SCIENCE 



Friday, September 19, 1913 



CONTENTS 



The Address of the President of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of 

 Science : — 

 Conti/imity: Sib Oliver Lodge 379 



A Summary of the Work of the U. S. Fish- 

 eries Marine Biological Station at Beau- 

 fort, N. C, during 1912: Lewis EADCLirFE 395 



Scientifio Notes and News 400 



University and Educational News 401 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Data of Inter-varietal and Inter-spe- 

 cifio Competition in their Selation to the 

 Proilem of Natural Selection: De. J. Ar- 

 thur Harris. Prepotency in Airedale Ter- 

 riers: Williams Hatnes. Mitosis in the 

 Adult Nerve Cells of the Colorado Beetle: 

 Dr. W. M. Smallwood, Charles G. Eogbrs 40'2 



Scientific Boohs: — 



Sigma Xi Quarter Century Becord and His- 

 tory: Dr. Marcus Benjamin. Haas and 

 Hill's Introduction to the Chemistry of 

 Plant Products: Dr. Boss Aiken Gortner 405 



Special Articles: 



The Organization of the Cell with respect 

 to Permeability: Professor W. J. "V. 

 OSTEEHOUT 408 



The Society of American Bacteriologists. II. : 



Sanitary Bacteriology ; Soil Bacteriology: 

 Dr. a. Paekee Hitchens 409 



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

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

 on-Hudson, N. Y. 



CONTINUITY ' 



Natura non vincitur nisi parendo. 



First let me lament the catastrophe 

 which has led to my occupying the chair 

 here in this city. Sir William White was 

 a personal friend of many here present, 

 and I would that the citizens of Birming- 

 ham could have become acquainted with 

 his attractive personality, and heard at 

 first hand of the strenuous work which he 

 accomplished in carrying out the behests 

 of the empire in the construction of its 

 first line of defence. 



Although a British Association address 

 is hardly an annual stocktaking, it would 

 be improper to begin this year of office 

 without referring to three more of our 

 losses: — One that cultured gentleman, 

 amateur of science in the best sense, who 

 was chosen to preside over our jubilee meet- 

 ing at York thirty-two years ago. Sir 

 John Lubbock, first Baron Avebury, culti- 

 vated science in a spirit of pure enjoyment, 

 treating it almost as one of the arts; and 

 he devoted social and political energy to 

 the welfare of the multitude of his fellows 

 less fortunately situated than himself. 



Through the untimely death of Sir 

 George Darwin the world has lost a mathe- 

 matical astronomer whose work on the 

 tides and allied phenomena is a monument 

 of power and achievement. So recently as 

 our visit to South Africa he occupied the 

 presidential chair. 



By the third of our major losses, I mean 

 the death of that brilliant mathematician 

 of a neighboring nation who took so com- 



^ Address of the president of the British Asso- 

 ciation. Read at Birmingham, September 10, 1913. 



