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. 



Editorial Committee: S. Nbwcomb, Mathematics; R. S. Woodwaed, Meohanios ; E. C. Pickering, 

 Astronomy ; T. C Msndknhall, Physics ; K. H. Thueston, Engineering ; Iea Eemsen, Chemistry ; 

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

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

 Bbssey, N. L. Beitton, Botany ; C. S. MiiiOT, Embryology, Histology ; H. P. 

 BowDiTCH, Physiology ; William H. Welch, Pathology ; 

 J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology. 



Friday, May 22, 1903. 



CONTENTS. 



The Duties and Responsibilities of Trustees 

 of Puilic Medical Institutions : Dr. W. W. 

 Keen 801 



The New Medical Buildings of the University 

 of Toronto : Professok A. B. Maoalltjm . . 813 



8cientifi,G Books: — 



Minot's Text-hook of Embryology: Peo- 

 FESSOE Frank R. Lillie. Hann's Climat- 

 ology : H. H. Clayton 817 



Scientific Journals and Articles 820 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Anthropological Society of Washing- 

 ton: Walter Hough. The American 

 Mathematical Society: Professor F. N. 

 Cole 820 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Proposed Biological Laboratory at the 

 Tortugas: Professor C. C. Nutting, Pro- 

 fessor Wm. E. Ritter, President David 

 Starr Jordan 823 



Shorter Articles: — 



Some Little-known Basket Materials: Dr. 

 C. Hart Merriam. A Note on Phryno- 

 soma: Professor Charles L. Edwards. 

 A Note on Nomenclature: A. S. Hitch- 

 cock. Remains of Elephants in Wyoming : 

 Professor Wilbur C. Knight 826 



Current Notes on Meteorology : — 



Snow Crystals; Structure of Cyclones: 

 Professor R. DeC. Ward 829 



Botanical Notes: — 



A Neto Classification of Plants; More Ma- 

 rine Botany; Aids to the Study of the 

 Fungi : Professor Charles E. Bessey .... 829 



Cornell Work for Agriculture : Professor R. 



H. Thurston 831 



The International Geodetic Association: Wll- 



LIAM Eimbeck 832 



The British Antarctic Expedition 833 



The Bermuda Biological Station 834 



The Lake Laboratory of the Ohio State Uni- 

 versity 834 



Committee on the Purity of Chemicals 835 



Typhoid Fever at Palo Alto and Stanford 



University 835 



Scientific Notes and News 836 



University and Educational News 840 



MSS. intended for publication and booka, etc., intended 

 tor review should be sent to the responsible editor, Pic- 

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



THE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF 



TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC MEDICAL 



INSTITUTIONS* 



The value of occasional and stated gath- 

 erings of the principal leaders of medical 

 thought in the various special departments 

 is acknowledged by all. Certainly those 

 who have attended this congress, now held 

 for the sixth time, have felt its broadening 

 influence. We are all apt to become nar- 

 row when we are devoted heart and soul 

 to one specialty, be it medicine, surgery, 

 physiology, ophthalmology or any other. 

 When we meet nearly all the more prom- 

 inent men in cognate interrelated branches 

 of medicine in Washington every third 

 year, we are sure to find that there are as 

 interesting and as important questions in 

 other specialties as there are in our own; 

 and, moreover, we are sure to find that 

 there are men of as acute intelligence, wide 

 reading and original thought in other than 



* The presidential address at the sixth congress 

 of American Physicians and Surgeons, Washing- 

 ton, May 12, 1903. 



