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between this bearing aud the true azimuth of 

 the body, which is deduced simultaneously 

 with its altitude, will give at once the total 

 error of the compass for the course upon 

 which the ship heads at the time when the 

 observation is made. 



Mr. J. F. Hayford rejjorted on ' The Longi- 

 tude of Honolulu; Various Determinations 

 from 1555 to 1903.' The final telegraphic 

 result is.lQii 31i» 27^^.24.06. The errorsi 

 of the many older determinations were pointed 

 out and discussed. 



President Gore then read a paper on ' The 

 Political Parties and Policies of Germany ' — 

 a study during the past summer at the time 

 of the elections. He pointed out the consti- 

 tutional relations between the government and 

 the Eeichstag and gave an account of the four 

 political groups — Conservatives, Liberals, Par- 

 ticularists and Social Democrats — with their 

 seventeen subdivisions, and the principal fea- 

 tures of their platforms. Major Dutton in 

 discussing the paper compared the parliamen- 

 tary bodies of various lands. 



The 572d meeting was held October 24, 

 1903. Professor Simon ISTewcomb. spoke on 

 ' The Coming International Congress of Sci- 

 ence and Art at St. Louis, September 19 to 

 25, 1904.' He referred to the dissatisfaction 

 that had followed most former congresses and 

 the desire to provide something different for 

 St. Louis. Two features of the plan decided 

 on are noteworthy: (1) The unity of science 

 is to be emphasized by a single congress, 

 though meeting in as many sections as may 

 be necessary. (2) The principal speakers are 

 to be invited to present papers on specific 

 assigned subjects. This rendered necessary a 

 grouping in advance of the subjects that might 

 properly come before the congress. The prac- 

 tical grouping adopted by the administrative 

 committee, consisting of Professors ISTewcomb, 

 Miinsterberg and Small, was published in the 

 May Atlantic. 



During the past summer that committee has 

 been visiting the learned men of Europe to 

 secure participants in this congress; a con- 

 siderable number of prominent scholars has 

 been secured, each representing his special 

 field. 



President Gore, in the following discussion, 

 poiutc'd out that a congress was a proper 

 adjunct to an exposition, for it represented 

 the theoretical side of those activities whoso 

 practical side was represented by the exhibits. 



Professor P. W. Clarke then spoke on ' The 

 Dalton Centenary at Manchester ' in com- 

 memoration of the announcement of the 

 atomic theory, October 21, 1803. The speaker 

 had delivered the memorial address, and here 

 summarized it, pointing out the significance 

 of Dalton's discovery. (The address was pub- 

 lished in Science, October 23.) Sundry in- 

 cidents of the festival were spoken of, and the 

 fact noted that the statues in the fine town 

 hall were not those of soldiers, but of scien- 

 tific men — Dalton and Joule. 



Professor Clarke added some account of the 

 International Congress of Applied Chemistry 

 at Berlin, and of his visits to various fine new 

 laboratories; though he found none finer than 

 some in this country. 



President Gore told of his attendance at .a 

 meeting of the Berlin Academy of Sciences 

 when memorial addresses were made on Vir- 

 chow, and of the curious coincidence that he 

 had also been present when Du Bois Reymond 

 introduced the newly elected Virehow to the 

 society. Charles K. Wead, 



Secretary. 



NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIEXCi;, 

 SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOCiY AND PSYCHOLOGY. 



The regular meeting of the section was held 

 October 20, in New Haven, Conn., in con- 

 junction with the New York Branch of the 

 American Psychological Association and the 

 Philosophical Club of Yale University. The 

 following papers were presented: 



Localization of Brain Function: Dr. S. I. 



Pranz, of Dartmouth Medical College. 



Dr. Pranz presented an account of an at- 

 tempt to determine by physiological experi- 

 ments whether or not the so-called motor areas 

 are also sensory in function. Cats were 

 used in the investigation, and the results in- 

 dicate that in these animals the motor cortex 

 has also certain sensory functions. It was 

 not determined with what sensory processes 



