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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, May 12, 1905. 



CONTENTS. 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science: 

 Section D, MecJianical Science and Engi- 



neering: Professor Wm. T. Magruder. ... 721 



The Fisheries Laboratory at Beaufort: Dr. 

 Caswell Grave 732 



Scientific Books: — 



Castle on the Heredity of Coat Characters 

 in Guinea Pigs and Rabbits: Professor T. 

 H. Morgan. Branner on the Stone Reefs 

 of Brazil: Dr. OR\aLLE A. Derby 737 



Scientific Journals and Articles 740 



Societies and Academies: — 



The Society for Experimental Biology and 

 Medicine: Dr. William J. Gies. The 

 Philosophical Society of Washington : Dr. 

 Charles K. Wead. The Biological Society 



of Washington: E. L. Morris. Michigan 

 Ornithological Club: Dr. A. W. Blain, Jr. 

 The American Mycological Society 741 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



Audubon's Account of the New Madrid 

 Earthquake : M. L. Fuller. Suggestions 

 for Facilitating the Work of Zoologists: 



T. D. A. COCKERELL 748 



Special Articles: — 



A Card Index Stock List for use in Univer- 

 sity Departments of Organic Chemistry: 

 Professor Marston Taylor Bogert. A 

 Quarititative Circulation Scheme; Rocking 

 Key with Metal Contacts: Professor Wm. 

 T. Porter. Some Notes on the Myodome 

 of the Fish Cranium: Dr. Edwin Chapin 



Starks 75 J 



Botanical Notes: — 



Life History of the Pines; Limu; A New 

 Grass Book; The Useful Plants of Guam: 

 Professor Charles E. Bessey 755 



Scientific Notes and News 757 



University and Educational News 760 



MSS. inteuded for publlcatiou aud books, etc.. intended 

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

 fion-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 

 SECTION D, MECHANICAL SCIENCE AND 

 ENGINEERING. 



The meetings were held in the engineer- 

 ing building of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. The following officers were elected 

 to serve during the meeting: 



Councilor— ¥. W. McNair, president Michigan 

 College of Mines, Houghton, Mich. 



Member of the General Committee — H. S. 

 Jacoby, professor of bridge engineering, Cornell 

 University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Member of the Sectional Committee, 1905 to 

 1910 — A. M. Greene, Jr., professor of mechanical 

 engineering. University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. 



The secretary of the section was elected 

 press secretary; vice-president and chair- 

 man of the section D. S. Jacobus, professor 

 of experimental engineering, Stevens Insti- 

 tute, Hoboken, N. J., was forced to be ab- 

 sent, owing to illness in his family. The 

 sectional committee appointed Calvin M. 

 Woodward, ex-vice-president of the section, 

 to act as chairman of the section for the 

 meeting. 



The program had been arranged so that 

 papers pertaining to civil engineering, 

 mechanical engineering, metallurgical en- 

 gineering and general engineering, and 

 to engineering education, should be read 

 at separate sessions. The program of 

 Wednesday morning, December 28, was de- 

 voted to civil engineering. The first paper 

 on the program was by C. G. Elliott, expert 

 in irrigation and drainage investigations 

 of the Department of Agriculture, Wash- 

 ington, D. C, and was on 'Irrigation and 

 Drainage Investigations of the Department 



