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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, March 17, 1905. 



CONTENTS: 

 Alpheus Spring Packard: Professor J. S. 

 KiNGSLEY, Professor Carl Barus 401 



The Astronomical and Astrophysical Society 

 of America: Dr. Frank B. Littell 406 



Scientific Books: — 



Die Moore der Schioeiz: Professor W. F. 

 Ganong 424 



Scientific! Journals and Articles 425 



Societies and Academies: — 



The New York Academy of Sciences, Sec- 

 tion of Geology and Mineralogy : Professor 

 A. W. Grabau. The Philosophical Society 

 of Washington: Charles K. Wead 425 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 

 Recent Washington Rhizobia Experiments: 

 Professor Albert Schneider 428 



Special Articles: — 



A New Code of Nomenclature : Dr. J. A. 

 Allen 428 



Current Notes on Meteorology : — - 



Meteorological Results of the Blue Hill 

 Kite Work : Professor R. DeC. Ward .... 433 



Meeting of the British Association in South 

 Africa 435 



Joint Announcement of Summer Field Courses 

 in Geology 437 



Scientific Notes and News 437 



University and Educational News 440 



MSS. intended for publicatiou aud books, etc., intended 

 for review should be sent to tbe Editor of Science, Garri- 

 son-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



ALPHEUS SPRING PACKARD. 



Alpheus Spring Packard, for twenty- 

 six years professor of zoology and geology 

 in Brown University, died at Providence, 

 February 14, 1905. He was born at Bruns- 

 wick, Maine, February 19, 1831. His 

 father, for whom he was named, was for 

 over sixty years connected with the Bow- 

 doin College faculty, and his grandfather, 

 the Rev. Dr. Appleton, was one of the early 

 presidents of the college. 



At the age of eighteen he entered Bow- 

 doin and there came under the influence 

 and instruction of the late Paul Ansel 

 Chadbourne, who fostered and encouraged 

 his natural inclination towards zoological 

 work. Dr. Chadbourne at this time was 

 also connected with Williams College and 

 it was through him that Packard became a 

 member of the Williams College expedi- 

 tion of 1860 to Greenland and Labrador, 

 with which he went only as far as Labrador, 

 where he spent two months collecting, get- 

 ting back to college in time for the studies 

 of senior year. In the senior vacation he, 

 with several other Bowdoin students, went 

 on a dredging trip to the Bay of Fundy. 



Immediately after graduation in 1861 

 he accepted the position of entomologist to 

 the newly established scientific survey of 

 Maine and in this capacity he traveled 

 through a large part of the northern wil- 

 derness of the state. On this expedition he 

 made the first discovery of Silurian fossils 

 in the northern part of Maine and obtained 

 material for several articles which were 

 published in the first two reports of the 

 survey. 



