SCIENCE 



Editorial Committee: S. Newcomb, Mathematics; R. S. Woodward, Mechanics; E. C. Pickeeing, 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics; E. H. Thurston, Engineering; Ira Remsen, Chemistry; 



J. Le Conte, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; O. C. Marsh, Paleontology; W. K. Brooks, 



C. Hart Merriam, Zoology; S. H. Scudder, Entomology; C. E. Bessey, N. L. Britton, 



Botany; Henry F. Osboen, General Biology; C. S. Mikot, Embryology, Histology; 



H. P. BowDiTCH, Physiology; J. S. Billings, Hygiene ; J. McKeen Cattell, 



Psychology; Daniel G. Brinton, J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, Jaitoart 20, 1899. 



CONTENTS: 



AiUmnees in Meiliods of Teaching : — 



Zoology: PROFESSOR EDWIN G. CONKLIN 81 



Anatomy: PROFESSOR Geo. S. Huntington.... 85 



Physiology: PROFESSOR Wm. T. Porter 87 



Psychology : PROFESSOR Hugo Munsterberg 91 



Anthropology: Dr. Franz Boas 93 



Botany: PROFESSOR W. F. Ganong 96 



Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of 



• America (I.): Professor J. F. Kebip 100 



Scientific BooJcs : — 



Burnside's Theory of Groups of Finite Order: 

 Professor F. N. Cole. 3Terriman's Elements 

 of Sanitary Engineering : M. Card on Bnsh 

 Fruits : Professor Byron D. Halsted. Hill 

 and Vaughan on the Lower Cretaceous Gryphasus 

 of the Texas Regions: Professor Frederic 

 W. Simonds. Books Received 106 



Scientific Journals and Articles : Ill 



Societies and Academies : — 



The National Geographic Society ; Harvard Uni- 

 versity, Students' Geological Club : J. M. BoUT- 

 WELL. Onondaga Academy of Sciences : H. W. 

 BriICHER. The Academy of Science of St. Louis: 

 Professor William Trelease 112 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 

 Science and Politics: Professor S. W. Wil- 

 LISTON. The Storing of Pamphlets: Profes- 

 sor Charles S. Crandall. Zone Temper- 

 atures: Dr. C. Hart Merriam 114 



Physical Notes : F. C. C 116 



Current Notes on 3Ieteorology : — 



The Windward Islands Hurricane of September, 

 1898; Probable State oftJie Sky along the Path of 

 the Eclipse, May S8, 1900; Notes: R. DeC. 

 Ward 116 



Current Notes on Anthropology : — 



The Oldest Skull-form in Europe ; The Supposed 

 ' Otter Trap ;' Anthropological Study of Feeble- 

 minded Children: Professor D. G. Brinton.. 117 



Scientific Notes and Nems 118 



University and Educational News 120 



MSS. Intended for publicatiou and books, etc., intended 

 f'lr review siiould be sent to the responsible editor, Profes- 

 sor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison-on-Hudson N. Y. 



ADVANCES IN METHODS OF TEACHING.'' 

 ZOOLOGY. 



By advances in teaching I understand the 

 use of desirable methods not now generally 

 employed, for while the common methods 

 of this generation are advances over those 

 of a preceding one a discussion of this fact 

 could have no possible value and only an 

 historical interest to us. 



I take it that the common method of 

 teaching zoology is by means of laboratory 

 work supplemented by lectures or recita- 

 tions, and, further, that both teacher and 

 institution are well equipped for this work ; 

 these are prerequisites, the need of which 

 need not be emphasized here. Beyond and 

 in addition to these common provisions 

 what advances in teaching zoology are both 

 possible and desirable? Many minor fea- 

 tures might be considered, such as certain 

 improvements in laboratory and museum 

 methods, the best sequence of subjects, the 

 relations of lectures to laboratory work, etc.; 

 but I prefer to emphasize two, and only two, 

 main features, viz.: (1) the relations of re- 

 search to teaching, and (2) the study of the 

 whole of zoology. 



I. One of the greatest possible advances 

 in teaching zoology would be the promotion 

 of research work in all institutions of col- 

 lege or university grade and the establish- 

 ment of the closest possible relations be- 



* Discussion before the New York meeting of the 

 American Naturalists and AiBliated Societies, Decem- 

 ber, 1898. 



