THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. 



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Berlin) ; once to France, to Sweden, to 

 Denmark and to Russia. 



The Independent raises the question 

 a& to -whether America has been neg- 

 lected, and asks for a vote for five 

 Americans who deserve the prize next 

 year. It must unfortunately be ac- 

 knowledged that no American deserves 

 the prizes in science on the lines fol- 

 lowed by the administrators of the 

 trust. Xobel himself laid special stress 

 on an invention benefiting mankind, 

 and Dr. Bell and Mr. Edison are here 

 preeminent. In pure science Willard 

 Gibbs deserved the prize, but we have 

 now no physicist, chemist or physiolo- 

 gist as eminent as Europeans who could 

 be named. We stand better in some 

 other sciences, and we may hope in 

 work being carried forward by men 

 who may ultimately attain interna- 

 tional eminence. 



TEE JESUP NORTE PACIFIC 

 EXPEDITION. 



Mr. Morris K. Jesup, president of 

 the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, provided in 1897 means for a 

 thorough ethnological exploration of 



the northern coast of North America 

 and Asia from British Columbia to the 

 Amur River. The expedition has re- 

 sulted in valuable accessions to the 

 American Museum and in important 

 ethnological, archeological, linguistic 

 and anthropometric studies, which 

 are now in course of publication in 

 twelve volumes under the editorship of 

 Dr. Franz Boas, of the American Mu- 

 seum and Columbia University. Inves- 

 tigations along the northern coast have 

 been carried out by Messrs. Boas. Far- 

 rand, Smith and Teit, and on the Asiatic 

 side by Messrs. Laufer, Fowke, Jochel- 

 son and Bogoras. 



The memoir last published is an ac- 

 count of the material culture of the 

 Chukchee. the tribes inhabiting the ex- 

 treme northeastern corner of Siberia, 

 of special interest consequently to those 

 who speculate on the past peopling of 

 the Americas by way of Bering Strait 

 or the future construction of telegraphs 

 and railways through these regions. 

 It also has an adventitious interest just 

 now in view of a possible change in 

 sovereignty. It appears, indeed, that 

 this territory has not been completely 



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