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 CoMMiTTKK : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; R. S. Woodward, Meohanios ; E. C. Pickering, 

 Astronomy ; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics ; K. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Iea Remsen, Chemistry ; 

 Chaelks D. Walcott, Geology ; W. M. Davis, Physiography ; Hknby F. Osboen, Paleon- 

 tology ; W. K. Brooks, C. Hart Mbeeiam, Zoology ; S. H. Scuddee, Entomology ; C. E. 

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

 BowDlTCH, Physiology ; William H. Welch, Pathology ; 

 J. McKeen Cattkll, Psychology. 



Friday, Pebeuary 27, 1903. 



CONTENTS: 



The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society 

 of America: Dr. W. S. Eichelberger. . . . 321 



The Association of American Anatomists: 

 Professor G. Carl Huber 335 



The Association of Economic Entomologists: 

 A. L. QUAINTANCE 337 



The Botanical Society of America: Dr. D. T. 

 MacDougal 338 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 The Election of Fellous 339 



Scientific Books: — 



Tlie Quantitative Classification of Igneous 

 Bocks: Professor Frank D. Adams. 

 Marchand Ueber das Hirngeicicht des 

 Menschen: E. A. S 341 



Scientific Journals and Articles 345 



Societies and Academies : — 



The Philosophical Society of Washington: 

 Charles K. Wead. Tlie Torrey Botanical 

 Club: F. S. Earle. The American Botan- 

 ical Club: F. A. S. The Berzelius Chem- 

 ical Society : J. S. Gates. Onondaga Acad- 

 emy of Science: Professor T. C. Hopkins. 346 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Fall of Bodies: Professor A. Hall. 

 Mountain Spectre near Boulder, Colorado: 

 Professor N. M. Fenneman. Signs of the 

 Glacial Period in Japan: Professor G. 

 Frederick Wright 349 



Sliorter Articles: — 



Types of Pre-Linnwan Genera: 0. F. Cook. 

 A Grant from the Carnegie Institution for 

 Paleobotany : G. R. Wieland 350 



Current Notes on Meteorology: — 



Scientific Investigations by Weatlier Bureau 

 Men; Cycles of Precipitation in the United 

 States: Professor R. DeC. Ward 353 



Current Notes on Physiography : — 



Abandoned Channels of the Monongahela; 

 La Cdte d'Or; Canons of the Euphrates: 

 Professor W. M. Davis 354 



Recent Zoopaleontology : — 



Age of the Typical Judith River Beds: 

 Professor Henry F. Osborn 356 



A New Division of the United States Geolog- 

 ical Survey 357 



Scientific Notes and News 357 



University and Educational News 360 



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

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

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



TBE ASTRONOMICAL AND A8TR0PBY8ICAL 

 SOCIETY OF AMERICA. 



The second winter meeting of this society 

 was held in Washington, D. C, during con- 

 vocation week, in affiliation with the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. 



On Monday, December 29, at 4 p.m., over 

 two hundred persons assembled in the lec- 

 ture room on the first floor of the Law 

 Building of the Columbian University to 

 hear the address of the president of the 

 society. Professor Simon Newcomb. This 

 address has already appeared in Science. 



Three sessions of the society for the 

 reading of papers and transaction of busi- 

 ness were held in the Assembly Hall of the 

 Cosmos Club, Tuesday, Wednesday and 

 Thursday afternoons, the average attend- 

 ance being about seventy-five. 



Tuesday evening the annual dinner was 

 given at Maison Rancher. Among the 

 forty-three present were a number of ladies 

 and, as guests. His Excellency, the Im- 



