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SCIENGE. 



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investigation, its author is about a century be- 

 hind time, as every student of the actual re- 

 mains of earliest man knows the painful but 

 irrefutable evidence of his worse than barbar- 

 ous, his really brutal, condition, apart from all 

 comparisons with modern savages. 



A BOOKLET ON ETHNOLOGY. 



De. Michael Haberlandt is a ' Privatdo- 

 cent ' in the University of Vienna and also 

 Curator of the Ethnographic Collection in the 

 Eoyal Museum of that city. A few months 

 ago there appeared from his pen a duodecimo 

 treatise on Ethnography which offers much the 

 best summary of the science which I have any- 

 where seen. Of its 200 pages half are devoted 

 to general principles, those which belong to 

 ' Ethnology ;' and the remainder to descriptive 

 ethnography. Both are characterized by thor- 

 ough familiarity with the facts, and careful, in- 

 dependent reflection on them. The introduc- 

 tion discusses, with remarkable clearness, the 

 principles of social degeneration and evolution. 



Just such brief, clear, up-to-date books as 

 this are what we need in anthropology in this 

 country. It is better to write them thau to 

 translate them, and it is unfortunate that we 

 still lack them. {Volkerkunde, G. F. Goschen, 

 Leipzig. 1898.) 



D. G. Brinton, 

 University of Pennsylvania. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



In the present issue of Science — which opens 

 a new volume — the short notes are placed at 

 the end, in the part of the number which is the 

 last to be printed. These notes should contain 

 reliable, prompt and full information, and men 

 of science in America and abroad are requested 

 to contribute items of news whose publication 

 will forward the objects of this Journal. 



The Paris Academy of Sciences has awarded 

 its Lalande prize to Dr. S. C. Chandler, of Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., and the Damoiseau prize to Dr. 

 George W. Hill, of Columbia University. 



Professor G. W. Farlow, of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, has been elected President of the Amer- 

 ican Society of Naturalists. Professor H. C. 

 Bumpus, of Brown University, to whom the 

 recent growth and successful meetings of the 



Society have been in large measure due, has 

 resigned the Secretaryship and is succeeded by 

 Professor T. H. Morgan, of Bryn Mawr Col- 

 lege. 



Professor K. S. Woodward, of Columbia 

 University, has been elected President of the 

 American Mathematical Society in succession to 

 Professor Simon Newcomb. 



Professor John Dewey, of the University 

 of Chicago, has been elected President of the 

 A:i,erican Psychological Association. 



The ofBce of Mr. W. T. Hornaday, Director 

 of the New York Zoological Park, has been 

 moved from 69 Wall Street to the Park, South- 

 ern Boulevard and 183d Street, and communi- 

 cations should now be sent to this address. The 

 offices are temporarily established in the Elk 

 House, near the southwest corner of the Park. 



The Eev. Dr. Bartholomew Price, Master 

 of Pembroke College, Oxford, and until last 

 year Sedleian professor of natural philosophy, 

 died on December 29th in his 81st year. He 

 was the author of works on dj'namics and on 

 the calculus. 



Dr. John B. Hamilton, formerly Surgeon- 

 General of the U. S. Marine Hospital Service, 

 editor of the Journal of the American Medical 

 Association and professor of surgery at the Rush 

 Medical College, Chicago, died at Elgin, 111., 

 on December 2-lth. 



Dr. William Munk, the well-known London 

 physician, died on December 20th, aged 73. 

 He was formerly Librarian of the Harveian Li- 

 brary of the Royal College of Physicians and 

 author of the Roll of the College and other 

 works, both of a biographical character and on 

 medical subjects. 



The New York Section of the American 

 Chemical Society was able to receive the So- 

 ciety at its recent New York meeting in the 

 Chemists' Club, newly established in the build- 

 ing at 108 West 55th Street. The club-house 

 contains a large assembly room for meetings, 

 smaller rooms and accommodation for the li- 

 brary, which it is expected will be deposited 

 there. The President of the Club is Professor 

 Charles F. Chandler, of Columbia University. 



The Royal Institution, London, was founded 



