The First Forty Years of the Society of American Bacteriologists.

The First Forty Years of the Society of American Special Articles: Bacteriologists: DR. C.-E. A. WINSLOW .............................. 125 Resonance and the Chemistry of Histidine: TERPresentation of the Gold Medal of the American InRELL L. HILL and PROFESSOR GERALD E. K. stitute of the City of New York: BRANCH. Further Evidence of Sex Variation in A Modern Pioneer: DR. DAVID SARNOFF ........................ 129 the Utilization of Iron by Anemic Rats: DR. The Story of Short Waves: DR. FRANK CONRAD ...... 131 LOUISE OTIS and DR. MARGARET CAMMACK SMITH. Obituary: On the Origin of Urogastrone: C. U. CULMER and Frederic Schiller Lee: R. ORATIo ILLIAM S............................................................................................................... 145 Alfred George Jacques: Dn. W. J. V. OSTERHOUT. Scientific Apparatus and Laboratory Methods: Recent Deaths and emorials ...................................................... 133 A Roller Bottle Tissue Culture System: DR. DARScientific Events: ELL T. SHAW, LAWRENCE C. KINGSLAND and DR. Annual Report of the Director of the New York As M. BRES. The Use of a Translongitome Botanical Garden; Enlargement of the Chemistry in Making and Interpreting Alternate Transverse Building of the University of Cincinnati; Officers and Longitudinal Serial Sections: Pnorzssop D. M. of the Washington Academy of Science; The SumCROOKS 148 mer Meetings of Botanists; The American Chemical ociety and r. Spring ..................................................................... 135 Science News ..................................................................................................... 5 Scientific ews .................................................................. 137 Discussion: An Endemic Palm on Cocos Island near Panama SCIENCE: A Weekly Journal devoted to the AdvanceMistaken for the Coconut Palm: DR. O. F. COOK. ment of Science, edited by J. MCKEEN CATTELL and pubMomentum and Energy: PROFESSOR R. F. DEIMEL. lished every Friday by The Usefulness of Biological Abstracts: DR. CARL G.HARTMAN ................................................................................................... 140 THE SCIENCE PRESS Scientific Books: New York City: Grand Central Terminal Terrestrial Magnetism and Electricity: DR. W. F. Lancaster, Pa. Garrison, N. Y. G. SWANN. Modern Science: DR. C. G. MONTGOMERY. Prehistoric Life: PROFESSOR HERVEY W. Annual Subscription, $6.00 Single Copies, 15 Cts. SHIMER ........................................ 142 SCIENCE is the official organ of the American AssociaSocieties and Meetings: tion for the Advancement of Science. Information regardThe Tennessee Academy of Science: P.o..sso. ing membership in the Association may be secured from the office of the permanent secretary in the Smithsonian J. T. MCGILL ................................................................................................ 144 Institution Building, Washington, D.C.