SCIENCE 



EditoeiaIi Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; R. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickeeinq ; 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics; E. H. Thtjeston, Engineering; Ira Remsen, Chemistry; 



J. Le Conte, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; Henry F. Osboen, Paleontology ; W. K. 



Brooks, C. Hart Merriam, Zoology; S. H. Scuddee, Entomology; C. E. Bessey, N. L. 



Beitton, Botany; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology; H. P. Bowditch, Physiology; 



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



J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Fkiday, January 26, 1900. 



CONTENTS: 



The International Association of Scientific Societies.. 121 



Blue Fox Trapping on the Pribilof Islands : F. A. 

 Lucas 125 



The Deep Well at Wilmington, N. C. : Peofessoe 

 J. A. Holmes 128 



Granites of the Sierra Costa Mountains in Cali- 

 fornia: Oscar H. Hershey 130 



The American Psychological Association : De. 

 Livingston Faeeand 132 



Section of Anthropology of the American Associa- 

 tion : De. E. W. Sceiptdee 136 



The Geological Society of America : Peofessoe J. 

 F. Kemp, De. A. S. Eakle 140 



Scientific Books : — 

 Biedermann' s Electro-physiology: G. N. 1. S. 

 Korschelt and Heider on the Embryology of Inver- 

 tebrates : Peofessoe W. M. Wheeler. The 

 United States Fish Commission. BooJcs Received. 146 



Scientific Journals and Articles 151 



Societies and Academies : — 



Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters : 

 Dr. a. S. Flint. The Kansas Academy of Sci- 

 ence: E. H. S. B. Washington Chemical So- 

 ciety: Dr. Wm. H. Krug 151 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 

 Prevention of Hail: Professor E. W. Hil- 

 GARD. Electrical Anaesthesia: Dr. E. W. 

 Sceipture 153 



Current Notes on Physiography : — 



The Chattanooga District; Biver Spacing and 

 Begional Beveling ; An Ancient Plain in Colo- 

 rado ; The Ural Mountains: Professor W. M. 

 Davis 154 



Notes on Inorganic Chemistry: J. L. H 154 



Notes on Terrestrial 3Iagnetism 156 



Scientific Notes and Neics : — 



The Congress of American Physicians and Sur- 

 geons ; The Society of American Bacteriologists ; 

 Washington Academy of Sciences. General 157 



University and Educational News 160 



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

 for review should be sent to the responsible editor. Profes- 

 sor, J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudsou, N.Y. 



TffE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCI- 

 ENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 

 We are able to publish through the cour- 

 tesy of the President of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, Dr. Wolcott Gibbs, the 

 correspondence arranging for the confer- 

 ence of Scientific Societies held at Wies- 

 baden on the 9th and 10th of October, 1899. 

 We hope to be able to publish later through 

 the courtesy of Professor H. P. Bowditch, 

 delegate from the National Academy of Sci- 

 ences, an account of the Conference based on 

 the oiHcial proceedings. It is scarcely neces- 

 sary to call attention to the great importance 

 of the plans of the Conference for the ad- 

 vancement of science and for the good under- 

 standing between nations to which the ad- 

 vancement of science is largely contributing. 



The Royal Society, Burlington House, 



London, W., April 14, 1899. 

 SiE : The Royal Society has frequently had 

 occasion to take action in respect to scientific 

 undertakings calling for the cooperation of sev- 

 eral countries, and undertakings of this nature 

 show a tendency to increase. The experience 

 of the Society has lead to the belief that it 

 would be very advantageous to the interests of 

 science generally if some machinery could be 

 devised, by means of which suggestions made 

 for international cooperation in scientific en- 

 quiries could be thoroughly discussed by the 

 leading men of science from a purely scientific 

 point of view, before definite proposals are 

 made with a view to ofBcial action by the Gov- 

 ernments of the countries concerned. 



