NOVEMBEE 25, 1904.] 



SCIENCE. 



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in general, in so far as the differences between 

 animals and plants do not enter into consid- 

 eration; (3) Literature dealing with the study 

 of the cell generally." 



There are five main headings : ' General ' ; 

 ' Methods and Apparatus ' ; ' General Morphol- 

 ogy ' ; ' General Physiology ' ; ' General Cytol- 

 ogy.' That the classification of subject mat- 

 ter is scarcely more than a beginning, is 

 shown by the very small number of subhead- 

 ings, only 87 numbers out of a possible 9,999 

 being used. Under ' General Morphology ' 

 there occur only four subheadings, namely: 

 ' General ' ; ' Tectology (Structure of the Indi- 

 vidual)'; ' Promorphology (Fundamental Prin- 

 ciples of Structure) ' ; and ' Teratology ' ; which 

 are numbered 1,000, 1,100, 1,200 and 1,500 

 respectively, all other numbers from 1,000 up 

 to 2,000 being yet unfilled. ' General Physi- 

 ology ' and ' General Cytology ' are somewhat 

 more elaborated, but in the former there are 

 only thirty-two subheadings, and in the latter 

 only thirty-one, out of a possible four thou- 

 sand in each case. It is easy to point out 

 important omissions which might readily have 

 been avoided. Such a voluminous subject as 

 ' regeneration ' is not mentioned. While ' sen- 

 escence,' ' degeneration ' and ' death ' are all 

 present, ' growth ' is wanting. Physiological 

 articles are found under both ' General Physi- 

 ology ' and ' General Cytology.' Some of the 

 subjects which were pointed out in a previous 

 review (Science, XIX., No. 493, p. 886) as 

 absent from the branch of the catalogue de- 

 voted to physiology proper, are here found 

 under ' General Cytology.' These include 



* irritability ' and ' fatigue,' but ' summation 

 of stimuli,' ' rhythm,' ' specific energy ' and 



* automatieity ' are omitted, while no mention 

 is made of the tactic irritabilities. If articles 

 on the physiology of the cell are to be indexed 

 in both branches of the catalogue, it would 

 seem to be the most logical and convenient 

 arrangement to employ the same classification 

 for both; but this method is not followed, and 

 with the exception of cross references there 

 seems to be no relation whatever between the 

 two. 



The present volume is supposed to include 

 the literature published in 1901, together with 



a portion of that of 1902. Nine hundred and 

 eighty-two articles are catalogued. The num- 

 ber of American journals is thirteen, of which 

 the American Naturalist is credited to the 

 United Kingdom. Cross references to other 

 volumes of the catalogue are very numerous 

 and tend to compensate for the incompleteness 

 of the present volume. 



The general impression left by an examina- 

 tion of the volume is that in its present form 

 it is tentative and inadequate. It might 

 easily be made a valuable adjunct to the 

 volumes on botany, zoology, physiology and 

 bacteriology. Predbric S. Lee. 



Columbia Ujsiiveesity. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



THE SCIENCE CLUB OP THE UNIVERSITY OF 

 WISCONSIN. 



The first regular meeting of the club for 

 the year 1904-05 was held October 25, at 

 Y:30 P.M., in the physical lecture room of 

 Science Hall. Dr. V. Lenher gave an account 

 of results obtained in a preliminary study of 

 the gases dissolved in the water of Lake Men- 

 dota. It was shown that the amount of 

 oxygen dissolved in the water of this lake 

 decreases rapidly when the thermocline is 

 reached, at a depth of about twelve meters, and 

 that the carbonic acid in the water increases, 

 so that while the surface water is faintly 

 alkaline from dissolved calcium carbonate, the 

 reaction of the water at this depth becomes 

 acid. 



The second paper of the evening, by Dr. S. 

 Weidman, treated the subject, ' Wisconsin 

 Iron-Ore Deposits,' with especial reference to 

 the Baraboo district. The first year's ship- 

 ment (1904) from the newly-discovered Bara- 

 boo district in Sauk County will probably 

 reach 100,000 tons. The ore lies in the syn- 

 clinal valley between the Baraboo quartzite 

 ranges. The ore, associated dolomite, slate 

 and quartzite are of pre-Cambrian age, like 

 the formations in the Lake Superior iron 

 districts. The valley is covered with upper 

 Cambrian sandstone, and explorations are 

 carried on by drilling through this formation. 

 A number of good ore deposits have been 



