SCIENCE 



« WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, PUBLISHING THK 



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Kditorial Committkk : S. Nkwcomb, Mathematios ; R. S. Woodward, Meohanioe ; E. C. Pickkkinp, 



Astronomy ; T. C Mkndknhai:.!,, Physios ; Iea Remsen, Chemistry ; Chablbs D. Walcott, 



Geology ; W. M. Davis, Physiography ; Henby F. Osbobn, Paleontology ; W. K. 



Bbooes, C. Habt Mkbeiam, Zoology ; S. H. Scdddeb, Entomology ; C. E. 



BEaoEY, N. L. Bbitton, Botany ; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology ; 



H. P. BowDiTCH, Physiology ; William H. Welch, 



Pathology ; J. McKeen Cattbll, Psychology. 



Friday, Notombek 13. 1903. Robert hesry thvrston. 



z====^:^=^^==^== On October 25, 1903. Robert II. Thurs- 



coy TESTS: tou, director of the Sibley College of Cor- 



Robcrt Henry Thurston 009 nell Universit}' and one of the editors of this 



Simultaneous Solur and Terrestrial Changes : JOUKNAL, was Stricken down with heart fail- 



SiK XoKMAN LocKYER till urB whilc awaitiug in his library the coming 



„, , . . , of a few friends who had been invited to a 



The German Anthropological Association: . . . , • , 



Dr. George Grant MacCurdy 0J8 ^l'""*^!" celebrating his sixty- fourth birth- 

 day. The news of his sudden death came 



Scientific Books: — i i. i » ii • • a 



' as a great shock to the engineering protes- 



Small's Flora of the Southeastern United ,, , , ., tt -^ i Oi ^ t--i 



„, , „ ,, ,, „, . , rr I J- sion throughout the United States, while 



states: ¥. V. Coville. Plates Ueber die " ' 



Bcdeutung des Dancinische Selectionsprin- ^o Cornell University the loss is one that 



cips: J. p. McM 627 seems irreparable for several years to come. 



„.,.,, , . , ^ , ,..m Robert H. Thurston was born in Provi- 



Scientific Journals and Articles b29 



dence, R. I., and was graduated from the 



Soc.ei.es and Academies:- engineering course of Brown University in 



The Torrey Botanical Club: Dr. F. S. Earle. jggg ^j^j^ ^^^ ^Iggj.^^ ^f g g j^ jgg^^ ^^ 



Section of Geology and Mineralogy of the , . , . . , 



,, T7 I . J V c. ■ T^ r became an assistant engineer in the navy 



Xeio York Academy of Sciences: Dr. Ed- ^ •' 



MUXD Otis Hovey ti30 ^^^ served throughout the civil war, finally 



being promoted to the position of chief 



Discussion and Correspondence: — . - . , _ .,_„_ 



engineer of one of the monitors. In 1865 



Antedated Publications: Db. J. A. Allen. , ... . , ^^ „ 



The 27-day Period in Auroras and its Con- ^^ ^^'^^ appointed an instructor in the U. S. 



nection tcith Sunspots: Henry Helm Clay- Naval Academy at Annapolis, leaving that 



TON (i:Jl position in 1871 to accept the professorship 



Shorter Articles:— °^ mechanical engineering in the Stevens 



Mont PeU from May to October, 1903: Institute of Technology. This chair he 



Dr. Edmund Otis Hovey. 6.33 held until 188.5 when he was called to the 



„„ „ , ., . , , directorship of the Sibley College of Me- 



1 he Huxley Memorial Lecture 634 , . . ■ . ,". , 



ehanic Arts, a position which he filled until 



Scientific Sotcs and \eics 636 the day of his death. 



Vniversity and Educational Xeics 640 The work of Professor Thurston at 



Stevens Institute and at Cornell Univer- 



MSS. Intended ror pablicacion and books, etc.. Intended ., , f i -^ i ■ 



for review should be sent to the responsible editor. Pro- S'^>' ^^'^^ "'"^t Successful, it being character- 



fewor I. Mck-e3n catteii, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. jzcd by great energy and cxccutivc ability. 



