JUL 1 1S05 



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, June 30, 1905. 



VO'NTE'NTS. 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 and Harvard University : — 

 Agreement heiween Harvard University 

 and the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology; Extract from the Will and Codicils 

 of the Late Gordon McKay; Extracts from 

 the Minority Report in Favor of the Alli- 

 ance; Extracts from the Report Adverse to 

 the Alliance adopted by the Faculty 969 



Scientific Books: — 



Gardiner on Madrcporaria : Dr. T. Way- 

 land Vaughan 984 



Societies and Academies: — ■ 



The Society for Experimental Biology and 

 Medicine: Dr. William J. Gies. The 

 New York Academy of Sciences, Section of 

 Geology and Mineralogy : Professor A. W. 

 Grabau. Section of Biology: Professor 

 M. A. BiGELOW 986 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Pre-pleistocene Deposits at Third Cliff, 

 Massachusetts : Isaiah Bowman. Exoglos- 

 sum in the Delaivare: Henry W. Fowler. 993 



Special Articles: — 



The Brain of the Histologist and Physiol- 

 ogist, Otto C. Loven: Dr. Edward Anthony 

 Spitzka. Apples Injured by Sulphur 



Fumigation: H. J. Eustace 994 



The Floating Laboratory of Marine Biology 

 of Trinity College: Professor Charles L. 

 Edwards 995 



Frederic Delpino: Dr. J. Y. Bergen 996 



The American Microscopical Society 996 



Columbia University and Dr. R. S. Woodivard 997 



Scientific Notes and Neirs 997 



University and Educational News 1000 



MSS. inteudedfor publicatiou and books, etc., intended 

 for review sliould be sent to the Editor of Science, Garri- 

 son-on-Hudson, N. Y. 



THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF 

 TECHNOLOGY AND HARVARD 

 UNIVERSITY. 



The proposed affiliation or alliance of 

 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 with Harvard University was, as we have 

 already reported, approved at a meeting 

 of the corporation of the institute on June 

 9. Thirty-two of the forty-seven members 

 of the corporation were present, and by a 

 vote of 20 to 12 it was agreed to accept 

 the terms of the agreement drawn up by 

 the committee of the two institutions. 

 Before the agreement can become effective 

 the corporation and overseers of Harvard 

 University must take action and several 

 legal questions must be passed upon by the 

 courts. It will be remembered that on 

 May 5 the faculty of the institute adopted 

 by a vote of 56 to 7 the report of the com- 

 mittee adverse to the affiliation. A full 

 account of the report adopted by the fac- 

 ulty and of the minority report, together 

 with an account of the meeting of the 

 alumni on May 4 has been published in a 

 special issue of The Technology Review. 



In view of the great importance of the 

 proposed merger for university develop- 

 ment and technological education we re- 

 produce here: (1) The agreement pre- 

 pared by President H. S. Pritchett and 

 Professor A. Lawrence Lowell on behalf of 

 the institute and Dr. H. P. Walcott and 

 Charles Francis Adams, 2d, Esq., on behalf 

 of the university, now adopted by the cor- 

 poration of the institute; (2) the will of 

 the late Gordon ]\IcKay in so far as it re- 

 lates to his bequest to Harvard University, 



