SCIENCE 



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



OFFICIAL NOTICES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 



FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



EoiTOBiAL CoMMiTTKB : B. Newcomb, Mathematics ; R. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickkking, 

 AatroDomy ; T. C- Mendbnhall, Physios ; R. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Iea Rbmskn, Chemistry ; 

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

 tology ; W. K. Brooks, C. Hart Merriam, Zoology ; S. H. Souddke, Entomology ; C. E. 

 Bkssey, N. I.. Britton, Botany ; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology ; H, P. 

 BowDiTOB, Physiology; William H. Welch, Pathology; 

 J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology. 



Friday, May 29, 1903. 



CONTENTS. 



Henry Barker Hill: T. W. R 841 



The Status of Public Museums in the United 

 States: Alfred Goldsborough Mayer.... 843 



Montana as a Field for an Academy of Sci- 

 ences, Arts and Letters: Professor Mor- 

 ton J. Elrod 851 



Scientific Books: — 



Hertwig's Manual of Zoology: Professor 

 A. S. Packard. Eucalypts Cultivated in 

 the United States : Dr. Rob't E. C. Stearns 857 



Scientific Journals and A7-ticles 860 



Societies and Academies: — 



The San Francisco Section of the Amer- 

 ican Mathematical Society: Professor G. 

 A. Miller. New York Academy of Sci- 

 ences, Section of Astronomy, Physics and 

 Chemistry: Dr. S. A. Mitchell. Columbia 

 University Geological Journal Club: H. W. 

 Shimer. Anthropological Society of Wash- 

 ington: Dr. Walter Hough 860 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Tropical Marine Laboratory for Research: 



Dr. J. E. Duerden 862 



Shorter Articles: — 



The Physical Basis of Color: Dr. C. A. 

 Chant. Surface Tension, Molecular Forces : 

 Dr. N. Ernest Dorset. The Overspun 

 String: E. H. Hawley. Notes on the 

 Judith River Group: Charles H. Stern- 

 berg. Seeds Buried in the Soil: J. W. T. 

 DuvEL. Some New Generic Names of Mam- 

 mals: Db. T. S. Palmer 864 



Museum Notes : F. A. L 873 



The American Museum of Natural History. . 874 



Scientific Notes and News 877 



University and Educational News 880 



MSS. in tended for publication and books, etc.. intended 

 lor review should be sent to the responsibls editor, Pro- 

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



HENRY BARKER HILL. 



Henky Barker Hiii, professor of chem- 

 istry and director of the Chemical Labo- 

 ratory of Harvard College, died on April 

 6, 1903, in the fifty-fourth year of his age, 

 after a brief but painful illness. His 

 death makes an irreparable gap in the 

 ranks of American scientific men. 



Professor Hill's life was a quiet one — 

 the life of an investigator in a field of sci- 

 entific rather than of public interest. His 

 delicate health for years and his retiring 

 disposition prevented many of his col- 

 leagues from knowing him well; hence his 

 true worth has perhaps not been fully 

 appreciated by those outside the circle of 

 his intimate friends. 



The Reverend Thomas Hill, his father, 

 was at one time president of Antioch Col- 

 lege, and later, from 1862 to 1868, president 

 of Harvard University. In 1845 Thomas 

 Hill married Miss Anne Foster Bellows, 

 and on April 27, 1849, Henry Barker Hill 

 was born. Having spent his later school 

 days in Cambridge, he entered Harvard 

 College in 1865 at the age of sixteen years. 

 Here his unusual versatility was soon rec- 

 ognized by his early companions, who felt 

 that with so many possibilities the choice 

 of a profession must be difficult. His 

 mathematical ability was rare; he pos- 

 sessed a keen and sympathetic taste for 

 music, and his literary and philological in- 



