CIENCE 
EDITORIAL CommitrrEe: §. NEwcoms, Mathematics; R. S. WooDWARD, Mechanics; E. C. PICKERING, 
Astronomy; T. C. MENDENHALL, Physics; R. H. THURSTON, Engineering; IRA REMSEN, Chemistry; 
_ J. LE ContE, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; O. C. MARsH, Paleontology; W. K. 
Brooks, C. HART MERRIAM, Zoology; S. H. ScuDDER, Entomology; N. L. BRITTON, 
Botany; HENRY F. OsBoRN, General Biology; H. P. Bowpitcu, Physiology; 
J. 8. BILLINGS, Hygiene ; J. MCKEEN CATTELL, Psychology ; 
DANIEL G. BRINTON, J. W. POWELL, Anthropology. 
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1897. 
CONTENTS: 
The Toronto Meeting of the British Association........ 333 
The American Association for the Advancement of 
Science :-— 
Long Range Temperature and Pressure Variables in 
PPHYSICS » | CARTAN BAR US eeeee ter cnceccorecescectcetsaes 338 
The American Mathematical Society: F. N. CouE..356 
Current Notes on Physiography :— 
Artesian Wells of Iowa: Forests and Deserts of 
Arizona ; Transverse Valleys on the Jura; Sub- 
oceanic Changes: W. M. DAVIS........--..csseseeee 357 
Current Notes on Anthropology :— 
Stone Implements from the Potomac District ; Eth- 
nography of the Calchaquis: D. G. BRINTON ....359 
Notes on Inorganic Chemistry : 
Scientific Notes and News :— 
The International Medical Congress ; The Seal Fish- 
erties; The Missouri Geological Survey ; General...361 
University and Educational News.......0..ssscsesseseeess 368 
Discussion and Correspondence :— 
The Present Evolution of Man: G. ARCHDALL 
REID. Amphibia or Batrachia: G. BAUR. The 
Source of Mentencephalon and other Latin Names 
for the Segments of the Brain: BuRTG. WILDER. 
Andrée’s North Pole Balloon Voyage: H.A. HAZEN.368 
Scientific Literature :— 
Storer’s Agriculture in Some of its Relations with 
Chemistry: EDWARD B. VOORHEES. Santayana 
on the Sense of Beauty: C. Lu B......1...ceeceeceeees 374 
MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended 
for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Prof. J. 
McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 
THE TORONTO MEETING OF THE BRITISH 
ASSOCIATION. 
Tux British Association decided to meet 
in Montreal in 1884, with some hesitation, 
but after the great success of that meeting 
an invitation presented at Oxford in 1894, 
urging the Association to meet at Toronto 
in 1897, was accepted by the general com- 
mittee with unanimity. Elaborate arrange- 
ments were made by the Dominion, by 
the City of Toronto and by the University, 
for the reception of the Association, and 
steamship, railway and cable companies 
united to offer unusual facilities to visitors. 
The chairman of the local committee, Pro- 
fessor Macallum, was especially self sacri- 
ficing in devoting himself for more than a 
year to the work of arrangement. A visit 
of the leaders of British science to Canada 
is an event of no common importance for 
the Dominion, and the enthusiasm was this 
year intensified bya United States tariff 
law and a British Jubilee. 
The members and associates in attend- 
ance at Toronto numbered somewhat over 
1,300, about 400 fewer than at the Montreal 
meeting. Science has already published 
an article by Professor Macallum giving a 
list of the more distinguished British and 
Continental men of science who expected to 
attend, and with a few exceptions, such as 
Lord Rayleigh, they were present. Men of 
science from the United States were well 
represented. The attendance from Great 
Britain, the Continent, Canada and the 
United States can best be indicated by 
giving the officers and committees of the 
various sections, which were as follows: 
