SCIENCE 
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: S. NEWcomsB, Mathematics; R. S. WooDwWARD, Mechanics; E. C. PICKERING 
Astronomy; T. C. MENDENHALL, Physics; R. H. THURSTON, Engineering; IRA ReEMSEN, Chemistry; 
J. LE Conte, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; O. C. Marsu, Paleontology; W. K. Brooks, 
C. Hart MERRIAM, Zoology; S. H. ScuDDER, Entomology; C. E. Bessy, N. L. BRITTON, 
Botany; Henry F. Osporn, General Biology; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology; 
H. P. BownpitcH, Physiology; J. S. BrLtines, Hygiene; J. McCKEEN CATTELL, 
Psychology; DANIEL G. BRINTON, J. W. POWELL, Anthropology. 
Fripay, Ocroser 22, 1897. 
CONTENTS: 
Address of the President to the Physiological Section 
of the British Association: MICHAEL FostER...601 
‘Chemistry at the British Association: W. W. RAN- 
PANS Ewenesessacccctecdecsacesesisccsaseecscensats sdecanccodacd 614 
‘Geography at the British Association: RICHARD E. 
OD GH ereoes'scac tonne aoa esecansiacecatecs censnaeccesvees o: 616 
Ts the Denver Formation Lacustrine or Fluviatile 2 
AWiew View DD AWS inecaccooncesecuectecesrserenastescccssteceas 619 
The Grant Sarcophagus: FERDINAND G. WIECH- 
WVICASNIN asvinn cmcranelioasowiesie alse sconessinesccecersressinesccnccre 621 
Botanical Notes :— 
Botanical Activtiyin Japan; A Broader Study of 
Local Floras: CHARLES EH, BESSEY.........00ce00008 622 
Notes on Inorganic Chemistry: J. L. H....... psnecaed 623 
Scientific Notes and News :— 
The Dedication of the Yerkes Astronomical Obser- 
vatory ; The Laboratories of the British Govern- 
ment ; American Mathematical Society ; General...624 
University and Educational News. ..........0.-scse0eseees 631 
Discussion and Correspondence :— 2 
Resignation of the Director of the Lick Observatory : 
EDWARD 8. HoLpEN. The Boston Plans for a 
New York Botanical Garden: N.Y. Source of 
the Famous Thetford Limburgite: C. H. RicH- 
ARDSON. Wore Dictionary Zoology: T. D. A. 
COCKERELL. Lantern Transparencies: A. E. 
DOLBEAR. Dangersof Formalin: W.H. DALL...632 
Scientific Literature :-— 
Parish on Hallucinations and Illusions: JOSEPH 
JASTROW. WMuir’s Manual of Bacteriology: 'T. 
New Books. 
MSS. intended for publication and books, ete., intended 
for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Prof. J. 
McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y, 
ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT TO THE 
PHYSIOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE 
BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 
WE who have come from the little island 
on the other side of the great waters to take 
part in this important gathering of the 
British Association have of late been much 
exercised in retrospection. We have been 
looking back on the sixty years’ reign of our 
beloved Sovereign, and dwelling on what 
has happened during her gracious rule. We 
have, perhaps, done little in calling to mind 
the wrongs, the mistakes and the failures 
of the Victorian era; but our minds and 
our mouths have been full of its achieve- 
ments and its progress; and each of us, of 
himself or through another, has been busy 
in bringing back to the present the events 
of more than half a century of the past. It 
was while I, with others, was in this retro- 
spective mood that the duty of preparing 
some few words to say to you to-day seemed 
suddenly to change from an impalpable 
cloud in the far distance to a heavy burden 
pressing directly on the back ; and in choos- 
ing something to say I have succumbed to 
the dominant influence. Before putting 
pen to paper, however, I recovered suffi- 
ciently to resist the temptation to add one 
more to the many reviews which have ap- 
peared of the progress of physiology during 
the Victorian era. I also rejected the idea 
of doing that for which I find precedents in 
past presidential addresses—namely, of at- 
