..ANUARY 20, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



by J. C. Merriam; 'Interaction of Hydro- 

 chloric Acid and Potassium Permanganate in 

 the Presence of Ferric Chloride.' by J. Brown ; 

 'Crystal Drawing,' by S. L. Penfield; ' Ane- 

 miopsis Calif ornica (Nutt.) H. ea A.: An 

 Anatomical Study,' by T. Holm. 



The December number of the Journal of 

 Nervous and Mental Diseases opens with an 

 article by Dr. J. drinker on a ease of juvenile 

 tabes in a family of neuro-syphilitics, inclu- 

 ding careful investigations of the family his- 

 tory, and supplemented by a report of a rather 

 unusual case of precocious tabes without evi- 

 dence of syphilitic infection, with an excep- 

 tionally long course and with fragilitas os- 

 siuni. Dr. ]\Iax Schlapp and Dr. J. J. Walsh 

 unite in presenting a case of subcortical cyst 

 and fibroma due to trauma producing Jack- 

 sonian epilepsy, cured by operation ; and the 

 original articles for the month close with a 

 short paper by Dr. James Burnett on the 

 therapeutic action of veronal. The proceed- 

 ings of the Boston Society of Psychiatry and 

 Neurology, May 19, 1904, are rejiorted, and also 

 the proceedings of the New York Neurological 

 Society, May 4, 1904. The ' Periscope ' gives 

 abstracts of the Journal of Mental Science, 

 Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpetriere, Jour- 

 nal de Neurologic, and Archives de Neurol- 

 ogie. Books reviewed are : ' Unconscious 

 Therapeutics,' by Dr. Alfred Schofield; ' Jahr- 

 esbericht iiber die Leistungen und Fortschritte 

 auf dem Gebiete der Neurologie und Psy- 

 chiatric,' by E. Plateau, E. Mendel and L. 

 Jacobson, and ' Lehrbuch der speziellen Psy- 

 chiatric fiir Studierende und Aerzte,' by Dr. 

 Alexander Pilcz. 



The Popular Science Monthly for January 

 contains the following articles : ' Some Ex- 

 periments of Luther Burbank,' by David Starr 

 Jordan, giving some of the results of his 

 labors in producing new plants; 'The Present 

 Problems of Paleontology,' by Henry Fairfield 

 Osborn; 'Social and Political Effects of Im- 

 migration,' by Allan McLaughlin; 'Galileo,' 

 by Edward S. Holden ; ' Radio-activity and 

 Matter,' by the late Clemens Winkler ; ' Edu- 

 cational Problems,' by the Lord Bishop of 



Hereford; some interesting facts about 'The 

 United States Pharmacopoeia,' by H. C. Wood ; 

 and ' The ^Mosquito Investigation in, New 

 Jersey,' by John B. Smith, which shows the 

 very important results secured during the last 

 three years. There are very interesting brief 

 articles in ' The Progress of Science.' 



SOCIETIE!? AND ACADEMIES. 



XEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. ANNUAL 

 MEETINO, DECEJIliER 19, 1904. 



The academy convened for the annual meet- 

 ing at I'M) P.M., on December 19, at the Hotel 

 Endicott. The president. Professor Edmund 

 B. Wilson, occupied the chair. A formal ses- 

 sion for the transaction of the regular busi- 

 ness of the academy was first held, and this 

 was followed by a dinner at which sixty-six 

 members and their friends were ])resent. 



The accompanying reports of the corre- 

 sponding secretary, recording secretary, treas- 

 urei-, librarian and oditoi- wx'w read and placed 

 on file. The report of the treasurer was 

 formally referred to the finance connnittee for 

 audit. 



The academy then proceeded to the election 

 of officers for the year 1905; Professors Hovey 

 and Lloyd were appointed tellers, ballots pre- 

 pared by the council according to the provi- 

 sions of the by-laws were distributed, and the 

 votes were counted. The following officers 

 were declared elected: 



President — James F. Kemp. 



Vice-Presidents — Edmund 0. Hovey (Section of 

 Geology and Mineralogy), Ernest R. von NardroflF 

 (Section of Astronomy, Physics and Chemistry), 

 W. M. Wheeler (Section of Biology), F. J. E. 

 Woodbridge (Section of Anthropology and Psy- 

 chology) . 



Corresponding Secretary — Richard E. Dodge. 

 Recording Slecrctary — Hermon C. Rumpus. 

 Treasurer — Charles F. Cox. 

 Librarian — Ralph W. Tower. 

 Editor — Charles Lane Poor. 



Couneilors (to serve three years) — Emerson 

 ^lc]\Iillin and F. H. Wiggin. 



Finance Committee — John H. Hinton, C. A. 

 Post, H. F. Osborn. 



The following eminent men of science were 

 elected honorary members, being presented to 



