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, January, 27, 1905. 



CO'SITE^TTS: 

 The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: — 

 Cooperation among American Geographical 

 Societies: Professor Israel C. Russell. . 121 



Section E — Geology and Geography : Dr. 



Edmund Otis Hovey 135 



Section G — Botany: Professor Francis E. 

 Lloyd 138 



Scientific Books: — 



Zoology in the International Catalogue of 

 Scientific Literature: Professor Henry B. 

 U'ard 147 



Scientific Journals and Articles 150 



Societies and Academies : — 



The Neu; York Section of the American 

 Chemical Society: Dr. F. H. Pough. The 

 Torrey Botanical Club: Edward W. Berry. 

 The Science Club of Northtvestern Univer- 

 sity: Floyd Field 150 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



The Epidiascope: Professor A. D. Mead.. 162 



Quotations : — 

 Another Cancer Serum 153 



Special Articles: — 



A Model illustrating Hittorf's Thco7-y of 

 the Migration Velocities of Ions: Dr. Fred- 

 erick H. Getman 1 53 



The George Washington University and the 

 George Washington Memorial Association. 155 



The Porto Rico Experiment Station 156 



The Eighteenth Session of the Marine Bio- 

 logical Laboratory ICQ 



Scientific Notes and News 157 



University and Educational Xeirs 160 



MSS. inteudedfor publication aud books, etc., intended 

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

 son-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOB THE 

 ADVANCEMENT OP SCIENCE. 

 COOPERATION AMONG AMERICAN GEO- 

 GRAPHICAL SOCIETIES* 



In considering the many ways in whicli 

 the science having as its special province 

 the study of the earth's surface can be 

 enhanced and its service to mankind ren- 

 dered more efficient through the agency of 

 geographical societies, five subordinate 

 themes present' themselves for considera- 

 tion. These are : The scope and aim of 

 geography; the methods of gathering and 

 distributing geographical knowledge ; the 

 functions of geographical societies; the 

 present status of the geographical societies 

 in America ; and in what ways can the geo- 

 graphical societies of this country increase 

 their influence and enlarge their useful- 

 ness ? 



THE SCOPE AND AIM OF GEOGRAPHY. 



The proportions of a great mountain 

 seem to vary according to the point of 

 view of the beholder, and the impressions 

 it makes on various minds also vary, as 

 may be said, in reference to their sensitive- 

 ness to thought-waves of different length. 

 To the dweller in a vale at a mountain's 

 base, its sublime slopes do not present the 

 same picture that is beheld by the traveler 

 on a neighboring plain ; the impressions its 

 weathered battlements awaken in the mind 

 of the untutored savage have but a faint 

 resemblance to the train of thought started 



* Address of the vice-president and chairman of 

 Section E — Geology and Geography, Philadelphia, 

 December, 1904. 



