SCIENCE 



Editobial Committee : S. Nkwcomb, Mathematics ; R. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickering, 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics; R. H. Thurston, Engineering; Ira Ekmsen, 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. Osborn, General Biology; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology; 



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



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



Friday, Fbbexjaey 3, 1899. 



CONTENTS: 



Frontal Horn on Aceralherium incisivum (with 

 Platel) : Professor Henry F. Osborn 161 



Report concerning the Official Stale Bureaus con- 

 nected with the Johns Hopkins University: PRO- 

 FESSOR William Bullock Clark 162 



The Biological Stations of Brittanjj : Dr. John H. 

 Gerould 165 



Notes on the Times of Breeding of some Common 

 Neio England Nemerteans : Dr. W. E. Coe 167 



The Columbia ileeting of the Society for Plant Mor- 

 phology and Physiology : Professor W. F. 

 Ganong 169 



Eleventh Annual Meeting of the American Folk-lore 

 Society: W. W. Newell 173 



Scientific Books : — 



Keilhack's Kalender fiir Geologen, Palaontologen 

 und Mineralogen : J. B. Woodworth. Webster 

 on the Chinch Bug: Professor T. D. A. 

 COCKERELL. Newth's Mlanual of Chemical Anal- 

 ysis : Dr. Henry Fay. Recent Publications of 

 the U. S. Geological Survey. Books Receied 174 



Scientific Journals and Articles 178 



Societies and Academies : — 



Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters: 

 Dr. a. S. Flint, the Ohio Academy of Science: 

 Professor R. C. Osburn. Entomological So- 

 ciety of Washington: Dr. L. O. Howard. 

 The Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia : Dr. 

 Edw. J. Nolan. Zoological Club of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago: MARY M. StuRGES, Pro- 

 fessorE. S. Lillie 179 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Tlie Storing of Pamphlets: PROFESSOR WiNSLOW 

 Upton 184 



Notes on Inorganic Chemistry : J. L. H 185 



Current Notes on A nihropology : — 



Bad Form in Anthropological Writings ; The 

 Mangyans of Mindoro ; The Jew and the Gypsy : 

 Professor D. G. Brinton 185 



Agricultural Education in Russia 186 



2he International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.. 187 



Scientific Notes and News 188 



University and Educational News 192 



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

 for review siiould be sent to the responsible editor, Profes- 

 eor J. MoKeen Cattell. Garrison-on-Hudson N. Y. 



FRONTAL HORN ON ACERATHERIUM IN- 

 CISIVUM. 

 RELATION OF THIS TYPE TO ELASMOTHEEIUM. 



In the classical collection of the Museum 

 of Darmstadt there are the two type skulls 

 of Aceratherium incisivum, Kaup, which have 

 hardly been disturbed since the death of that 

 distinguished paleontologist. Through the 

 kindness of Professor G. Richard Lepsius, 

 the writer was recently enabled to carefully 

 examine these skulls, which are in a fragile 

 condition. A slight rugosity was observed 

 upon the frontal bones just behind their 

 junction with the nasals, and a very careful 

 examination demonstrated to both Professor 

 Lepsius and the writer the undoubted pres- 

 ence of a rudimentary frontal horn in this 

 typical hornless type. Even more distinct- 

 ive proof of the existence of a horn is afforded 

 bj' the characteristic convergence towards 

 the center of the rugosity of a number of 

 small grooves which indicate the course of 

 the blood vessels which supplied the horn. 

 The support of a horn is further indicated 

 by a distinct swelling of the skull above the 

 orbits which is observed with especial dis- 

 tinctness in the profile view. This swelling 

 will probably be found to consist of a thick- 

 ening of the frontals at this point. 



This discovery is of the very greatest in- 

 terest. In the first place it practically 

 removes this tj'pical Acerathere from the 

 group to which it has given its name and 

 places it among the Rhinoceroses. Second, 



