SCIENCE 



Editoeial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. Woodward, Mechanics ; E. C. Pickerikq 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics ; E. H. Thubston, Engineering; Ira Eemsen, Chemistry; 



J. Le Conte, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; 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. Brin- 



TON, J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, April 14, 1899. 



CONTENTS: 



A Sage in Science : President David Stare 

 Jordan 529 



Field- Work of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 

 in 1S9S .— 



JVie Indians of Western Washington : De. Liv- 

 ingston Farrand. Archxological Investiga- 

 tions on the North Pacific Coast of America : 

 Harlan I. Smith. Archxological Investiga- 

 tions on the Amoor River : Geeaed Fowke 532 



On Biological Text-Books and Teachers ; O. F. 

 Cook 541 



Scientific Books : — 



Hastings and Beach's Text Book of General 

 Physics : Peofessoe J. S. Ames. Marr's Prin- 

 ciples of Stratigraphical Geology : Peofessor 

 Henry S. Williams. Mason on the Exami- 

 nation of Wata- : Professor Edwin O. Jor- 

 dan. A Slonograph of the North American Po- 

 tentilleae: Charles E. Bessey 545 



Scientific Journalsand Articles 549 



Societies and Academies : — 



Tlie Scientific Alliance of New York. Geological 

 Society of Washington : Dr. W. F. Moesell. 

 The Philosophical Society of Washington : E. 



D. Preston. Physics CluJ) of New York: 

 A. T. Seymour. Sub-section of Anthropology 

 and Psychology of the Neiv York Academy of 

 Sciences: Professor CHARLES H. Judd 550 



Disctcssion and Correspondence : — 



'The Evolution of Slodesty:' HiEAM M.STAN- 

 LEY. Transmitted Characteristics in a White 

 Angora Cat: Dr. John W. Harshbe8ger. 

 Osmotic Solutions : Peofessoe G. Macloskie 553 



Notes on Physics : — 



Wireless Telegraphy: F. C. C 555 



Botanical Notes : — 



An Elementary Book on Lichens ; A Texas School 

 of Botany; False 'Aids' in Botany; Minne- 

 sota Botanical Studies : Professor Charles 



E. Bessey 555 



The Brain of Hermann von Helmholtz 557 



Scientific Notes and News 557 



University and Educational News 559 



MSS. intended or publication and books, etc., intended 

 for review should bs sent to the responsible editor, Profes- 

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



A SAGE IN SCIENCE.* 



Brooks' lectures on the Foundations of 

 Biology constitute a book that will live as 

 a permanent addition to the common sense 

 of science. It belongs to literature as well 

 as to science. It belongs to philosophy as 

 much as to either, for it is full of that fun- 

 damental wisdom about realities which 

 alone is worthy of the name of philosophy. 

 Writers of literature have been divided into 

 those with quotable sentences, as Emerson 

 and Thoreau, and those whose style runs 

 along without break in the elucidation of 

 matter in hand, as Hawthorne and Irving. 

 To the former class Brooks certainly be- 

 longs. His lectures are full of nuggets of 

 wisdom, products of deep thought as well 

 as of careful observation. There is not an 

 idea fundamental to biology that is not 

 touched and made luminous by some of 

 these sagacious paragraphs. Whether it 

 be to show the significance of some unap- 

 preciated fact, or to illustrate the true 

 meaning of some complex argument, or to 

 brush away the line-spun rubbish of theory, 

 the hand of the master is seen in every 

 line. 



The main lesson of the work is that to 

 believe is not better or nobler or higher 



* The Foundations of Zoology, by William Keith 

 Brooks, Ph.D., LL.D., professor of zoology in the 

 Johns Hopkins University. A course of lectures de- 

 livered at Columbia University on the Principles of 

 Science illustrated by Zoology. New York, The Mac- 

 millan Company, 339 pages ; price, 512.50. 



