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. 



EiiiTOEijL Committee;: S. Newcomb, Mathematics; R. S. Woodward, Mechanics; E. C. Pickehino, 

 Astronomy ; T. C- Mendbnhall, Physics ; E. H. Thdrston, Engineering ; Iea Rkmsen, Chemistry , 

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

 tology ; W. K. Beooks, C. Haet Meebiam, Zoology ; S. H. Scuddee, Entomology ; C. E. 

 Bessey, N. L. Beitton, Botany ; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology ; H. P. 

 BowDiTCH, Physiology ; William H. Welch, Pathology ; 

 J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology. 



Friday, February 20, 1903. 



CONTEXTS: 



The St. Louis Meetings 281 



The Smithsonian Institution 284 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Section H, Anthropology: Dr. Eolaxd B. 

 Dixon 286 



The Washington Meeting of tlie Geological 

 Society of America: Professor J. F. 

 Keiip and Professor A. W. Gbabau 290 



Est era a Antonio Fuertes: Professor R. H. 

 TiuRSTOx 303 



Scientific Books: — 



Reeve on The Tliermodynamics of Heat- 

 engines: Professor R. H. Thurston. 

 Muir on The Story of Alchemy and the Be- 

 ginnings of Chemistry: Dr. Hexry Car- 

 RixGTox Bolton 305 



Scie7itific Journals and Articles 307 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Biological Society of Washington: F. 

 A. Lucas. The Geological Society of 

 Washington: W. C. Mendenhall. The 

 Montana Academy of Sciences, Arts and 

 Letters : J. P. RowE 308 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Srnithson's Remains: Gilbert H. Grosve- 

 NOR. The Destruction of Frogs: Dr. Albert 

 M. Ree.se. The Great Auk: F. A. Lucas. . 311 



Recent Zoopalcontology : — 



An Upper Pliocene Cave; A Neiv Rhinoc- 

 eros from Southern Bavaria; The Basal 

 Eocene Mammalian Fauna, in the Ft. 

 Union Beds of Montana; A Revieiv of the 

 Reptilia of the Trias; A Horned Eocene 

 Ungulate from Egypt: H. P. 312 



Research Funds of the Scientific Alliance of 

 yew York: Dr. X. L. Britton 314 



Fifth International Congress of Applied 

 Chemistry: Dr. H. W. Wiley 31.5 



Scientific Notes and Neirs 317 



University and. Educational JVeus 320 



MSS. intended Tor implication and books, eic. Intendtd 

 for review should he sent to the responsible editor. Pro- 

 fessor . I. MoTCei-n Cnitpll. «(.rriBr.n-on-Hndson. N. V. 



THE ST. LOUIS MEETINGS. 



Though nearly a year is to elapse before 

 the American Association and affiliated 

 bodies will meet in St. Louis, in next win- 

 ter's convocation week, it is time for all 

 who are interested not only in making this 

 meeting a success but in welding the union 

 of popular and technical scientific interests 

 that was begun at the recent Washington 

 meeting, to bestir themselves, that the 

 good start that has already been made may 

 not be lost. 



St. Louis has long enjoyed the reputa- 

 tion of being a hospitable city, in which 

 visitors are sure of good treatment, and 

 it has the distinction of possessing one of 

 the oldest scientific organizations of the 

 country, in its Academy of Science, which 

 was founded by Engelmann and his asso- 

 ciates in 1856, struggled through the agon- 

 ies of a border city in the Civil War with- 

 out a cessation of its activity, and through- 

 out has maintained the high standard with 

 which its scientific publications were 

 started. Its Washington Univei'sity, in- 

 corporated in 1853, through the public 

 spirit of Eliot, which has struggled against 

 a variety of discouraging conditions with- 

 out ever abating the ideals of scholarship 



