SCIENCE 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THB 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



'KniTOEiiL CoMMiTTKE : S. Nkwcomb, Matbematioe ; R. S. Woodward, Meohaoioe ; E. C. Pickkrinp, 

 Astronomy ; T. C Mendenhali., Physios ; Ira Remskn, Chemistry ; Charles D. Walcott, 

 Geology ; W. M. Davis, Physiography ; Henry F. Osboen, PaleoDtology ; W. K. 

 Brooks, C. Hart Merriam, Zoology ; S. H. Scudder, Entomology ; C. E. 

 Bessby, N. L. Britton, Botany ; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology ; 

 H. P. Bowditch, Physiology ; William H. Welch, Path- 

 ology ; J. McKkkn Cattell, Psychology. 



Friday, November 6, 1903. 



CONTEXTS: 

 Address of the President of the Section of 

 Education of the British Association for 

 the Advancement of Science: Sir William 

 DE \V. Abney 577 



The Longitude of Honolulu: Dr. John F. 

 Hayfokd 589 



Scientific Books: — 



Bailey's Discussion of Variable Stars in the 

 Cluster Centauri: Professor G. Muller. . 503 



Scientific Journals and Articles. 



eo2 



Societies and Academies: — 



yew York Section of the American Chem- 

 ical Society: H. C. Sherman. Elisha 

 Mitchell Scientific Society: Professor 

 Charles Baskerville ii02 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



A Hitherto Vndescribcd Visual Phe- 

 nomenon: Professor E. B. Titche.ner. . . . lj03 



Shorter Articles: — 



Phototropism under Light-rays of Different 

 Wave-lengths: Professor J. B. Da.ndeno.. ii04 



Scientific Kotcs and Keus 000 



Univcrsily and Educational Xeivs 608 



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

 for review sbould be sent tn tbe respoDslble editor, Pro- 

 feuor J. McKe^n Caitell, GarriBon-on-HudtOD, N. Y. 



ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THB 



SECTION OF EDUCATION OF THE 



BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 



The section over which I have the honor 

 to preside deals with every branch of edu- 

 cation. It is manifest that in an address 

 your president can not deal with all of 

 them, and it remained for me to choose one 

 on which I might remark with advantage. 

 As my official work during the last thirty- 

 three years has been connected with edu- 

 cation in science, I think I can not do 

 better than take as my subject the action 

 that the state has taken in encouraging this 

 form of education, and to show that 

 through such action there has been a de- 

 velopment of scientific instruction amongst 

 the artisan population and in secondary 

 day schools. The development may not . 

 indeed have been to the extent hoped for, 

 but it yet remains that solid progress has 

 been made. 



T have chosen the sub.iect deliberately, as 

 I find that there are very few of those who 

 have the interests of education strongly at 

 heart, or who freely criticize those who 

 have borne the burden of the past, that 

 have any knowledge of the trials and diffi- 

 culties (some of its own creating, but 

 otliers forced on it by public opinion) 

 which the state, as represented by the now 

 defunct Science and Art Department, had 

 to contend with in its unceasing missionary 



