SCIENCE 



FRiDAy, October 22, 1920 



CONTENTS 



Institutes of Anthropology : Professor Kakl 

 Pearson 371 



Sulphur as a Fertiliser: Professor Charles 

 A. Shull 376 



Eric Doolittle : Professor Samuel G. Barton. 378 



Soientiflo Events: — 

 Agricultural Worlc of the National Be- 

 search Council; The Proposed Expedition to 

 Asia of the American Museum of Natural 

 History; The Thomas A. Edison Prize; The 

 Population of the United States 379 



Scientifio Notes and News 382 



University and Educational News 385 



Discussion and Correspondence: — 



The Spectrum of Mercury Vapor: Dr. 

 John K. Eobertson. Autopsy of a Black 

 Fish: Dr. G. A. MaoCallum 386 



Quotations : — 

 The National Botanic Garden 387 



A New Biological Journal: H. A. Gleason. . . 387 



Special Articles: — 

 Chromosomal Duplication and Mendelian 

 Phenomena in Datura Mutants: Dr. Albert 

 y. Blakeslee, John Belling, M. E. Farn- 

 HAM 388 



The American Chemical Society: Dr. Charles 

 L. Parsons 390 



The American Mathematical Society: Pro- 

 fessor Arnold Dresden 393 



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

 review should be sent to The Editor of Science, Garriaon-on- 

 Hudson, N. Y. 



INSTITUTES OF ANTHROPOLOGY^ 



The anthropological problems of the present 

 day are so numerous and so pressing that we 

 can afford to select those of the greatest 

 utility. Indeed, the three university insti- 

 tutes of anthropology I have suggested would 

 have to specialize and then work hard to keep 

 abreast of the problems which will crowd 

 upon them. One might take the European 

 races, another Asia and the Pacific, and a 

 third Africa. America in anthropology can 

 well look after itself. In each case we need 

 something on the scale of the Paris Ecole 

 d'Anthropologie, with its seventeen professors 

 and teachers, with its museums and journals. 

 But we want something else — a new con- 

 ception of the range of problems to be dealt 

 with and a new technique. From such 

 schools would pass out men with academic 

 training fit to become officials, diplomatic 

 agents, teachers, missionaries, and traders in 

 Eiu-ope, in Asia or in Africa, men with in- 

 telligent appreciation of and sympathy with 

 the races among whom they proposed to work. 



But this extra-state work, important as it 

 is, is hardly comparable in magnitude with 

 the intra-state work which lies ready to hand 

 for the anthropological laboratory that has 

 the will, the staff and the equipment to take 

 it up efiiciently. In the present condition of 

 affairs it is only too likely that much of this 

 work, being psychometric, will fall into the 

 hands of the psychologist, whereas it is es- 

 sentially the fitting work of the anthropolo- 

 gist, who should come to the task, if fitly 

 trained, with a knowledge of comparative 

 material and of the past history, mental and 

 physical, of mankind, on which his present 

 faculties so largely depend. The danger has 



1 Concluding part of the address of the presi- 

 dent of the Anthropological Section of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, Car- 

 diff, 1920. 



