XOVEMBER 20, 1903.] 



SCIENCE. 



665 



A. S. Gale : ' On three types of surfaces of the 

 third order regarded as double surfaces of trans- 

 lation.' . 



L. P. ElSENHART: 'Surface of Bonnet and their 

 transformations.' 



Edward Kasner : ' On partial geodesic repre- 

 sentation.' 



F. X. Cole: 'On the factoring of large num- 

 bers.' 



E. GOURS.A.T: 'A simple proof of a theorem in 

 calculus of variations (extract from a letter to 

 W. F. Osgood).' , 



Burke Smith : ' On the deformation of surfaces 

 whose parametric lines form a conjugate system.' 



G. A. Miu£R : ' On the number of sets of con- 

 jugate subgroups.' 



Elwah Swift: 'On the condition that a point 

 transformation of the plane be a projective trans- 

 formation.' 



Ida M. Schottenfels : ' On the simple groups 

 of order 8!/2 (preliminary communication).' 



Ida M. ScnoTTENFELS : ' The necessary condition 

 that two linear homogeneous differential equations 

 shall have common integrals.' 



The American Physical Society was also 

 in session at Columbia University on the same 

 day. The members of the two societies 

 lunched together at the university restaurant. 

 In the evening the members of the Mathe- 

 matical Society held an informal dinner. 



The annual meeting of the American Math- 

 ematical Society will be held at Columbia 

 TTniversity, December 28-29. The Chicago 

 section of the society will meet, in conjunction 

 with Section A of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, at St. Louis, 

 December 31-January 1. F. N. Cole, 



Secretary. 



DISCUSSION AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



THE ST. LOUIS CONGRESS OF ARTS AND SCIENCE. 



To THE Editor op Science: In the number 

 of Science for August 28, I occupied consid- 

 erable space in raising certain questions sug- 

 gested by Dr. Miinsterberg's article on the St. 

 Louis Congress in the May number of the 

 Atlantic Monthly. I objected 



1. To Dr. Miinsterberg's basing the work- 

 ing classification and grouping of the schedule 

 or program of that Congress upon a scheme of 

 philosophical methodology (of which he him- 

 self happened to be the author), and 



2. To the representation made in the arti- 

 cle that the Committee on the Congress had 

 given his methodology an official sanction and 

 endorsement by arranging a program upon its 

 basis. 



In what purports to be a reply in Science 

 for October 30, Dr. Miinsterberg elaborately 

 ignores the objection I raised and as elabor- 

 ately attributes and refutes a position which 

 I neither took nor even suggested. The ob- 

 jection which he attributes to me is upon its 

 face either a matter of minor importance or 

 else is absurd. This is an objection to the 

 actual working classification and grouping 

 adopted for the conduct of the Congress. It 

 does not require two pages of Science to point 

 out that such an objection is trivial if taken 

 to mean an objection to just this or that num- 

 ber and set of divisions, departments and sec- 

 tions; and absurd if taken to mean objection 

 to any classification and grouping whatsoever. 

 Nor does it require a careful reading of my 

 Science article to discover that I never enter- 

 tained such objections. 



While I regret that Dr. Miinsterberg has 

 raised an irrelevant issue, instead of dis- 

 cussing the matter on its merits, I yet take 

 one consolation from his article. His ignor- 

 ing the real point of my objection suggests 

 that as a matter of fact the philosophical 

 methodology set forth in such a jjrominent 

 way in the May Atlantic has ceased to have 

 (if it ever had) any bearing upon the actual 

 conduct of the Congress; and that what now 

 exists is just a certain working classification, 

 whose e.xaet merits, as I have just indicated, are 

 a matter of detail and not of principle. In that 

 case, while some explanation would seem to be 

 due the editor and readers of the Atlantic 

 Monthly, the scientific men of the country 

 may rest reasonably content. 



John Dewey. 



The U.viVEHSiTY of Chic.\co. 



RECENT ZOOPALEONTOLOOY. 



ADDITIONAL DISCOVERIES IN EGYPT. 



Cetacea. — Dr. E. Stromer describes a skull 

 and lower jaw of a new species of Zeuglodon, 

 Z, Osiris, from the Middle Eocene of Egypt, 



