel- 

 ing. Dr. Loeb especially desired that the 

 building should be named in honor of his 

 former teacher and friend. In March, 1910, 

 Dr. Alexander Forbes and other generous 

 donors having greatly helped, the fund was 

 completed ; and in January, 1913, the build- 

 ing was opened for work, so that it has now 

 been almost three years in full activity. 



It is a great pleasure to express here the 

 very lively gratitude, both on behalf of the 

 university and on my own account, which 

 I feel for the liberal interest of all these 

 benefactors in the construction of this 

 building. 



Being the first of a large group of chem- 



1 Address delivered at the meeting of the Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences in New York, Novem- 

 ber 16, 1915. 



