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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 Committkk : S. Nswcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. Woodwaed, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickekikg 

 Astronomy ; T. C- Mkndbnhall, Physics ; R. H. Thueston, Engineering ; Iea Eemsen, Chemistry ; 

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

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

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

 BowDiTCH, Physiology ; William H. Welch, Pathology ; 

 J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology. 



Friday, June 26, 1903. modern views on matter.- tee real- 



— IZATION OF A DREAM.* 



CONTENTS: ^'^^ nearly a century men who devote 



Modern Vieu-s on Matter: The Realisation of themselves to science have been dreaming 



a Dream : Sir William Crookes 993 "^ atoms, molecules, ultramundane par- 



Scientific Books:— tides, and Speculating as to the origin of 



Index Animalium: Dr. Wm. H. Dall. matter; and now to-day they have got so 



Muir and Ritchie's Manual of Bacteriology : far as to admit the possibility of resolving 



Dr. Joseph McFarlai^d 1003 ^i^g chemical elements into simpler forms' 



Societies and Acaderaies:- ^f ^^^^^er, or even of refining them alto- 



Academy of Science of St. Louis: Pro- ,, . , , ., . 



FEseoR William Trelease. The Oeolog- 8'*^^^^^^ ^way mto ethereal Vibrations or 



ical Society of Washington: Dr. W. C. electrical energy. 



Mendenhall 1007 This dream has been essentially a British 



Discussion and Correspondence : — • dream, and we have become speculative 



The Proposed Biological Laboratory at the and imaginative to an audacious extent, 



Tortiigas: Professor P. H. Rolfs, J. i 4. u i • i x j? i 



FRED. Clarke. 'Mount Pelee': Dr. Ed- ^^"'°'.* ^^^^^^ °^^ character of a purely 



MUND Otis Hovet 1008 Practical nation. The notion of impene- 



Shorter Articles:— trable mysteries has been dismissed. A 



On the Limits of Unaided Vision: Heber mystery is a thing to be solved— 'and man 



D. Cdetis. a Modification in Measuring alone can master the impossible.' There 



Cranial Capacity: Dr. Aljss Hrdlicka. has been a vivid new start. Our phys- 



New Departures in the ConciUum Bib- ^^^^^^ j^ave remodeled their views as to the 



liographicum : Dr. Herbert Haviland x-j. j.- n x^ i , ., 



„„ constitution ot matter and as to the eom- 



Field 1010 



D v^ c ..T. r 1x1. , ■ 7 T, , ^ plexity if not the actual decomposability 



Report of the Ichthyologioal Research Com- a i ■ i^ j 



niittee 1016 ^ chemical elements. To show how 



Opportunity for Geological Research in Hon- ^^^ "^^ have been propelled on the strange 



duras 1018 new road, how dazzling are the wonders 



The New York College of Forestry 1018 that waylay the researcher, we have but 



Scientifiic Notes and Neus 1019 to recall — matter in a fourth state, the 



University and Educational News 1024 genesis of the elements, the dissociation of 



njiao ir>t=„/io.i r„, „„v,ii„„*- J ., , . - . ^ J * ^n address delivered before the Congress of 



Mbb. mtenaed for publication and books, etc., intended ° 



<or review should be sent to the responsible editor, Pro- Applied Chemistry at Berlin, June 5, 1903, from 



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



