SCIENCE 



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

 OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 

 , FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



Editoeial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; K. S. Woodwaed, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickeeing, 

 Astronomy ; T. C Mbndenhall, Physics ; R. H. Thueston, Engineering ; Iea Remsen, Chemistry ; 

 Chaeles D. Walcott, Geology ; "W. M. Davis, Physiography ; Heney F. Osboen, Paleon- 

 tology ; W. K. Beooks, C. Haet Mbeeiam, Zoology ; S. H. Scdddke, Entomology ; C. E. 

 Bessky, N. L. Beitton, Botany ; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology ; H. P. Bow- 

 ditch, Physiology ; J. S. Billings, Hygiene ; William H. Welch, 

 Pathology ; J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology. 



Friday, January 30, 1903. 



GO'NTE-NT: 



Carnegie Institution of Washington 161 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section B, Physics: Professor Dayton C. 



MiLLEB 170 



Meeting of the American Physical Society: 

 Ernest Mebbitt 180 



Scientific Books: — 



Blatchley's A Nature Wooing at Ormond 



hy the Sea: Professor C. H. Hitchcock.. 184 



Scientific Journals and Articles 185 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Entomological Society of Washington: 

 EoLLA P. CtiREiE. The Geological Society 

 of Washington: Alfred H. Brooks. The 

 New York Academy of Sciences: Section of 

 Anthropology and Psychology: Professor 

 James E. Lough. The Academy of Science 

 of St. Louis: Professor William Trelease. 

 The Toronto Astronomical Society: J. R. 

 Collins 185 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Guesses on the Relative Weights of Bills 

 ami Coins : Professor E. E. Slosson. The 

 Publication of Rejected Names: Professor 

 T. D. A. CocKERELL. The Iroquois Book of 

 Rites : Dr. W. M. Beatjchamp 189 



Shorter Articles: — 



The Tortugas, Florida, as a Station for Re- 

 search in Biology: Dr. Alfred Golds- 

 BOBOUGH Mayer. Egg-laying in Gonio- 

 nemus: L. Mubbach. Miley's Process of 

 Color Photography : Professor Jas. Lewis 

 Howe 190 



Current Notes on Physiography : — 



Physiographic Divisions of Kansas; The 

 Alps in the Ice Age; Glaciers as Conserva- 

 tive Agents: Professor W. M. Davis.... 193 



The Missouri Botanical Garden 195 



Scientific Notes and News 196 



University and Educational News 200 



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

 for review ehould be sent to the responsible editor, Pro- 

 fessor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON.* 

 MEETING OF INCORPORATORS OP THE CARNE- 

 GIE INSTITUTION OP WASHINGTON. 



The meeting of the Incorporators of the 

 Carnegie Institution was held at the office 

 of the Secretary of State, Washington, D. 

 C, January 4, 1902, at 10 o'clock a.m. 



Presetit: Hon. John Hay, Secretary of 

 State, Justice Edward D. White, Dr. 

 Daniel C. Gilman, Dr. John S. Billings, 

 Hon. Carroll D. Wright and Dr. Charles D. 

 Walcott. Mr. Hay was chosen chairman 

 of the meeting and Mr. Walcott secretary. 



On receipt of notice of the filing of 

 the Articles of Incorporation, Mr. White 

 moved that the incorporators proceed to 

 ballot for trustees. This was done, and 

 the following persons were unanimously 

 elected : 



Ea; Officio. The President of the United States; 

 the President of the Senate; the Speaker of the 

 House of Representatives; the Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution; the President of the 

 National Academy of Sciences. 



Grover Cleveland, New Jersey; John S. Billings, 

 New York; William N. Frew, Pennsylvania; Ly- 

 man J. Gage, Illinois; Daniel C. Gilman, Mary- 

 land; John Hay, District of Columbia; Abram S. 

 Hewitt, New Jersey; Henry L. Higginson, Massa- 

 chusetts ; Henry Hitchcock, Missouri ; Charles L. 

 Hutchinson, Illinois; William Lindsay, Kentucky; 

 Seth Low, New York; Wayne MacVeagh, Pennsyl- 

 vania; D. O. Mills, New York; S. Weir Mitchell, 

 Pennsylvania; William W. Morrow, California; 



* Abstracts from the Year Book, No. 1, 1902. 



