SCIENCE 



Editoeial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. Woodwaed, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickeeing, 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics; E. H. Thukston, Engineering; Iea Eemsen, Chemistry; 



J. Le Conte, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; O. C. Maesh, Paleontology; W. K. 



Beooks, C. Haet Meeeiam, Zoology; S. H. Scuddee, Entomology; N. L. Beittok, 



Botany; Heney F. Osboen, General Biology; H. P. Bowditch, Physiology; 



J. S. Billings, Hygiene ; J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology ; 



Daniel G. Beinton, J. "W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Feiday, Mat 28, 1897. 



CONTENTS: 



Adaptation in PalJiological Processes: William 

 H. Welch 813 



TIte Naples Zoological Station: S. E. Meek 832 



Zoological Society of London 834 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 

 Primitive Symholic Decoration; 3Ian's Speech to 

 Brutes: D. G. Beinton 835 



Astrophysical Notes : E. B. F 836 



Current Notes on STeteorology : — 

 Recent Articles on Kite-flying; Deforestation and 

 Climate ; Acclimatization of the English in Ceylon ; 

 Becent Puhlications : R. DeC. Ward 837 



Scientific Notes and News 838 



University and Educational News 842 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Distribution of Slarine 3Tmnmals : Wm. H. Dall. 

 A Postscript on the Term inology of Types : F. A. 

 Bather. Organic Selection : EobeetM. Pieece. 

 Euproctis Chrysorrhcea in Massachusetts: Sam- 

 uel Henshaw 843 



Scientific Literature : — 



Das Tierreich : Leonhaed Stejnegee. Soio- 

 ard's Study in Insect Parasitism : T. D. A. COCK- 

 eeell. Marine Fossils from the Coal Measures of 

 Arkansas: FREDERIC W. SiMONDS. Wheeler 

 on the Clay Deposits of Missouri : H. Foster 

 Bain 846 



Scientific Journals : — 



The American Chemical Journal: J. Elliott 

 Gilpin. The American Geologist 852 



Societies and Academies : — 



Chemical Society of Washington: V. K. Ches- 

 NUT. Entomological Society of Washington : L, 

 O. H. Anthropological Society of Washington : 

 J. H. McCoEJUCK 855 



MSS. intended lor publication and books, etc., intended 

 for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Prof. J. 

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



ADAPTATION IN PATHOLOGICAL PROCESSES* 

 Grateful as I am for the personal good- 

 will manifested by my selection as Presi- 

 dent of this Congress, I interpret this great 

 and unexpected honor as an expression of 

 your desire to give conspicuous recognition 

 to those branches of medical science not 

 directly concerned with professional prac- 

 tice, and as such I acknowledge it with 

 sincere thanks. 



All departments represented in this Con- 

 gress are working together toward the solu- 

 tion of those great problems — the causes 

 and the nature, the prevention and the 

 cure, of disease —which have always been 

 and must continue to be the ultimate ob- 

 jects of investigation in medicine. It is 

 this unity of purpose which gives to the 

 history of medicine, from its oldest records 

 to the present time, a continuity of interest 

 and of development not possessed in equal 

 degree by any other department of knowl- 

 edge. It is this same unity of purpose 

 which joins together into a single, effective 

 organism the component groups of this 

 Congress, representing, as they do, that 

 principle of specialization and subdivision 

 of labor which, notwithstanding its perils, 

 has been the great factor in medical prog- 

 ress in modern times. 



Medical science is advanced not only by 



* Address of the President before the Fourth Trien- 

 nial Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, 

 held in Washington, May 4-6, 1897. 



