SCIENCE 



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

 Astronomy ; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics ; R. H. Thurston, Engineering ; Ira Remsen, Chemistry ; 

 Charles D. Walcott, Geology ; W. M. Davis, Physiography ; Henry F. Osboen, Paleon- 

 tology ; W. K. Brooks, C. Hart Merriam, Zoology ; S. H. Scudder, Entomology ; C. E. 

 Bessey, N. L. Britton, Botany ; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology ; H. P. Bow- 

 ditch, Physiology ; J. S. Billings, Hygiene ; William H. Welch, Pathol- 

 ogy ; J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology ; J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, September 6, 1901. 



CONTENTS : 



The American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science : — 



The Denver Meeting 345 



The Proceedings of the Association : Professor 



John M. Coulter 348 



Bemarks of President Minot 357 



Some Points in the Early History and Present 

 Condition of the Teaching of Chemistry in the 

 Medical Schools of the United States : PRO- 

 FESSOR J. H. Long 360 



Scientific Books : — 



Besearch Papers from the Kent Chemical Labora- 

 tory of Yale University : Professor Wm. Theo- 



dore Richards. Hoivard^s 'The Insect Book' : 



Professor John M. Smith 372 



Scientific Journals and Articles 373 



Academies and Societies : — 



The Summer Meeting and Colloquium of the 



American Mathematical Society : Professor F. 



N. Cole 375 



Paleontological Notes : — 



Vertebrates from the Trias of Arizona: F. A. 



Luc^s 376 



The Approaching Meeting of the British Association 376 



Scientific Notes and News 378 



University and Educational News 384 



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

 for review should be sent to the responsible editor, Pro- 

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



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF 



SCIENCE. 



The Denver meeting was notable in several particulars. It w^as feared that a meeting 

 so far west would be poorly attended, but the registration reached 311, being larger 

 than that of the second Detroit and Madison meetings, and nearly as large as that of the 

 Columbus and fourth Buffalo meetings. The number of representative men of science 

 was proportionally very large, so that the sectional meetings were well attended and 

 were as full of interest as at larger meetings of the Association, more than 200 papers 

 having been presented. In the registration Colorado led with 79 members, while the 

 number of members residing west of the Mississippi reached 162. 



The attitude of the citizens of Denver and of Colorado, as indicated by the press and 

 by arrangements for the convenience and entertainment of members, was most happy. 

 This is well indicated by the following extract from an editorial which appeared in 

 the Denver Post of August 30 : 



