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. 



Friday, July 8, 1904. 



contents: 



The International Congress of Arts and Sci- 

 ence 33 



The American Chemical Society: Dk. Austin 

 M. Patteeson 38 



Material versus Intellectual Development of 

 our Universities: De. Alfeed Golds- 



BOEOUGH MAYEE 44 



Scientific Books: — 



Pictet's The Vegetahle Alkaloids: Pko- 



PESSOE Henet Ivbaemer 47 



Scientific Journals and Articles 49 



Societies and Academies: — • 



The Torrey Botanical Club: William T. 

 HoEKE. The St. Louis Academy of Science 49 

 Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Geo-Mologieal Terms: De. C. K. Eastman. 

 A Reply to Certain Criticisms of Professor 

 Giard respecting the Bopyrids: Haeeiet 



Richardson 51 



Special Articles: — 



An Account of the Preliminary Excavations 

 in a Recently Explored Quaternary Gave in 

 Shasta County, Cal. : E. L. Fuelong. 

 Vitality of Pseudomonas Campestris 

 (Pam.) Smith on Cabbage Seed: H. A. 

 Harding and F. C. Stewabt. A Notable 

 Paleobotanical Discovery: Edwaed W. 



Beeet 53 



Current Notes on Meteorology : — 

 Antarctic Meteorology ; Vertical Decrease of 

 Temperature in the Free Air; The Salmra 

 and the Soudan; Monthly Weather Review; 



Notes: Peofessor B. DeC. Ward 57 



William Henry Pettee 58 



Excavations in Turkestan 60 



The Golden Trout of Mt. Whitney 61 



Scientific Notes and News 61 



University and Educational News 64 



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

 for review abould be sent to the Editor of Science, Garri- 

 Bon-on-Hudaon, N. Y. 



THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ARTS 



AND SCIENCE. 



The program has now been issued of the 

 congress to be held as part of the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition from September 19 to 

 25 of the present year. The purpose and 

 plan of the congress are thus described: 



The idea of the congress grows out of the 

 thought that the subdivision and multipli- 

 cation of specialties in science has reached 

 a stage at which investigators and scholars 

 may derive both inspiration and profit 

 from a general survey of the various fields 

 of learning, planned with a view of bring- 

 ing the scattered sciences into closer mu- 

 tual relations. The central purpose is the 

 unification of knowledge, an effort toward 

 which seems appropriate on an occasion 

 when the nations bring together an exhibit 

 of their arts and industries. An assem- 

 blage is, therefore, to be convened at which" 

 leading representatives of theoretical and 

 applied sciences shall set forth those gen- 

 eral principles and fundamental concep- 

 tions which connect groups of sciences, re- 

 view the historical development of special 

 sciences, show their mutual relations and 

 discuss their present problems. 



The speakers to treat the various themes 

 are selected in advance from the European 

 and American continents. The discussions 

 will be arranged on the following general 

 plan : 



After the opening of the congress on 

 Monday afternoon, September 19, will fol- 

 low, on Tuesday forenoon, addresses on 

 main divisions of science and its applica- 

 tions, the general theme being the unifica- 

 tion of each of the fields treated. These 



