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, December 30, 1904. 

 contents. 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science- 

 Science and Economics : Peesidekt Carroll 

 D. Wrisht 697 



University Registration Statistics : Dr. Rudolf 

 ToiiBO, JR 909 



AmericanOrmthologists' Union: John H. Sage 915 



Scientific Books: — 



Seicard on the Jurassic Flora : Dr. Lester 

 F. Ward. Gratacap on the Geology of the 

 City of Neio York: Professor J. F. Kemp. 

 Stereochemie .• T. W. E 917 



Scientifio Journals atid Articles 921 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Chemical Society of Washington: A. 

 Seidell. The Philosophical Society of 

 Washington : Charles K. Wead. The Torrey 

 Botanical Club: Edward W. Berry 921 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Nomenclature of Physiography: Dr. 

 RoBT. T. Hill. A Peculiar Eahit of the 

 Badger: Theo. B. Comstock 923 



Special Articles: — 



Amphibia versus Batrachia: Dk. Leonhard 

 Ste.jneger. An Adaptation of the Card 

 Catalogue Cabinet: C. L. Marlatt 9'ii 



Quotations : — 



Convocation Week at the University of 

 Pennsylvania ; Compulsory Greek at Oxford 

 and Cambridge 926 



Notes on Entomology r Nathan Banks ....'. 928 



International Cooperation in Solar Research 930 

 The Franklin Fund 932 



Scientific Notes and News 932 



University and Educational News 936 



MSS. inteuded lor pablicatiou and books, etc., intended 

 for, review should be sent to the Editor of Science, Gairi- 

 8on-on-Hud8on, N. Y. 



SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS:' 

 In science we find the dynamics of polit- 

 ical economy, as well as maijy other 

 branches of human knowledge and human 

 speculation. That eminent prelate and 

 statesman, James Cardinal Gibbons, at the 

 dedication of McMahon Hall of Philosophy 

 at the Catholic University of America a 

 few years ago, said that many were of the 

 opinion that the Mother Church did not 

 welcome the results of scientific research — 

 that there might be something to be feared 

 relative to theology and religion in such 

 research— but he asserted emphatically 

 that the church welcomed all science and 

 all revelations of science as new revelations 

 of religion. His eminence recognized and 

 appreciated the great changes in thought 

 which had come over the world of intel- 

 ligence during the last thirty or forty 

 years, and that nothing could be revealed 

 by science that did not reveal the hand of 

 the great first cause ; that science was God 's 

 instrument in teaching His handiwork to 

 the human race. 



The conflicts of science and religion, 

 about which we heard so much a generation 

 ago, have no place now in the thought of 

 those who see in science such handiwork. 

 We no longer look upon the earth as the 

 spasmodic creation of a few days. Genesis 

 becomes grand and beautiful poetry in 

 place of alleged history. We see in it the 

 traditions of primitive man in his attempt 

 to account for creation. We see the eco- 



* Address of the retiring president of the Amer- 

 ican Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 Philadelphia, December 28, 1904. 



