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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 26, 1905. 



CONTENTS. 



The General Meeting of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society 801 



Scientific Books: — 



True on the Whalebone Whales: F. A. L. 

 Two Recent Moss Bools: Professor F. D. 

 Heald 814 



Scientific Journals and Articles 817 



Societies and Academies: — 



The American Physical Society: Professor 

 Ernest Merritt. The American Chemical 

 Society, New York Section: F. H. Pougti; 

 Cornell Section: Dr. W. S. Lenk. The 

 Geological Society of Washington: Dr. Geo. 

 Otis Smith 817 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Concerning the Natural Mounds: A. H. 

 Purdue. The Basalt Mounds of the Co- 

 lumbia Lava: C. V. Piper 823 



Special Articles: — 



Leveling without BaseleveUng : Professor 

 W. M. Davis. Nomenclatorial Type Speci- 

 mens of Plant Species: A. S. Hitchcock. . 825 



Current Notes on Meteorology : — 



Mountain Sickness in the Sikhim Himalaya; 

 The Kalahari Desert; Meteorological Ob- 

 servatory, Neiv Year Island; Notes: Pro- 

 fessor R. DeC. Ward 832 



Notes on Entomology : Dr. Nathan Banks. . 833 



Men of Affairs in Education 835 



The Carnegie Foundation 836 



The Increased Endoioment of Harvard College 836 



The International Anatomical Congress at 

 Geneva 836 



Scientific Notes and News 837 



University and Educational News 839 



THE GENERAL MEETING OF THE AMERI- 

 CAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



The annual general meeting of the 

 American Philosophical Society was held 

 this year during Wednesday, Thursday 

 and Friday of the second week in April. 

 The sessions as usual were held in the 

 rooms of the society in Philadelphia. 

 The number in attendance, including non- 

 resident members, resident members and 

 others, was quite as large as on previous 

 similar occasions, while the quantity and 

 character of the papers offered, together 

 with the discussion on them, called forth 

 much favorable comment. The program 

 was especially broad in its scope, including 

 the various departments of natural and 

 physical science, of literature and of prob- 

 lems in economics. 



On Thursday the society sent, through 

 its secretary. Dr. I. Minis Hays, a telegram 

 of greeting to the University of Virginia 

 on the occasion of the inauguration of a 

 president of its faculty. This was done in 

 special commemoration of the fact that 

 Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the uni- 

 versity, was also an early president of the 

 American Philosophical Society. 



The meeting was opened on Wednesday 

 afternoon at 2:30 o'clock by the president, 

 Vice-Provost Edgar F. Smith, of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, with a brief ad- 

 dress of welcome, after which the following 

 papers were presented : 



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

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

 flon-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



The Weal-Eelation: Professor Lindley M, 

 Keasbey, of Bryn Mawr, Pa. 



