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Inorganic chemistry. 



Organic chemistry. 



Petrography, mineral- 

 ogy> crystallography. 



Dynamic geology, physi- 

 ography. 



Historical geology, 

 stratigraphy, paleon- 



Metallurgy. Assaying. 

 Water analysis. Chem- 

 ical engineering. 



Pharmacology. Food 

 analysis. 



Economic geology. Min- 

 ing engineering. 



Eiver and harbor im- 

 provement. 



Geological mapping and 

 correlation. 



Agrogeology (soil sci- Agriculture (in part), 

 ence). Soil mapping and 



classification. 

 Biology, or genetics. Plant and animal breed- 



ing. Eugenics. 

 Systematic botany. Pa- Economic botany. 



leobotany. 

 Plant morphology and Plant pathology, etc. 



physiology. 

 Plant ecology, sociology Agriculture (in part). 



and geography. Forestry. 



Systematic zoology. Ani- Classification. Taxi- 



mal morphology. Pa- dermy. Restoration of 

 leozoology. extinct species. 



Animal physiology, ecol- Veterinary medicine, 

 ogy and behavior. Economic entomology 



and ornithology. 

 Human anatomy and Medicine and surgery. 



physiology. Hygiene. 



Psychology. Psychiatry. Pedagogy. 



Advertising. 

 Anthropology, ethnol- 

 ogy, archeology. 

 Sociology, demography. Finance. Civics. Legis- 



economics. lation. 



Geography. Cartography. Explora- 



tion. Regional de- 

 scription. 



Very likely it would be better to subdivide 

 the physical, chemical and zoological sections 

 more minutely, or at least differently. For 

 example, . it might be well to separate the elec- 

 tricians from other physicists, and the verte- 

 brate from the invertebrate zoologists. In 

 botany, too, the mycologists and bacteriolo- 

 gists have little in common with the students 

 of flowering plants, and might reasonably de- 

 mand separate sections, unless they are suffi- 

 ciently accommodated by affiliated societies. 

 Meteorology and climatology, with the re- 



lated art of weather forecasting, have not 

 been mentioned above, but they should have 

 a separate section, unless their followers are 

 too few, in which case it might be best to 

 unite meteorology with dynamic geology, and 

 climatology with geography. 



Of course the more numerous the sections 

 the more papers there will be which would be 

 equally appropriate for two different sections; 

 but this difficulty, which is inherent in all 

 classifications, will be more than offset by the 

 advantages of having the sections more homo- 

 geneous, and besides it can be partly over- 

 come by joint meetings, as heretofore. 



Incidentally some such classification as the 

 above should serve not only for the purposes 

 of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, but also for the scientific 

 departments of a large university. About the 

 middle of the last century, when the Asso- 

 ciation had only two sections, in some of our 

 largest institutions of learning all or nearly 

 all the sciences were taught by one or two 

 men, as is done in some small schools to-day. 

 Much more recently botany and zoology were 

 usually included in the same department, and 

 even yet few universities have more than one 

 botanical or zoological department, or a sep- 

 arate chair of geography; the last-named, 

 where taught at all to mature students, being 

 usually combined with geology or even with 

 pedagogy. Eoland M. Harper 



College Point, N. Y. 



SCIENTIFIC BOOKS 



National Antarctic Expedition, 1901-190^. 

 Meteorology Part II., comprising Daily Syn- 

 chronous Charts, 1 October, 1901, to 31 

 March, 1904. Prepared in the Meteorolog- 

 ical Office under the superintendence of 

 M. W. Campbell Hepworth, C.B., E.D., 

 Commander E.N.E. London, published by 

 the Eoyal Society. 1913. 4to. 26 p., 1003 

 charts. 



This volume completes such physical results 

 of the British National Antarctic Expedition 

 as were specifically taken under the supervision 

 of the Eoyal Society. It is a monumental 

 work of unusual polar value, and as such 



