SCIENCE 



Editorial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. "Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickering, 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics; E. H. Thurston, Engineering; Ira Eemsen, Chemistry; 



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



Brooks, C. Hart Merriam, Zoology; S. H. Scudder, Entomology; N. L. Britton, 



Botany; Henry F. Osborn, General Biology; H. P. Bowditch, Physiology; 



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



Daniel G. Brinton, J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, September 11, 1896. 



CONTENTS: 



The Buffalo Meeting of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science : — 

 Address of the Vice-President before Section D. — 

 Mechanical Science and Engineering : The Artistic 

 Element in Engineering: Frank O. Marvin... 321 

 Address of the Vice-President before Section E. — 

 Geology and Geography: Geological Myths: 



B. K. Emerson 328 



Section A. — Mathematics and Astronomy: E. B. 



Frost 344 



Section B. — Physics: W. S. Franklin 346 



The Physiology of Color in Plants: D. T. Mac- 

 DOUGAL 350 



{Jwrent Notes on Anthropology : — 



Mortuary Ceremonies : The Psychology of Primi- 

 tive Man : D. G. Brinton 351 



Scientific Notes and News : — 



Scientific Research and Commercial Success; TJie 

 German Zoological Society; Reports on Engine 

 Trials of 1896; General 352 



University and Educational News 357 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



The Lick Bevieio of ' 3Iars ' .• A. E. Douglass. 

 Commercial Mica in North Carolina : The Story of 

 its Discovery : Frederic W. Simonds 358 



Scientific Literature : — 



Williams' Manual of Lithology : M. E. Wads- 

 WORTH. American Linguistics : D. G. Brinton. 361 



■Scientific Journals : 



Psyche 364 



New Books 364 



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

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

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



TSE BUFFALO MEETING OF THE A3IEBICAN 



ASSOCIATION FOB THE ADVANCEMENT 



OF SCIENCE. 



THE ABTISTIC ELEMENT IN ENGINEEBING.* 



A FRIEND of the writer, a successsful busi- 

 ness man and much interested in things ar- 

 tistic, when informed of the choice of sub- 

 ject for this paper, gave expression to a feel- 

 ing of surprise doubting if there was any 

 relation between engineering and aesthetics. 



One of the leading engineers of America 

 once asked a professional brother what he 

 did for recreation, and on being told of a 

 modest interest in pictures and music like- 

 wise expressed surprise, saying, " You are 

 the first engineer that I have ever known 

 to be a musician." There was also an im- 

 plication, though unintentional, of a dimin- 

 ished respect— perhaps on both sides. 



These two incidents may be taken to 

 typify in a general way the attitude that is 

 held by the business world, on the one side, 

 and the engineering fraternity, on the other, 

 towards the relationship which it is pro- 

 posed here to discuss. 



That the artistic element is not recog- 

 nized as it might or ought to be in the pres- 

 ent American day is natural. The rapid 

 development and growth of our land, the 

 intensive study of science and the concen- 

 tration of the efforts put forth to adapt it to 

 everyday affairs, has exalted one phase of 



*Address of the Vice-President before Section D. — 

 Mechanical Science and Engineering. 



