SCIENCE 



Editorial Committee : S. Newcomb, Mathematics ; E. S. "Woodwakd, Mecbanics ; E. C. Pickeeinq, 



Astronomy; T. C. Mendenhall, Physics ; K. H. Thurston, Engineering; Ira Remseit, Chemistry; 



J. Le CONTB, Geology; W. M. Davis, Physiography; Henry F. OsBOR^f, Paleontology; W. K. 



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



Britton, Botany; C. S. Minot, Embryology, Histology; H. P. Bowditch, Physiology; 



J. S. Billings, Hygiene; J. McKeen Cattell, Psychology; Daniel G. Bein- 



TON, J. W. Powell, Anthropology. 



Friday, April 21, 1899. 



CONTENTS: 



Othniel Charles Marsh (with Portrait) : De. J. L. 

 WOETMAN 561 



Smne 3Iisapprehensions as to the Simplified Nomen- 

 clature of Anatomy : PROFESSOR BURT G. WIL- 

 DER 566 



The Breeding of Animals at Woods Hole during the 

 3Ionthof September, 1S98 : M. T. Thompson... 581 



Economics in Manufactures : Professor E. H. 

 Thurston 583 



Scientific Books : — 



Sarkness and 3Iorleij on Analytic Functions : 

 Profbssoe James Pieepont. Schnabel's 

 Handbook of Metallurgy : Dr. J. Steuthees. 

 Books received 586 



Scientific Journals and Articles 589 



Societies and Academies : — 



Tlie Anthropological Society of Washington : Dr. 

 J. H. McCoemick. Geological Conference and 

 Students' Club of Harvard University: J. M. 

 Boutwell. The Torrey Botanical Club : Ed- 

 ward S. Burgess 590 



Discussion and Correspondence : — 



Duplication of Geologic Formation Names: De. 

 George M. Dawson. Oh the Names of Certain 

 North American Fossil Vertebrates : O. P. Hay. 

 The Fundamaital Law of Temperature for Gase- 

 ous Celestial Bodies : Professor W. S. Frank- 

 lin 592 



Notes on Inorganic Chemistry : J. L. H 595 



The Naples Zoological Station 596 



Scientific Notes and Neics 597 



University and Educational Neios 600 



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

 tor review shoiUd be sent to the resDonsible editor, Profes- 

 Bor J. McKeen Cattell. Garrlson-on-Hudson N. Y. 



OTHNIEL CHARLES MARSH. 



The last of the famous trio of American 

 vertebrate paleontologists has passed into 

 the unknown, and the rich legacy of 

 discovery and advancement in biological 

 knowledge which they have bequeathed to 

 the world will ever stand as an enduring 

 monument to their untiring energy and 

 greatness in the i-ealm of thought. It 

 seems, therefore, especially fitting that the 

 unveiling of this splendid monument and 

 the final pronouncing of judgment upon the 

 labors of these truly great Americans should 

 take place in the closing years of the cen- 

 tury, notable alike for the variety and 

 brilliancy of its achievements in almost 

 every department of learning. 



At the time when the doctrine of Evolu- 

 tion was finally formulated and brought 

 prominently before the thinking world by 

 the labors of Darwin the direct and positive 

 evidence in favor of such an hypothesis was 

 inconclusive and uncertain. True, it re- 

 ceived more or less powerful support from 

 Mr. Darwin's own particular field of re- 

 search, as w^ell as from the embryological 

 studies which the Germans had brought 

 into especial prominence, but the court of 

 the last resort, the tribunal of final judg- 

 ment in which the case was to be argued 

 and decided was that of the Geological 

 Eecord, or, in other words, a direct appeal 

 to the animals and plants themselves, 

 which had inhabited the earth in times 



