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SCIENCE. 



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clination of the originally level shores of 

 these lakes. 



The latest completed geologic period, when 

 an ice sheet covered the northern half of our 

 continent, is being very satisfactorily investi- 

 gated, bpth in the United States and Canada. 

 As in an earlier monograph of this series, on 

 the glacial Lake Agassiz, it will be an ad- 

 vantage to the geological surveys of each 

 country that these detailed explorations about 

 the Great Lakes be extended to give such full 

 description and discussion of the ancient 

 larger lake areas, with their shore lines and 

 relations to the waning ice sheet, on both 

 Bides of the international boundary. 



Wareen Upham. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND ARTICLES. 



Bird Lore for November-December contains 

 articles ' On Journal Keeping,' by Ernest 

 Thompson Seton; 'Flamingoes' Nests,' illus- 

 trated, by Frank M. Chapman ; ' The Weapons 

 of Birds,' by F. A. Lucas ; and ' Whiskey John 

 in Colorado,' by E. E. Warren. The seventh 

 paper on 'How to Name the Birds' is de- 

 voted to the Sylviidse and Turdidse and the 

 first paper on ' How to Study Birds ' are both 

 by Frank M. Chapman. There is the first 

 of a series of portraits of Bird Lore's advisory 

 councilors depicting Messrs. William Butcher, 

 T. Gilbert Pearson, Lynds Jones and C. W. 

 Nelson, and the usual notes, reviews and re- 

 ports of societies. 



The Museums Journal of Great Britain for 

 November has an article on museum matters 

 presented at the Belfast meeting of the Brit- 

 ish Association, and description of a dust- 

 proof air inlet for museum cases, a feature 

 entirely too much neglected in the construc- 

 tion of cases. F. A. Bather discusses 

 'Names on the Labels in Public Galleries,' 

 in which he touches on the difficulties of pro- 

 viding so-called common names for objects 

 and intimates that scientific names are much 

 more generally understood than is often sup- 

 posed. This article should be widely read. 

 There is an interesting series of notes con- 

 cerning museums in various parts of the 

 world. 



The American Museum Journal for De- 

 cember gives a summarized account of the 

 proceedings of the Thirteenth International 

 Congress of Americanists, a review of the 

 recent work of the museum, and a list of 

 the December lectures. The number con- 

 tains the index for Volume II. 



The Plant World for October contains 

 ' Extracts from the Note Book of a Naturalist 

 on the Island of Guam,' by W. E. SafEord; 

 ' A Study of the Island Flora of the Missis- 

 sippi River near Sabula, Iowa,' by T. J. and 

 M. F. L. Fitzpatrick, and the second article 

 on the ' Origin of Plant Names,' by Grace 

 S. Niles. Among the shorter articles are 

 the official announcements of the Wild Flower 

 Preservation Society. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON. 



The 558th regular meeting was held No- 

 vember 22, 1902. 



Dr. H. Carrington Bolton presented a paper 

 on ' Science and Art under Rudolph II., 1570- 

 1612,' narrating many of his experiences with 

 the astrologers and charlatans that he patron- 

 ized so liberally, and pointing out the im- 

 portant results that followed his support of 

 Tycho Brahe and Kepler. 



Dr. A. F. A. King read 'Further Remarks 

 on Sunlight, Malaria and Scoto-therapy,' in 

 which he reviewed his former paper (see 

 Science, December 27, 1901, p. 1007), and in 

 support of the blue fluorescence of quinine 

 being its curative property, cited the facts 

 that esculin and fraxin were also fluorescent 

 and curative like quinine. The curative 

 power of iodine was due to its producing the 

 violet iodide of starch in the stomach. 



Dr. King recommended blue- or violet-col- 

 ored clothing for armies in malarious regions, 

 and purple tents instead of the white canvas 

 now used. He suggested several experiments 

 in scoto-therapy — keeping some patients in 

 the dark or in rooms with purple or indigo 

 window glass, and exposing others, nude, to 

 brilliant sunshine — which were inexpensive 

 and easily accomplished, and which, he hoped, 

 those having opportunities would try, in order 



